Postby Elizabeth » Mon May 13, 2019 2:06 pm
Hi everyone! I survived the weekend! Friday, I skipped dance class in favor of urgent care for my cough and am doing better. The potentially problematic animal org people skipped volunteering at the cat show Sunday.
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The drama isn't over yet, because he wants to talk to the board. I support him on this, because members of the org and members of the public do have a right to attend and speak at our board meetings. He has valid points he wants to address, but nothing is going to be accomplished if he comes in and just yells at the board for a while. He can sound delusional sometimes and many of his statements call his credibility in question. I tried to tell him to tone it down, but he didn't want to be "fake" and says he was trained in confrontational management. I don't know if confrontational management works in general, but it won't work if you are not a manager! When he was VP, he expected to have the ultimate say-so in everything based on this "confrontational management" style, but (1) VP does not have ultimate (or any) authority to start handing out orders and walking papers to volunteers (2) the org has no intention of hiring or using a confrontational manager, assuming such a thing even exists. I tried to explain that by calling the leader of another org a malignant sociopath, it undermines his credibility more than it affects hers. It also does not matter a hill of beans that his father and sister are psychiatrists, it does not give his diagnosis any credibility. I hope I convinced him to stick to facts by presenting that as a very sneaky way to get what he wants. I asked him why he wanted to detonate a nuclear warhead when a little poison in the drinking water would do. These are, of course, metaphors, not real actions. The warhead is yelling at the board. The poison is a "sneaky, ninja-like" needling with facts from which the board would be able to come to its own conclusions. I mentioned that if people came to the conclusions on their own, they are much more likely to act on them. He can stick to reporting the documented acts of other people and observations on that person's interactions with potential and existing adopters and fosters. He likes to be thought of as a sneaky ninja type. However, he also wants recognition, but if you go about things his way, no one knows what you have done to recognize it! The thing he wants changed is to get the intake committee to approve more street cat intakes. A perfectly valid, desirable, and achievable goal that will not be accomplished by accusing the board of being obstructionists out to get him personally. (Note: It is true that one member hates him and would reject anything he asked for. The other two pretty much follow her lead. However, pointing that out would not be as effective as appealing to our common goal of getting cats off the streets.)
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Well, that was a long rant. I went back and added "skippable" to it. Because I was called in for the potential Sunday drama, I missed church. I would have missed Sunday School except that it was a going away party for one of our long term attendees. DD17 did homework all weekend. This afternoon, I need to buy and add transmission fluid and make a DPC. I have so many payroll projects, I spent the morning organizing and consolidating my intermingled notes.
Tonight, I must check to make sure a payment was received, do some LOLs, get a document hole punched and into a notebook, and set up a roast pork for cooking in the crockpot tomorrow. I think I will divide it in half. I've had two annoying harassing calls from Canadian/US Pharmacy. It is almost always the same guy calling. Today he ended with call with "bye, baby".
In our machine count, I can add my computer. But does that count as one, or do I also count the servers I get data from?
And the battery fell out of my remote mouse, so life was frustrating until I could retrieve that from under furniture and get the mouse working again - need to keep that little machine together, for sure.
