"Jimmy fatigue" Options

[thekohser]

Even the Foundation recognizes "Jimmy fatigue" (page 13).

[EricBarbour]

Excuse me, but you have to remember that this presentation is one of those little "ohgodohgod
the sky is falling, you've got to give us more money to keep the servers up!!" monkey-shows
that Sue has to put on every year, to scare their large institutional donors into coughing up the green.

That is how she earns that $250k-plus salary.

And in case you hadn't noticed, the Sloan Foundation barfed up another $3 million recently.

This post has been edited by EricBarbour:

[thekohser]

Excuse me, but you have to remember that this presentation is one of those little "ohgodohgod
the sky is falling, you've got to give us more money to keep the servers up!!" monkey-shows
that Sue has to put on every year, to scare their large institutional donors into coughing up the green.

That is how she earns that $250k-plus salary.

And in case you hadn't noticed, the Sloan Foundation barfed up another $3 million recently.

To be fair, I should correct two questionable interpretations of data here.

First, the WMF is actually scaling back the proportion of its funding that comes from large institutional donors. If anything, these "monkey-shows" are intended to rally the faithful, inspiring more small, individual donations.

Second, Sue's total annual compensation package has exceeded $240,000, but not $250,000.