Please tell me USATF is kidding!

YOU GUYS ! DON'T ACT DUMB AND SURPRISED AT THIS. YOU KNOW USATF IS A 100% CORRUPT "PATRONAGE" SYSTEM. THEY HIRE HE/SHE WHO CASTS THE VOTE FOR THEM. SO THAT THEY STACK THE DECK, GET VOTED BACK IN, THEN START THE PATRONAGE CYCLE ALL OVER AGAIN. THAT'S WHY YOU SEE PINKOWSKI, MASBACK, CHAPLAIN, HIGHTOWER, FINKE, WITTENBERG, ROE, ETC. ALWAYS AT EACH OTHER'S MEETS/MARATHONS/RACES LIVING LIKE THE PRINCE OF MONACO. SO DON'T ACT LIKE YOU ARE SO FLABBERGASTED AT THEM HIRING ANOTHER DO-NOTHING SUCK-UP. IT'S YOUR USATF. IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT. KICK THE BASTARDS OUT OF OFFICE. YOUR $20 GETS YOU ONE VOTE. NOT THE RIGHT TO PISS AND MOAN !

help,stop complaining about this guy

let's all get on the USATF payroll!

it's a gravvy train, babay!

what do you think these yahoos make over there? this new hire cant be making what raith made, right?

Since this job probably pays about $30k (and you have to live in Indianapolis), who did you think they were going to get? People can work for McDonald's and get paid more than most of the USATF staff.

And you get what you pay for.

Tryon Creek wrote:

Hey, if they can take a guy who was the commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association (and forced to resign from that post) and make him the head of FEMA, this doesn't seem like much of a stretch at all.

good point!

Financial Analyst wrote:

Since this job probably pays about $30k (and you have to live in Indianapolis), who did you think they were going to get? People can work for McDonald's and get paid more than most of the USATF staff.

And you get what you pay for.

You should have a look at salaries for the National Office. I would wager the budget has increased 10 fold over the past decade.

You should have a look at salaries for the National Office. I would wager the budget has increased 10 fold over the past decade.[/quote]

You're absolutely right. ALL national staff are overpaid with the exception of a few clerical-type staff. You get what you pay for???? Not in this case. Somebody please tell me who, if anybody at the national office actually earns their salary.

Anybody?

I like stories.

"Somebody please tell me who, if anybody at the national office actually earns their salary."

My experiences with Andy Martin have been favorable.

I'll echo the below. I do not know him personally, but have had several conversations with him and heard him speak to some meetings. He is intelligent, articulate and has good communication skills. Not bad for a start. Give him some slack.

Smart, personable guy wrote:

The guy has worked his ass off, including this year at USATF nationals, managing a large part of the on field operations.

He's qualified for what the job calls for and has experience.

Plus he's actually a well spoken, not a good old boy, guy.

Somebody please tell me who, if anybody at the national office actually earns their salary.

Anybody?

Adam Shmenk (sp?) seemed to be running the TV side of things in Boston and Indy at the National Champs and at Penn Relays - I bet he wasn't making more than $50k. I heard the job of TV Supremo was paying around $100k. Weird that they would hire someone to do what their own staff were already doing.

Make that three votes for Andy Martin and zero for the rest of the office. Truth be known they should make Sherry Quack Executive director. She does all the work in that office anyway.

He probably got the job the same way they hand out important government jobs, by being an old college buddy!

Andy could be the only hire in that office that was ever actually qualified for the job they do.

What is the update on this dude?

Hard worker, loves all aspects of the sport & knows his stuff. Willing to put in long hours to make sure that every event & athlete gets the respect they deserve. One of the better hires since Craig started.

While the lifeblood of USATF is the peons who run it from their low-paid clerical-type "positions"....the salaries of the "egos" and the other affirmative action selected "chiefs" got increased mightily again this year.

What aof USATF with the help of a bro who got in ahead of you, and is keeping it cracked open for you...then whine and demand till you get fat-assed salaries with no real work. What an organization.