Susan, it may be that the board memebers were busy putting out fires and calming ruffled feathers with the webmistress that they it may not have occured to them that you'd feel slighted.
That's probably true. And I'm just flummoxed by the whole thing. I don't claim to be especially tactful and sensitive, but I'm not used to causing problems when I thought I was solving them, either.
And it is a useful reminder of how my individualistic and control freak tendencies get me in trouble when I try to play well with others. It's rarely this bad, but I've occasionally stepped on toes by just going ahead and doing something and then finding out that someone else expected to be part of the process or had information that could've helped me do a better job. In this case, since I couldn't actually fix the problem myself, that part of my personality expressed itself in the online version of jumping up and down, pointing, and yelling, "Fix it! Fix it NOW!"
From what you described I get the feeling that the webmistress's actions would have been the same no matter who pointed out the problem.
Probably true. I think the real problem, protocol aside, is that I stumbled accidentally into something involving past incidents I had no part of.
Susan, in this case, I would let virtue be its own reward. It sounds like the officers are too busy smoothing down the drama queen to have a thought to spare for you.
That's what I'm going to do. And besides, this is a useful reminder that I'm a bull in a china shop myself. I might as well try to learn from it.
OK, I went back and did a little editing to my posts to vague up some of the specifics of the situation, because I felt like I said too much. I still have a bad habit of forgetting just how public this little corner of the internets really is. I'm trying to be a little more intentional about what I do and don't say online, even though it's largely shutting the barn door after the entire herd of horses has escaped to cavort in feral happiness on the prairie.
I praise Jen! Consider this praise, for lo, she is fabulous and awesome and hot, and has great taste in birthdays. :)
I'm in a v. good mood. Mmmm, good evening. Good day, really--only worked half a day, cause I finished early at the site and said "screw it, if I were elsewhere, I'd have to go to the airport and wait for my flight, so I'm going HOME". And watched TV, and napped. And then decided to go to a discussion group thing that I havne't been to in, literally, YEARS. And lo and behold...hot women! Fun women! We went to dinner after the group, and decided to go dancing! Had fabulous fun dancing! Got compliments from unexpected people! Met ANOTHER hot woman! Had to decide if I would be supermean to quit flirting with teh first hot woman because the second one was superhot. (Decided it would be mean, and I am nto mean. But I did promise Superhot woman a dance tomorrow night. We shall see, ladies and gents. I gave hot woman a ride home. Hehe)
So, um. A little stoked. And no one is on IM for me to gush to, so I gush to you, O Bitches!
I'm sorry P-C. You're a boy. It doesn't quite count the same.
I should so go to sleep. But I dont' WANNA go to sleep! Also, i have no daytime plans, so I have no motivation to go to sleep. And I took a nap this afternoon. WIDE awake, i am!! And, oh, just a tad giddy. WHEE!
