About three weeks ago my son posted this quote on facebook, probably dealing with something at work."Poor planning on your part, does not constitute an emergency on mine".
He received several comments including this one.
"'cept usually it does".I thought about that quote many times these last few weeks, as I have had several experiences with just this same thing.
Long story short. Clergy Leadership over Scouting asks me after a church meeting if I will do the BSA Charter Renewal for our group. I tell him, I will input the information in the online computer program, but that's all I have time for.
You see, I work 50 to 60 hours a week and have a home and family plus other church assignments. Later that week I was given, what looked to be the complete existing files for the Scouting Program! Tossing everything irrelevant to the Scout Charter, I went through the packet the BSA sends out for re-chartering and on the front it says our charter information is due October 19th, just 4 days from receiving the information. I sent the packet back to the leader telling him I needed current information from the scout leaders in order for me to input our information into the BSA's System. He talks to me about it the following Sunday and I clarify my note and the commitment I made to help. I find out Monday night, after arriving home from work after 10:00 p.m. and having another hour and a half of work at home, that he had taken the packet he first gave to me, over to the Bishop's wife! Needless to say, I was "livid"!
Now my position on the Scout Committee is Treasurer, The Bishop's Wife is Secretary. The people who's job this should have been, (since they had direct access to the information needed) were the Scoutmaster, the Scout Committee Chairmen, and possibly the newly called Membership Coordinator.
This man who dropped this, first in my lap and then the Bishop's Wife's lap, is ultimately responsible for the Charter Renewal because his title in the organization is "Charter Organization Representative"!
Now this is going on the second year I have served on the Scout Committee, and after going through the Re-Chartering process last year I am pretty familiar with what it takes to complete it. I know for ONE, it is due the same time every year! This was no surprise for the Charter Organization Rep! I know that he had the packet for at least 45 days before the Charter was due, and now he dumps it on me, 8 days before it is due!
Needless to say, I was not going to let him "dump" it on the Bishop's Wife either. I at least knew what the process was...so-I had to call her and "talk her down"! She was totally overwhelmed by it, and I don't blame her. She'd never done it before either and, knowing her, she wouldn't say NO!
Long story short. Clergy Leadership over Scouting asks me after a church meeting if I will do the BSA Charter Renewal for our group. I tell him, I will input the information in the online computer program, but that's all I have time for.
You see, I work 50 to 60 hours a week and have a home and family plus other church assignments. Later that week I was given, what looked to be the complete existing files for the Scouting Program! Tossing everything irrelevant to the Scout Charter, I went through the packet the BSA sends out for re-chartering and on the front it says our charter information is due October 19th, just 4 days from receiving the information. I sent the packet back to the leader telling him I needed current information from the scout leaders in order for me to input our information into the BSA's System. He talks to me about it the following Sunday and I clarify my note and the commitment I made to help. I find out Monday night, after arriving home from work after 10:00 p.m. and having another hour and a half of work at home, that he had taken the packet he first gave to me, over to the Bishop's wife! Needless to say, I was "livid"!
Now my position on the Scout Committee is Treasurer, The Bishop's Wife is Secretary. The people who's job this should have been, (since they had direct access to the information needed) were the Scoutmaster, the Scout Committee Chairmen, and possibly the newly called Membership Coordinator.
This man who dropped this, first in my lap and then the Bishop's Wife's lap, is ultimately responsible for the Charter Renewal because his title in the organization is "Charter Organization Representative"!
Now this is going on the second year I have served on the Scout Committee, and after going through the Re-Chartering process last year I am pretty familiar with what it takes to complete it. I know for ONE, it is due the same time every year! This was no surprise for the Charter Organization Rep! I know that he had the packet for at least 45 days before the Charter was due, and now he dumps it on me, 8 days before it is due!
Needless to say, I was not going to let him "dump" it on the Bishop's Wife either. I at least knew what the process was...so-I had to call her and "talk her down"! She was totally overwhelmed by it, and I don't blame her. She'd never done it before either and, knowing her, she wouldn't say NO!
So, here I am. (Still with help from the Bishop's Wife, cause that's the type of person she is), trying to accumulate the information needed to do the computer input, (and, you know how it can be asking adults for simple information? They don't cooperate)! Also, being dumped on by a teacher of the Primary class who teaches the other group of 5 going on 6 year old's, I would like to revise the quote.
"Poor planning on your part will most definitely constitute an emergency on mine, and once again I will save your BUTT, and make YOU look good in the process"!
You're Welcome!
You're Welcome!
*More on the Primary Teacher later!
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