right, it's alllll the fault of the staff and volunteers who worked the professor cup...
after all, if OP hadn't held a prof cup with prizes, dude would never have done this, it's not his fault!!11!
/sarcasm
'mom
Did I say this whole situation was "alllll the fault of the staff and volunteers" fault? Or that it was ALL of the individual staff members who are responsible? Did you not read where I said that P!P accepting blame for allowing it to happen does NOT absolve Mr. Aires?
The thing is, P!P, as an
organization, is responsible for the actions of their employees and staff. Individuals WITHIN that organization may not be responsible for other individual's actions, but the organization as a WHOLE is. This is the very foundation of, well, organizations; individual members represent the organization they're working for in every way, good and bad, and as such it is the organization's responsibility to ensure their employees and staff
properly represent them by their actions (and to reprimand those who don't follow the rules and thus make the organization look bad). Just as, as the head of a family, parents are responsible for the actions of their children (at least until they turn 18). Unless you're going to tell me that the actions of an individual employee/staff/volunteer does NOT reflect anything on the organization/company that hires them? C'mon.
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PokePop:
For those blaming the staff:
Yes, someone screwed up.
Will that person or persons be publicly humiliated over it?
No, that would be ridiculous. I'm sure they are kicking themselves over it.
I wouldn't expect anything else. Maybe being figured individually and be made a SPECIFIC example of, publicly at least, would not be best for P!P's public relations. As such, it would be enough to state "those who were responsible for letting it happen will be spoken to, and we apologize for their actions". INTERNALLY, however, I'm sure P!P will state to their staff "it was wrong for Mr. John Doe and Mrs. Jane Smith to do what they did, and so we are going to make sure this doesn't happen again". Of course, however P!P deals with it internally is their business.
They made the mistake of trusting someone.
If someone's going to make a mistake, that's the best one to make.
That frankly is the ONLY thing I would blame P!P for... or other things related to that (such as either not having a system to check up on a person's Professor status, or the P!P not enforcing that system upon the staff).
Will Pokemon take steps to ensure something like this doesn't happen again?
Darn sure they will. However, I don't expect them to come onto a public message board and outline them. Especially since they just learned about this happening.
I sure hope they do! Again, the last thing we need to see is P!P allowing this to happen again; once is a mistake, twice is deliberate. As such, I doubt P!P needs anything like this to happen to get people to question the P!P's commitment to ensure a fun, safe and FAIR play environment. I want to be able to trust them on this, and I'm not going to be the kind of jerk who says "but this issue just makes me question that"... however I will say that I trust that P!P will do the right thing and accept responsibility for this happening.
I just hope that whatever they do doesn't, as a side effect, punish those that work events all year long.
That would be the biggest tragedy.
I agree too. There's no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater; it's obvious that it was only INDIVIDUALS within P!P that screwed up, and although I feel that P!P--the organization, that is--should take responsibility for those individuals actions, I wouldn't expect the P!P to reprimand EVERYONE in P!P for those individuals' actions.
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This is the extent that I would consider the P!P's fault. As such, I HIGHLY disagree that it's the P!P's fault for anything MORE than this, as well as the idea that it's not the P!P's fault at ALL for letting this happen.
And I hope I've made myself perfectly clear on this (albeit in a fairly typically Nick15 long-winded manner).
