They still don’t get it

Not a self-portrait

So our esteemed Unit Board met again a couple of weeks ago. The minutes are posted on the bulletin board, and way down at item 11 we find this one:

11. BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ ROSTER ON THE WEBSITE: Bill George wanted

approval to post the board of directors’ roster to the website. He also wanted

permission to include e-mail addresses and a link to Chris Pisarra’s blog. Since

the blog contains personal non-unit-related information, the unit members want

more time to consider whether it was something the unit should do.

I wonder which “unit members” want more time to consider–one presumes that this just a euphemism to cover up the Board members not-so-hidden animosity. Oh heavens, I write about things other than what the Board is thinking and doing and how great they are. How dare I have a life outside their purview? How dare I write something without their prior permission?

It doesn’t really matter. I don’t think a link from the Unit web site will make the tiniest whit of difference in any case. I do this for fun. My fun, not theirs. I just find myself continually stunned by the pettiness the board feels compelled to express at every turn. Can’t they find something better to do with their time, like getting more people to play bridge? Maybe if someone was writing an interesting blog and talking about bridge that would help……..

6 thoughts on “They still don’t get it”

Susan Slinger on March 5, 2010 at 9:19 am said:

It’s a common phenomenon, Chris. When I was on our board, I suggested having a link to the Monterey club on our website, thinking that would be useful to our members. They could stay up with the schedule, have easy access to director phone numbers, etc. The club owners nixed the idea and the board was sheeplike.

One of the club owners said to me “That would be like Coke advertising for Pepsi.” Oh, well. . .

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Stephen on March 5, 2010 at 9:39 am said:

Chris, everybody loves you!!!

How should a unit decide on what links to publish? Sounds like a policy question to me for those who think such issue has importance. Or maybe just link anything requested until it gets to be too much. I vote for that. Oups, not a member

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- Chris Pisarra on March 5, 2010 at 10:42 am said:
  
  Thanks Steve. Maybe you should move here and get on the board.
  
  Chris
  
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Iris on March 6, 2010 at 6:04 pm said:

I detect much more animosity toward the board than from it.

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- Chris Pisarra on March 6, 2010 at 9:24 pm said:
  
  That would be the “I know you are but what am I?” defense.
  
  What do you think *should* be my response when, yet again, the board refuses to acknowledge my efforts? “Thank you sir, may I have another?” I think not.
  
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Susan Slinger on March 7, 2010 at 10:47 am said:

Here I am again — an outsider looking in, and almost family at that!

Stephen is right, it’s a policy decision.

Let’s see, should the unit have a link to a blog written by a unit member who’s one of the world’s biggest fans of duplicate bridge reporting on unit events, and, oh, by the way, who also reports on movies, restaurants, travel, art galleries and various things (the Unit’s own private Herb Caen of a sort). Or should the unit run a very tight, strict, dare I say uninteresting? website. In making the policy decision, the board shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that we’re talking about a link, for heaven’s sake.

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