Ben and Christina have different types of experience. Ben's experience, I'd argue, is more relevant to the position than Christina's experience as advertised. Whether or not someone without a math or financial background can become effective in a TRS role, I think it's fair to point out that Ben has worked in a capacity similar to what t…
Ben and Christina have different types of experience. Ben's experience, I'd argue, is more relevant to the position than Christina's experience as advertised. Whether or not someone without a math or financial background can become effective in a TRS role, I think it's fair to point out that Ben has worked in a capacity similar to what this job entails. I think that experience is more valuable than experience working in an office specific to our pension but doing much different types of work. Add to that that Ben has demonstrated his expertise in calculating, designing, and implementing member-facing presentations the likes of which we've never seen in typical TRS events, and it's clear that by all accounts, he is well suited for the job. Whether someone can also be good at the job, despite not having Ben's experience, is besides the point. We know that Ben will be good, because he's directly shown it to us. To me, that's valuable - and it's one of many reasons I'm voting for Ben today.
I'm going to disagree with you because in fact all of our teacher member trustees have ben teachers that started in the pension department working with members. Ben has never done that.
As far as the argument that Ben is making presentations, the, "likes of which we've never seen" is just plain silly. All of the videos that are on the UFT website regarding pension were done by Christina. Have you bothered to watch any of them? All of the HFC workshop presentations both Non-medicare and Medicare were done by Christina. All of the different Tier Workshops were done by Christina. They've all got pertinent information that is explained in a precise and CLEAR way.
All in all, what you're saying Nick is that Ben has shown us that he's really good at making Power point presentations. I love a good power point but I'm still voting for Christina.
To work for the pension department, realistically Ben would have to join Unity, which would defeat the purpose of his candidacy. Ben has Wall Street experience, but some Unity people have suggested that communicating things to members is more the gig, hence me mentioning his presentation skills (to me, those are far less relevant than his financial and quantitative skills). Here's that presentation - you'll notice for the first time we actually have an accurate quantification of how much Tier 6 loses relative to Tier 4. For members who start right out of college, we're talking over a million dollars and almost a decade of their lives. Read more here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MUG48GVRmxHWUy-2kqfTMuxJvc5uprCz/view
Ben and Christina have different types of experience. Ben's experience, I'd argue, is more relevant to the position than Christina's experience as advertised. Whether or not someone without a math or financial background can become effective in a TRS role, I think it's fair to point out that Ben has worked in a capacity similar to what this job entails. I think that experience is more valuable than experience working in an office specific to our pension but doing much different types of work. Add to that that Ben has demonstrated his expertise in calculating, designing, and implementing member-facing presentations the likes of which we've never seen in typical TRS events, and it's clear that by all accounts, he is well suited for the job. Whether someone can also be good at the job, despite not having Ben's experience, is besides the point. We know that Ben will be good, because he's directly shown it to us. To me, that's valuable - and it's one of many reasons I'm voting for Ben today.
I'm going to disagree with you because in fact all of our teacher member trustees have ben teachers that started in the pension department working with members. Ben has never done that.
As far as the argument that Ben is making presentations, the, "likes of which we've never seen" is just plain silly. All of the videos that are on the UFT website regarding pension were done by Christina. Have you bothered to watch any of them? All of the HFC workshop presentations both Non-medicare and Medicare were done by Christina. All of the different Tier Workshops were done by Christina. They've all got pertinent information that is explained in a precise and CLEAR way.
All in all, what you're saying Nick is that Ben has shown us that he's really good at making Power point presentations. I love a good power point but I'm still voting for Christina.
To work for the pension department, realistically Ben would have to join Unity, which would defeat the purpose of his candidacy. Ben has Wall Street experience, but some Unity people have suggested that communicating things to members is more the gig, hence me mentioning his presentation skills (to me, those are far less relevant than his financial and quantitative skills). Here's that presentation - you'll notice for the first time we actually have an accurate quantification of how much Tier 6 loses relative to Tier 4. For members who start right out of college, we're talking over a million dollars and almost a decade of their lives. Read more here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MUG48GVRmxHWUy-2kqfTMuxJvc5uprCz/view