MST Office Official Prestige Awards
Read the FAQ at the bottom of this page
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Prestige from 2006 on is available here
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MST Prestige Frequently Asked Questions
| Q: | I can't find my prestige! |
| A: | The MST office receives its authority to award national prestige from the Master Coordinator, now known as the Club Director. Between April-2003 and June-2004, that authority was only extended to the Master Storyteller and the MST's Chief of Staff. Unless the MST or CoS specifically awarded national prestige, it was not awarded. |
| Q: | But it's in this GSA report that I got a copy of! |
| A: | Every other officer in the MST office - as with any member in the Camarilla - has the ability to recommend another member for national prestige. Prestige recommendations do not equal prestige awards - an award can follow a recommendation, but it's not a given. In many instances, GSA/GVST reports weren't properly submitted to the MST or his Chief of Staff. In those instances, the recommendations never translated into awards, especially when there was a breakdown in the chain of command. |
| Q: | So why do some officers have prestige, but others don't? |
| A: | This usually depends on two things: proper reporting of reports and recommendations up the chain, and awards being made by the MST or the CoS. If a GSA report never made it into the right GVST/AMST report, and was never reported properly up to the MST or Chief of Staff, then no prestige can be awarded. When this unfortunate state of things was discovered, we dug up all the reports we could find, and tried to reconstruct a reasonably equal distribution of prestige for reports provided, and indications of work done in the reports. This often didn't equal the recommendations in the reports, since this was all retroactively done to provide some compensation, rather than being an accurate ongoing reward of verifiable work. |
| Q: | I'm sure I was awarded a different amount! I have this email from the MST or CoS! |
| A: | If you have a verifiable award from the MST or Chief of Staff, contact the AMST Administration and CC the MST's Chief of Staff with details. Their email addresses are on the MST website. |
| Q: | This is dreadfully unfair! |
| A: | You're not entirely wrong. The ball was dropped in a couple of places. GSAs didn't receive proper instructions how much they were meant to award, for what, when, and to whom. Some people in the admin hierarchy didn't keep proper track of what was going on. The G*/AM* chain was poorly organized, and there was little overall administrative effort to keep the office operating smoothly. It was difficult, if not impossible, to recognize who was doing what type of work - and of what quality. Responsibilities overlapped. Authorities clashed. The Settings office was heavily restructured in June-2004, removing most positions for exactly those reasons. Although we've dealt with most of the GSA backlog, if you've got a record of a GVST or AMST Report post-June 2003 in which prestige was recommended, with some proof that it was also awarded, contact the AMST Admin and the MST's Chief of Staff. We may have missed prestige backlogs, and we'll do our best to integrate them into the archives. |
| Q: | All my national is now gone! ARGH! |
| A: | Don't panic. If you think you have a legitimate claim to an award, or if something fell through the cracks (which is entirely possible), mail the officers listed above and we'll see what we can do. It's entirely possible that we haven't found it all. |