My point is that if we are talking about this date because somehow there is going to be some magical bonus issued....
I mean, I think the context is important. If we are asking someone to appear, setting these dates has clearly not worked. What I would like us to do, if the intention of the committee is to call somebody, is to make sure that we get the person to show up, and not just say “here are the dates we're going to give you”, and then it doesn't work, and then we move on to the next thing.
I have said this before and I'll say it again: setting a date has clearly not delivered us the folks from Bell, and that was a summons. If we're going to do this, we have to give people enough time to show up. The clerk is doing her work to make sure that people can show up, but this is an important consideration—