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rivka ([personal profile] rivka) wrote2004-11-23 07:20 pm

*stomp stomp stomp* Grrrrrr.

I'm on the Long-Range Planning committee at our church.

I'm supposed to be at a Long-Range Planning committee meeting right now, as a matter of fact.

I had volunteered to enter and analyze the data from a recent congregational survey, so that we could use it to guide our planning. Not a huge survey - 84 responses - but most of the responses were narrative comments, instead of checkboxes, so it took quite a while to get it all typed in, and then even longer to get it organized and broken down into themes and sub-themes and so forth, for useful analysis.

I did it. I prepared an eight-page narrative summary of the congregation's hopes, goals, and values, and three pages of colorful graphs illustrating demographic and church participation variables for the survey sample. I busted my ass to get it done in time for the meeting tonight.

And then I found myself standing on the front steps of the committee chair's darkened house, reports in hand, calling Michael to ask him to look up the phone numbers of the other committee members so I could ask them where everybody was.

The meeting was cancelled.

And they forgot to tell me.

Grrrrr.

*stomp stomp stomp*

[identity profile] kightp.livejournal.com 2004-11-23 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh-oh.

Don't they know better than to mess with the pregnant lady with the stompy boots?

[identity profile] fairoriana.livejournal.com 2004-11-23 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Grrrr!!!! How frustrating!!!!
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[identity profile] therealjae.livejournal.com 2004-11-23 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Growf. I hope they find a way to make it up to you. Or at least apologize *reeeeeally* well.

-J
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[personal profile] redbird 2004-11-23 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
That is rude, requires an apology, and suggests that they're not competent even at short-range planning.

[identity profile] micheinnz.livejournal.com 2004-11-24 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, what you said. Grrr!

[identity profile] jinian.livejournal.com 2004-11-23 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
How utterly rude. What on earth is wrong with these people?

[identity profile] ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com 2004-11-24 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Extraordinary, offensive, and unwise!

[identity profile] porcinea.livejournal.com 2004-11-24 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
Wow. What a stellar triumph of long-range planning.
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[personal profile] ailbhe 2004-11-24 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
Ooooh. BAD people. Also stupid. I'm going to sit back and watch the stomping.
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[identity profile] starstraf.livejournal.com 2004-11-24 08:23 am (UTC)(link)
GURRR - I HATE THAT

[identity profile] trinker.livejournal.com 2004-11-24 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
How stunningly arghful.

What on *earth* were they thinking?!