Originally Posted by
SnuggleBuggles
So true!
I am drafting my "resignation" now and tried to explain my concerns with the direction things are taking. When you are in the "in crowd" you don't realize that you could be excluding people. I hope that they do what they can to welcome new volunteers because, like you said, it's a cycle. I have been involved for 13 years and have seen so many versions of things over the years. I was told this year that one of the leadership positions didn't need to be filled because "we got this". Yes, you might but you won't be doing this job forever. You need procedures and policies that are easy to simply hand down to your eventual replacement. You need mechanisms in place that make sense long term. I also think there was an air of "we don't need *you*" which, of course, feels pretty crappy. I am writing up all of my stuff now so I can step down and not deal with this group anymore.
I'm sorry, that really sucks, especially after you have been involved for over 13 years. It's really selfish behavior of the mean girls too, since it will affect how well the group is managed later on. It's just going to hurt the PTO in the long run. How do they get anything accomplished by alienating their volunteer base?
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