(10-06-2020, 04:59 PM)Oles Wrote: Yeah don't agree with GMs/HO having any sort of PT pass. PT pass was originally intended as an extra thing to get certain jobs more interest, especially those that were either A) doing a lot of work that would cause it to be hard to keep up with a player (like simmer where you have to spend many hours doing work in the file and sim) or B) jobs that do extremely crucial work that were not getting a lot of applicants, such as Updater.
The optics of HO/GMs voting on whether to give themselves a pay raise is incredibly funny, because it looks like y'all are patting yourself on the back for a good job. These passes were never meant to be handed out willy nilly, instead a commodity for only the worst of league work. Now any HO or GM member gets free UW even if they may not be doing the work required. 0 safeguards have been put in place to prevent HO/GM members from just coasting and getting a free ultimus week, and this vote shows they will probably vote on PT pass in the future and get it. Might as well give every job PT pass at this point.
I won't speak too much to the GM portion of this, because I think the UW pass for GMs makes sense. Having more time and energy to put into draft prep and other off-season moves should be a positive for the league.
As for HO, we do a lot of work. To use your words, crucial work, and work that can make it hard to keep up with a player. So the idea that giving HO a full PT pass is unreasonable isn't something I can agree with. Now, on a personal level, a PT pass is actually useless for me as a multi-league user, so the decision doesn't actually impact me. But HO has an incredibly high workload (and related, an incredibly high burnout rate) and the idea that HO could just coast isn't one that has much basis in reality. If a member of HO isn't doing their job, they don't remain in HO, plain and simple. We have too much work to be doing to let people be in HO for a free ride.
