Bulletin Board Helper
I'm pretty sure I forgot to post this last week, but I'm new enough to blogging that I'm not confident I didn't overlook this in the archives, either, so forgive if this is a repeat post:
I invited young Emily to come in and chat with me about doing the April "Dance Week" bulletin board, and possibly assembling another (if she's interested) out of the media boxes Adrienne gave me. As I would with any volunteer, I gave Emily a tour of our "backstage" (my cubicle and the story/storage room), and I gave her some books and a glimpse of the Angelina Ballerina poster that sparked our interest. She and I will meet again this Thursday evening so she can present her general concept to me...
But the hitch is this: I work mornings on M, T and F---she can't come in on Weds. evenings, when I'm here, and she can't make it in on Thursdays until about the time I'm scheduled to leave, and of course I don't work on weekends (sorry, but it's true ;-). So...after she and I chat about her general plans, I've told her she should come in at HER convenience to work on the board at HER pace. This means that she may have questions of a general ("Where do I find...?") nature that she'll need to bring to whoever is sitting at the gazebo. Please also help to remind her, if you see her, to sign in and out as a volunteer, so her work doesn't go unrecorded. And thank her, of course, for saving YOU the headache of putting up a bulletin board! :->
posted by JoHn at 12:16 PM
9 Comments:
I don't mind her coming in at her convenience, but it would really be best if she did not come in when there was not a regular children's dept member there- i.e. weekends and thursdays. Unless she wants to plan ahead for a weekend day that one of us will be here. I really don't like the idea of both her and a sub being in the uncomfortable position of not knowing what to do...
by the way, i appreciate you taking the initiative and taking responsibility for the bulletin board volunteer... :)
Oooops! As usual, I'm delighted to find that you're glad I contacted her; dope that I am, it wouldn't have occurred to me to refer to you first. (So put this in a file under "Advance Forgiveness for Marcia for the Next Time She Screws Up by Not Remembering to Ask First," ok?)
I will see Emily this Thursday and be sure to ask about her plans and post info here; I'll check the gazebo staffing schedule and teach her how to sign in, when we meet. I don't want her to be uncomfortable or feel she can't move forward without J staff direction, either!
Marcia-
To clarify- contacting her was a GOOD thing! It is nice when staff take care of little things like that so others do not have to worry about them. AND nice when they communicate well about them :). I only wanted to make sure it was clear that I did not want E__ here when there were no dept. staff here...
Go ahead and call her. Also tell her that it won't be the last time we'll need a bulletin board volunteer and that she is one of our valued volunteers, etc. :)
This is fun, using cyberspace to get told over and over that you did something good!! I apologize if I gave any other impression; I just know that someday I will "take the initiative" and it will turn out to be something I should have asked about, so I hope you'll remember THEN that you said all sorts of nice things about me, this time! Just a heads-up, folks... ;-)
mistakes made in the attempt to do good are welcome in this department. the microwave was a mistake, after all. and other famous inventions i can't think of.
See "Accidents May Happen and "Mistakes That Worked" (both j609 by Jones @WPL); you may also enjoy "The Invention of Ordinary Things" (J608/Wulffson).
Ahem. The trouble is, poor Emily must not only take time out of her own life to help us out, but she's dependent on her parents for transportation. She asked if she could come in on Saturday morning, so I gave her my home phone # and an extra tour of "stuff," and told her if she got stuck she should call me and I can buzz down in 10 minutes or coach her over the phone. Is this ok? It really sounded to me like this is the best time for her...
Marcia, if you're willing to be on call for her, I don't suppose that will be a problem. Just keep the rest of us infomred when she is indeed coming in, if that's all right... we should all remember, though, as a rule (I know this may seem harsh, but the reality is that we have limits and priorities ourselves)that we can't always adjust to volunteers' schedules, and to spend a lot of energy trying to do so is not necessarily wise, or the best use of our resources. Again, I say this to all of us, because as well as I know each of us in the department, we can all have our weak codependent moments (except, perhaps, for Penny :))...
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