RESPECT 101
Here's a little story to clarify just how intollerant I am of the lack of respect among my peers. A while ago, I was asked to attend a meeting for a committee (that will remain nameless) that I'm not even serving on. The reason I was asked to attend the meeting was because they have hopes that I will serve next year. This is not an average committee, it is a full time commitment. The meeting was to take place in Philadelphia this weekend and I was told months ago. Fine, I said I would go. Infact, I was so generous to attend this meeting I have no obligation to, that I revolved my schedule around it. Since I had to drive down to Philly this weekend, and then go to LA the next weekend from DC, I figured why not combine the trips, I'll go to Philly and continue to DC and fly to LA from there to avoid two coastal 10 hour trips back-to-back, which also saves them a reimbursment to me for a car rental. Only problem is, I backed out of a freelance job to do it... a paying freelance job. Yesterday, I got a message that the meeting was cancelled because the other members of the committee were tied up with their own work. These committee members are close friends of mine. I love them to death, but I don't stand for this. I decided to find the bright side of the situation, at least it gave me a couple more days in New Jersey with my sister. AND I could stay to see Ararat on Saturday night, since Friday was all sold out, and we all know how much Arsineh has been anticipating this film. YAY I got a ticket. riiiiing.... hello? Arsineh, nevermind, the meeting is back on!
Moral of the story: STOP TAKING ADVANTAGE OF LOYALTY! I am convinced that one of the reasons our community suffers the way it does is because there is an unspoken standard that if you care, you will drop your life to work for all these organizations without reward and you'll like it. Therefore, people take advantage of this to pass on the things they don't want to do to others. I can't count how many times this week people have asked me to do things they are capable of doing, but don't because they don't want to. Some say I am a valuable asset to this community. I say I am the problem... until now. Patch work isn't going to get us anywhere. Leaning on the overwhelmed, burnt-out veterans is not going to cut it. STEP UP PEOPLE! You want something done, do it yourself! Travelling city to city at the snap of someone elses finger is not my idea of loyalty, it's stupidity. I'm not a sucker and wont be treated like one.
The happy ending of the story, I'm blowing off the meeting and going to see Ararat!
Here's a little story to clarify just how intollerant I am of the lack of respect among my peers. A while ago, I was asked to attend a meeting for a committee (that will remain nameless) that I'm not even serving on. The reason I was asked to attend the meeting was because they have hopes that I will serve next year. This is not an average committee, it is a full time commitment. The meeting was to take place in Philadelphia this weekend and I was told months ago. Fine, I said I would go. Infact, I was so generous to attend this meeting I have no obligation to, that I revolved my schedule around it. Since I had to drive down to Philly this weekend, and then go to LA the next weekend from DC, I figured why not combine the trips, I'll go to Philly and continue to DC and fly to LA from there to avoid two coastal 10 hour trips back-to-back, which also saves them a reimbursment to me for a car rental. Only problem is, I backed out of a freelance job to do it... a paying freelance job. Yesterday, I got a message that the meeting was cancelled because the other members of the committee were tied up with their own work. These committee members are close friends of mine. I love them to death, but I don't stand for this. I decided to find the bright side of the situation, at least it gave me a couple more days in New Jersey with my sister. AND I could stay to see Ararat on Saturday night, since Friday was all sold out, and we all know how much Arsineh has been anticipating this film. YAY I got a ticket. riiiiing.... hello? Arsineh, nevermind, the meeting is back on!
Moral of the story: STOP TAKING ADVANTAGE OF LOYALTY! I am convinced that one of the reasons our community suffers the way it does is because there is an unspoken standard that if you care, you will drop your life to work for all these organizations without reward and you'll like it. Therefore, people take advantage of this to pass on the things they don't want to do to others. I can't count how many times this week people have asked me to do things they are capable of doing, but don't because they don't want to. Some say I am a valuable asset to this community. I say I am the problem... until now. Patch work isn't going to get us anywhere. Leaning on the overwhelmed, burnt-out veterans is not going to cut it. STEP UP PEOPLE! You want something done, do it yourself! Travelling city to city at the snap of someone elses finger is not my idea of loyalty, it's stupidity. I'm not a sucker and wont be treated like one.
The happy ending of the story, I'm blowing off the meeting and going to see Ararat!
posted by Arsineh at 7:40 PM
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