tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141703.post495902089377034972..comments2024-02-21T17:03:05.861-08:00Comments on Petrelis Files: Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08359712473083091475noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141703.post-45650595826519488622010-11-20T19:53:51.430-08:002010-11-20T19:53:51.430-08:00now that you mention it, i do wonder what his hiv ...now that you mention it, i do wonder what his hiv status is. if he is poz, i would hope he would have no problem going public with that info.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08359712473083091475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141703.post-65589752926711534052010-11-20T18:41:38.830-08:002010-11-20T18:41:38.830-08:00Do you mean to say that SFAF needed to pay a SEARC...Do you mean to say that SFAF needed to pay a SEARCH firm to find Neil Giuliano?? DUH! Lots of people in the gay or HIV world knew that he was the former E.D. of GLAAD and was out of work. Any idiot in the gay community could have steered him to the job, or he could have responded to a classified ad or ad on their website. <br /><br />That's just great; now vital services for people actually living with HIV have to be cut or remain low because "AIDS, Inc."'s darling, the SFAF, needs to pay a private, for-profit executive search firm THOUSANDS of dollars to find an out-of-work executive who wasn't exactly hiding. What kind of client services could that have funded instead? Any employee of SFAF could have done a Google search or read Facebook and narrowed down the Short List of candidates without having to pay an extra cent for it. What a waste of funds that could have gone to client services. Typical AIDS, Inc. money-wasting to make sure that the likes of Giuliano and whoever owns "Boyden Global Executive Search" stay nice and rich, while the clients of SFAF stay nice and poor. <br /><br />And speaking of people actually living with HIV, YES, it DOES matter that the people RUNNING an AIDS organization actually BE people living with HIV, or at least VERY experienced with it. There are plenty who fit that bill over 30 years of the epidemic; there's no need to hire someone with NO background in HIV. They (poz executives) DO exist, and you don't need an expensive "search firm" to find them, either. Out-of-touch, ignorant-about-HIV executives, even the gay ones, really don't "get it" the way people living with HIV or those who really are experienced working in an ASO do. And it will show, I'm sure, as time goes on. He'll make SFAF just as miserable and ineffective as everyone knows GLAAD was. I sure hope SFAF gets its "money's worth". It's safe to say their poor clients sure won't! <br /><br />DOWN with "AIDS, Inc." and their rich, over-paid, elite excecutives, while their line staff is told "we're a non-profit, so we don't pay much" and their clients are told, "times are tough; we have to cut back services". (Yeah, except for payments to useless executive search firms). <br /><br />HIV supportive social services ARE still important, but ASO's will NEVER have credibility if they keep screaming that AIDS/HIV is still an "emergency" to promote fund-raising (for large executive salaries) to the ignorant, and hiring people who can't even spell HIV just because they are a rich former executive who might as well continue to be one fleecing yet another organization.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com