tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post1594612183625927053..comments2023-11-02T03:51:39.411-04:00Comments on FISHY2ME: Committee Me Notfishyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169980377922293950noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-23577875363265544352009-12-10T14:50:05.020-05:002009-12-10T14:50:05.020-05:00Fishy!! COME BACK --mah link was not workin'--...Fishy!! COME BACK --mah link was not workin'--I fixed the PAris link--youse gonna love it!Aunty Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13868780211706866610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-73398645758815628812009-12-05T09:21:15.117-05:002009-12-05T09:21:15.117-05:00Note: The Scary Troll wasn't me. This guy made...Note: The Scary Troll wasn't me. This guy made me look sociable.hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04341805107057968097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-53163587965041413392009-12-05T08:09:02.968-05:002009-12-05T08:09:02.968-05:00Overheard at a Church-Charity event:
Curious Cath...Overheard at a Church-Charity event:<br /><br />Curious Cathy: Why was the Troll put in charge of this? He's scary.<br /><br />Reverend Smart: Because it's important and none of the busybody<br />know-it-alls will bother him or his team.hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04341805107057968097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-26615160636905775652009-12-04T19:36:35.253-05:002009-12-04T19:36:35.253-05:00Egads, they sound like horrible women! Reminds me...Egads, they sound like horrible women! Reminds me of the time I went to help for an event and La Diva was being directed how to TAPE a paper table cloth on with two other women. Yep, THREE WOMEN to tape a table cloth on. When the one started telling me HOW to do it, I just smiled at her and said, "you know what? It's all yours!" and off I trounced to the bar across the street, had a drink, and called my husband to come and pick me up!<br /><br />Would love to see how your tree came out! Don't let the dictators get you down!<br /><br />Also, I wanted to remind you of the culinary throwdown for Dec 9! Hope you can participate!<br /><br /><a href="http://ladivacucina.blogspot.com/2009/11/culinary-throwdown-challenge-salt.html" rel="nofollow">Click here for info</a><br /><br />Have a great weekend!LaDivaCucinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06000430029590301972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-83361772950548939542009-12-03T10:01:40.083-05:002009-12-03T10:01:40.083-05:00I've done my share of volunteering AND organiz...I've done my share of volunteering AND organizing volunteers and agree that no one can be more dictatorial or have a greater sense of entitlement than a volunteer. Especially a Volunteer With A Title. Ugh. Then again, charitable work is necessary work, so sometimes, you just gotta grin and bear it and bust through the caca. And, yes, por favor, a photo of your tree!moihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-71151485943503056372009-12-03T07:52:44.689-05:002009-12-03T07:52:44.689-05:00Kym,
You have just described what I call the &quo...Kym,<br />You have just described what I call the "hollow people". Those coreless beings who can only define themselves by their trappings because there is nothing else to them. For those empty ones there is no such thing as enough recognition, enough self promotion, enough trappings, enough PROPSs to help them maintain their illusions of self. <br /><br />I hate hearing one of these wretches was a facillitator in your decision to exit a job, and job family ,you loved. On the other hand I hope the new gig is great for you personally and professionally. <br />The good news Kym, is you are <br />unlikely to be teetring on a ladder, getting judged by the blind, when you reach my age.fishyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169980377922293950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-34392740588321551272009-12-02T21:20:05.834-05:002009-12-02T21:20:05.834-05:00Oh dear lord. Fishy. Just who the heck are these ...Oh dear lord. Fishy. Just who the heck are these women? Are they well off bored housewives looking for a "cause"?<br /><br />I've worked with my fair share of committee women, and trust me when I say, I feel your pain. <br /><br />The most recent witch, er, committee woman, happened to be the event chair. And she made darn sure everyone was aware of that fact. She just isn't a nice person. Local real estate agent, who won't sell a home under a $400k price tag. She liked to show off her flash, too. Nothing modest about her. The humorous thing was that we all could tell that she was trying to fool us that she didn't care about fancy things. plu-hese. I didn't know one person could give so many back handed compliments. <br /><br />She demanded all of these elaborate, marvelous ideas about what the event needed, but never did anything to make the ideas happen. No, she left the execution to the staff. Which actually meant me. And our intern. God bless that intern. If it weren’t for her, I might have slit my wrists during that event. This woman was so incredibly brutal, that one of the decision factors of me leaving and accepting my new job, was that I’d never, ever have to do that event again. It was that bad. <br /><br />The icing on the cake was the night of the event, when she went on stage to make a small speech to the guests, took all the credit. Not one thank-you to the staff. Not one thank-you the paying guests who paid good money to buy a table. It was sick. I do believe the following week we got an email from her, and again in her back handed compliment way, she said something along the lines of what a fabulous event it was and how pleased she was it turned out so well. It still makes me mad to think about her. Ugh. I could just spit.Kymical Reactionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03973202222132286348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-69023364129131923372009-12-02T11:10:55.941-05:002009-12-02T11:10:55.941-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.fishyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169980377922293950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-66926775905216988512009-12-02T11:10:48.522-05:002009-12-02T11:10:48.522-05:00Aunty Belle,
Maybe next year I will be smart enoug...Aunty Belle,<br />Maybe next year I will be smart enough to read this post when they call to say Fishy come do another tree.fishyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169980377922293950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-1107116262090047162009-12-02T07:58:31.697-05:002009-12-02T07:58:31.697-05:00Pam,
To tell you my sad truth I did resist agreein...Pam,<br />To tell you my sad truth I did resist agreeing to do a tree this year for the longest time possible. But two of my employees are appreciative of this organizations service to loved ones past. It means a lot to them for me ( not them) to do a tree. <br /><br />I am sure it would be very entertaining to hear Kym's"committeewoman" commentary. So Kym, if you read this ....spill it girl!<br /><br />On your point about church committees .... I find them the worst, the absolute worst , of all committee groups. In fact, last weekend I had a conversation with our pastor who invited me to share my " time and talents" for a proposed expansion to our buildings. I VERY politely declined and told our pastor, " I am sorry to disappoint but i am not a good committee person." He pressed onward with his recruit Fishy mission until i held my hand up and said, " I cannot do this. I learned the hard way working on church committees seriously impairs my ability to believe in the goodness of mankind. I certainly appreciate the good accomplished with many working toward a common goal. But! I DETEST that weird psychosis thing that happens when a group mentality gets rolling. I find it maybe one shade off of the mentality of a gang member who will trash his fellow man for wearing red on blue Wednesday or even worse, like demented, hormonal high school bitch cliques." Our pastor looked at me hard for an extended time then busted out laughing and finally got around to saying , "Amen".<br /><br />Boxer,<br />I should follow your good example. <br />I SWEAR to you a few years back, I signed Mermaid and I up to make sandwiches for the homeless on Saturday mornings in December. In our area the soup kitchens are not open on weekends so volunteers are needed to make meat and cheese sandwiches for Saturdays and peanut butter and jelly for Sundays, because there is no refrigeration available for the Sunday sandwiches.<br /><br /> Once Mermaid and I arrived we were assigned to do PB&J because it was less complicated (with fewer components) than the meat and cheese sandwiches. Mermaid was assigned the duty of setting up the bags to receive the made sandwiches.<br /> I will always remember the shock on Mermaid's face when some overbearing, officious witch came to loudly chastise me for not spreading the peanut butter correctly. In the car , on the way home from this " enriching and awareness" outing with my daughter, was the first time I ever heard Mermaid cuss.<br />I should have learned then.fishyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169980377922293950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-34309218634333628842009-12-02T07:51:12.074-05:002009-12-02T07:51:12.074-05:00uh...yeah, life is jes' too sort fer this kind...uh...yeah, life is jes' too sort fer this kinda thang, Fishy.<br /><br />But we'uns would love ya to post a photo of yore tree-wired as required, of course.Aunty Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13868780211706866610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-29914224346274553312009-12-01T23:19:38.077-05:002009-12-01T23:19:38.077-05:00and this is why I officially STOPPED all volunteer...and this is why I officially STOPPED all volunteer work over ten years ago and I'm happy to write checks. What a waste of valuable time. What a waste of your valuable talent. The problem with volunteers? You can't fire them!<br /><br />Pam said - bless you for your patience.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11280822962202098606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-13341196661694862822009-12-01T21:07:50.578-05:002009-12-01T21:07:50.578-05:00AAARRRRGHHH!!! I feel your pain. You have no ide...AAARRRRGHHH!!! I feel your pain. You have no idea how much I feel your pain. I can't wait until Kymmie reads this because her job for 3 years involved similar events on a regular basis. We have a man at church, a long-time member, who will do anything you ask him to do, as long as he doesn't have to work with a committee. I have pretty much adopted this rule too. The women's group keeps asking me to join in and I can think of nothing worse than a bunch of women trying to organize a volunteer event. In your case, throw in trying to supervise people who are professional decorators and make sure they are decorating to standard? I don't THINK so!!! God bless for your patience my child!Pamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15357397551761295138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-56657585582047308862009-12-01T11:37:40.774-05:002009-12-01T11:37:40.774-05:00Hey Buzz,
exactly so! Far too many retired ladies...Hey Buzz,<br />exactly so! Far too many retired ladies milling around with nothing to do. A few of them were smart enough to take a look around and make their exits. Most stayed the day falling over each other and aggravating the bejeebers out of me and the other tree people.<br /><br />Joan is, at this point, a figurehead. In fact, they must assign other volunteers to go and fetch Joan if her hubby is busy golfing and they must assign someone to look after Joan as she busies about. Literally they use another volunteer as Joan's seeing eye helper. There actually is a " see after Joan" cadre of assignees. There is no doubt Joan has done a lot of good for this charity and, no doubt she is eager to keep her place of recognition. Sadly, I think there are many good souls who shy away from this event because it is just outside their tolerance level to deal with all the irritations. I get that, it probably took me 2 hours longer than it should have to get my tree done.<br /><br />About that shuttle bus, yeah, I'm definitely thankful.fishyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169980377922293950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-48958046485898636322009-12-01T10:56:16.298-05:002009-12-01T10:56:16.298-05:00Wow! Its been my experience on volunteer work tha...Wow! Its been my experience on volunteer work that there are never enough people organizing the volunteers or doing all of the preliminary prepartion to be ready for the day of the event. What you seemed to experience is the other extreme. They should have had a committeewoman tree for them to decorate (although it probably would have tripped a breaker). And charities wonder why volunteers are down.<br />I'm all for having handicapped people participate in charities but assigning Joan as tree inspector is a little much. Be thankful she wasn't driving a shuttle bus. BwahahahaBuzz Killhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01443964019621130222noreply@blogger.com