In your case Susan, I'm pretty sure it was how she took it not what she did - probably looking for an excuse to resign (thats what the "last straw" thing means to me.

Probably true. It's still frustrating to start your day by doing what you feel is a small good deed for an organization you're part of, only to have an unintended consequence create a problem for that same group.

wrod. btdt.

Also frustating to have someone you don't even know assume you had the worst possible motvation for your actions. It's not like it took a great leap of logic to guess you were trying to be helpful.

Look at the bat wallpaper border!

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Susan, I'm sorry for the frustration. Volunteer politics are always messy and painful.

OK. Grr.

It looks like, from something that was just posted on the discussion board in question, that our apologies worked and the webmistress isn't resigning. But there was this big post from one of the officers about how any issues with the webpage should go directly to her or the webmistress, having issues pointed out in public isn't respectful of the webmistress and the fact she volunteers her time, etc.

While the board member who emailed me today said she knew I was trying to do the right thing, no one has YET thanked me for having a good enough eye to notice the address and denomination of the church looked wrong and caring enough to look it up and confirm. And I feel like I'm being a drama queen myself now, but is it too much to ask to get a LITTLE appreciation for making a really good catch? I'm feeling strongly tempted to email the officer in question and say so, but that may be a bad idea.

I'm feeling strongly tempted to email the officer in question and say so, but that may be a bad idea.

Yeah, I'd squealch that impulse. It won't play well. And I get your frustration, and I totally think the webmaster is being a HUGE drama queen. But your well-motivated, editorial catch is only going to play as fault-finding etc. at this point.

Waves at folks after skippity skipping.

Hope all are well...I hate not being able to keep up here.

If the disability movement fails, it's gonna be from stuff like that. grr. I have very sexy fingernails now. helpful to chat up a manicurist at the mailbox.

But there was this big post from one of the officers about how any issues with the webpage should go directly to her or the webmistress, having issues pointed out in public isn't nice

That's actually true. A phrase to live by is "Praise in public, criticize in private." If somebody's done something miraculously good, tell the whole group. If she's messed up, tell her and only her.

I understand why you feel jumped on, but the officer is right; the fastest way to lose a volunteer is to let people put her work down in public.

Hey lexine!

I was reading a spring training report where Jason Kendall was talking about what good stuff Danny Haren had. That's encouraging. Four plus pitches he can throw for strikes. That's serious command. Also, Huston Street picked up a change from old A's starter Steve Ontiveros. How cool is that? I love when generations pass down the knowledge.

Did you know Joe Blanton threw in the mid-90s? I sure didn't. When you going down to spring training? My downstairs neighbor is going to Scottsdale to see the Jints Geriatrics move their creaking bones.

I have very sexy fingernails now.

Truly, you have some of the prettiest hands I've ever seen. Though, that calls to mind George's brief career as a hand-model on Seinfeld.