Ready to throw in the towel...
This is getting annoying.
This is getting annoying.
I went to the rescheduled munch board meeting last Monday. Turns out the only voting members there were myself and the board President. P, the board secretary and uber-member was there also, and even though she is a non-voting member, she decreed that the meeting would continue.
I found out a few days earlier that she is a permanent board member, and that even though she is a non-voting member, the munch charter gives her and her husband (who isn't even a member of the board any more) final say on all board decisions. They also have the power to kick out any board member at will, and ban anyone they wish from the munch. Makes me wonder why there is a board at all.
The treasurer wasn't there; she was on vacation. But that's ok, she's a friend of P's (::rolls eyes::). Another member (E)wasn't there for unknown reasons... mildly annoying, but I understand that sometimes "life happens".
The good news was that the meeting it took -only- an hour and a half, of which half an hour was the President and Pauline ruminating on the costs and difficulties of getting a full time meeting space that we owned outright. Since we have less than a thousand in the bank, this discussion was highly theoretical. But it still took a half hour (not to mention we had re-hashed this issue a few meetings back...)
I leave as soon as the meeting was over; the house reeks of cat urine and dog feces. The next day P wrote a nasty, sarcastic letter to E, very rude in tone. I wrote to her, gently suggesting that it was a bit harsher than she had meant it to be. I wanted to give her an "out" to save face. I also mentioned that the munch protocols she was so fond of quoting (and which I had been cited for a couple of times)stated that all board member need to be courteous to one another at all times.
I shouldn't have bothered. She wrote back saying that she had meant to be sarcastic and nasty, though she claimed she was also "courteous" (wtf?) and hadn't written down what she had really felt, as she was "furious". If a person missing a meeting is enough to make her furious, she really needs another hobby.
So there you have it. The board can't decide anything that P or Master Z don't agree with. P can do whatever she wants, as well as her friends (such as the Evil Doctor K, who assaulted my Lady M). If I try to defend anyone or anything, I am creating "drama".
I wrote the board president, talking about how it isn't correct for the munch secretary to dictate the board agenda and meeting times (she canceled the next scheduled board meeting on her own), and he needs to have a talk with her. I told him it wasn't good for the group for her to undercut him like that.
His response? An "unofficial" official letter saying that my performance as a board member was unsatisfactory, and I needed to write 6 lifestyle related articles for the group message board in order to get back in his good graces.
To quote Bender T. Robot, "Bite my shiny metal ass"
This is getting annoying.
I went to the rescheduled munch board meeting last Monday. Turns out the only voting members there were myself and the board President. P, the board secretary and uber-member was there also, and even though she is a non-voting member, she decreed that the meeting would continue.
I found out a few days earlier that she is a permanent board member, and that even though she is a non-voting member, the munch charter gives her and her husband (who isn't even a member of the board any more) final say on all board decisions. They also have the power to kick out any board member at will, and ban anyone they wish from the munch. Makes me wonder why there is a board at all.
The treasurer wasn't there; she was on vacation. But that's ok, she's a friend of P's (::rolls eyes::). Another member (E)wasn't there for unknown reasons... mildly annoying, but I understand that sometimes "life happens".
The good news was that the meeting it took -only- an hour and a half, of which half an hour was the President and Pauline ruminating on the costs and difficulties of getting a full time meeting space that we owned outright. Since we have less than a thousand in the bank, this discussion was highly theoretical. But it still took a half hour (not to mention we had re-hashed this issue a few meetings back...)
I leave as soon as the meeting was over; the house reeks of cat urine and dog feces. The next day P wrote a nasty, sarcastic letter to E, very rude in tone. I wrote to her, gently suggesting that it was a bit harsher than she had meant it to be. I wanted to give her an "out" to save face. I also mentioned that the munch protocols she was so fond of quoting (and which I had been cited for a couple of times)stated that all board member need to be courteous to one another at all times.
I shouldn't have bothered. She wrote back saying that she had meant to be sarcastic and nasty, though she claimed she was also "courteous" (wtf?) and hadn't written down what she had really felt, as she was "furious". If a person missing a meeting is enough to make her furious, she really needs another hobby.
So there you have it. The board can't decide anything that P or Master Z don't agree with. P can do whatever she wants, as well as her friends (such as the Evil Doctor K, who assaulted my Lady M). If I try to defend anyone or anything, I am creating "drama".
I wrote the board president, talking about how it isn't correct for the munch secretary to dictate the board agenda and meeting times (she canceled the next scheduled board meeting on her own), and he needs to have a talk with her. I told him it wasn't good for the group for her to undercut him like that.
His response? An "unofficial" official letter saying that my performance as a board member was unsatisfactory, and I needed to write 6 lifestyle related articles for the group message board in order to get back in his good graces.
To quote Bender T. Robot, "Bite my shiny metal ass"