Oy, this has been a busy week. Not only am I trying to wrap stuff up before going on vacation but a lot of changes are going on at work. Some good some bad.
I sorta got stabbed in the back by the President of our Union chapter today. Not only did she make inaccurate assumptions, she blatantly accused me of sabatoging the efforts of the chapter. Needless to say, I didn’t take it too lightly. Of course, if she actually did some work I wouldn’t be so sensitive about it. 1) she isn’t on a single committee 1, 2) she refuses to setup her email even though she has a new computer2. This, of course, often finds her out of the loop as the rest of the officers, including myself, update each other by email.
The new director is making a lot of changes and some of them aren’t going over so well. And while I can understand the difficulty behind the decisions some of them are necessary. It is understood that we will never agree w/all of her decisions however, we still have to respect each other. How can we hope to effect lasting changes if we are busy fighting amongst ourselves. We are at a pivotal moment where we can rise to the occasion and make the big decisions or we can wallow in our pettiness and remain on the sidelines watching.
After the antics today, I’m losing hope of our chapter rising to anything but a bitch fight.
1 Myself and the secretary are the only two on any of the committees. I’m on 4 and the secretary is on 2.
2 Ignorance is not an excuse. Especially, when I offered to not only setup her computer but to give her one of my available emails.
You sabataging the Union chapter. What is she on? Does she have an ounce of common sense? Is she Blind? In any event where our you off for you vacation…local, back to Texas or to some other location out of state? Have fun!
Very impressed with the footnotes! NICE touch!
Sounds like it is either time for a good old fashioned memo; or pass a motion that everyone have email access in order to stay in the loop….
Sorry about all that crap you had to deal with….
Well, you could tell her the e-mail address BackstabbingUnionBitch@yahoo.com is available. Her refusal to set up e-mail, which takes all of five minutes, shows she’s not the right person to be president. Next elections, run against her. You’d win.
Mike – that made me laugh thanks for the smile. She actually apologized today and agreed she was out of line. Now, If I could just get her to setup her email….
Well…it’s cool that she apologized. That’s a step forward.
You’ve been busy with work and here I was thinking that you were just still recovering from the Folsom thing.
Committees are only good for one thing…..to waste time. I’m on two committees at the college. I swear, we spend most of our meetings talking about what sub-committees we need to make in order to do ANY work. I often just wanna scream and run out of the meeting!
I feel for you, Moby! *big hug*
4 committees where do you find the time. You really should question her on acqusing you of backstabbing. Best of luck and have fun on Vacation!