Grrrrrr…
I’m going to share two things that have me feeling very conflicted.
The first is that the warm and fuzzies I get from volunteering for political and charitable organizations always seems to be dampened by some of the paid staff members. I believe it’s because they feel threatened by someone who will work without pay. Of course, the senior staff of any organization for which I’ve worked – for free – loves me as a volunteer who works hard and brings high-end skill-sets. Unfortunately though, my experience is that senior staff members rarely talk to volunteer staff members.
Therein lies the rub; senior staff loves you but won’t associate with you because you are “just a volunteer” and they are busy doing what they do, while the junior staff resents you and thinks that you are going to take their job. So the end result is that everybody acts snooty.
What a pain in the ass. The fact is; I make a very good salary for what I do for a living. I don’t want to “take” the job of a paid staffer at any organization that receives my time because, frankly, the pay probably won’t meet my requirements.
I have always given my time to organizations because I (perversely, I guess) enjoy working. I could just give money but any idiot can do that.
BTW, this is not a slam on the Obama campaign only. I’ve experienced this with charitable orgs. Plus I’m sure Hillary has a bunch of assholes working for her as well.
My second issue has to do with people I follow on Twitter who tweet (rhetorical?) questions CONSTANTLY but don’t follow me. I can’t communicate with the people throwing out the questions because they won’t “hear” me and meanwhile their constant Twitter questions start driving me crazier than I already am.
I guess I could ping these people and say “I follow you; why not follow me as well?” but I really don’t feel like doing that. Plus, this is the Net, where 75% of the females online think that if you want contact with them, you MUST desire to have sex with them. So I’m guessing that I’ll just have to stop following these people, which is too bad because they tweet interesting sites when they are not asking questions.
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I’m sorry you’re having such a problem with the lower-staffers. It’s sad that people are like that, but it’s amazing how the average person will change on you if they think their slice of the pie is threatened. It stems from deep-rooted feelings of inadequacy and other insecurities about their lives. Therefore, they treat every possible threat to their status severely.
In the end, though, the joke’s on them because people who live in fear never really live. Actually, Bdog2g2 submitted a really good article about that this week–it’s in psych majors.
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“this is the Net, where 75% of the females online think that if you want contact with them, you MUST desire to have sex with them”
That’s because it their daily lives 90% of their male friends want to sleep with them, and they transfer that protective nature over to the internet. I’ve experienced that A LOT in my own life, and it’s very frustrating (if you want to hear the long version of that story you’ll have to mixx-mail me.)
I don’t have any twitter advice for you because I’m a twitter n00b. However, I can say one thing about the volunteering. The best thing to do is what you’ve already done, outline your strengths and give yourself reassurance that you are a valued member of their team even if those with less self-efficacy doubt it. You are awesome: you’re doing a great job for them and anyone who doesn’t appreciate it is too wrapped up in her own petty problems.