It Cannot Be Said I Didn't Try...
Feb. 27th, 2010 09:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
femkes_follies... but it can possibly be said I didn't try very hard. ;-)
Apparently certain Persons within a specific Kingdom Guild were bent on another "letter writing campaign" where they try to get everybody and their cousins and second cousins to write recommendations for awards - whether you know the recipient or not. Now, while I'm all for "Hey, this person deserves the Order of the Whomping Weevil," I reserve the right to agree or disagree based on my own conscience. They also are inclined to report on the form that said would-be recipient will be at every Royal event on the Calendar, knowing full well this is not true.
Failing to derive satisfaction in the matter, it has now come to the E-list.
*eye roll*
Pause for Drahma of the "Mean Girls" variety. Apparently Yours Truly is the Mean Girl Prime. Why?
Well, it seems that one of the Officers, at least, and many of the General Population believe that the Guild should, in its official capacity (it has one?), arrange to put people in for awards. I opined that I felt this was NOT, in fact, an appropriate Group Function. I will not submit a recommendation I do not have firsthand knowledge of or do not agree with. Nor did I see why it needed to be a "function" of what is, effectively, a Household with a Royal stamp of approval.
This makes me Unsupportive of my Guild Sisters, Unworthy of respect, and Guilty of making other members who DO want cookies feel bad.
Apparently I shall be sentenced to 90 lashes with a wet noodle. *eye roll*
Bloody Hell.
WHY does "support" have to mean cookies??
Are we F-ing Girl Scouts? Where's my sash? Where are my Merit Badges.
Grow up, people.
My understanding was that this was to be a Kingdom-wide Schola of sorts. Not an E-mail Mutual Admiration Society. (There are apparently 200+ people on the E-list. Approximately 12 of them post at all). If all that will ever happen here is silly gossip on the E-list, extortion of projects for Gift Baskets (Which are supposed to be demonstrably period. But don't dare ever point out that someone else's project isn't at all period!), and stroking of egos whilst conspiring to make sure everybody rises up the Cursus Honorum as if it were a Bloody game of Non-Competetive Musical Chairs... It's probably time for me to take my marbles and go home.
There's probably a snark in here somewhere - if I can stop banging my head on the wall long enough to compose it.
Apparently certain Persons within a specific Kingdom Guild were bent on another "letter writing campaign" where they try to get everybody and their cousins and second cousins to write recommendations for awards - whether you know the recipient or not. Now, while I'm all for "Hey, this person deserves the Order of the Whomping Weevil," I reserve the right to agree or disagree based on my own conscience. They also are inclined to report on the form that said would-be recipient will be at every Royal event on the Calendar, knowing full well this is not true.
Failing to derive satisfaction in the matter, it has now come to the E-list.
*eye roll*
Pause for Drahma of the "Mean Girls" variety. Apparently Yours Truly is the Mean Girl Prime. Why?
Well, it seems that one of the Officers, at least, and many of the General Population believe that the Guild should, in its official capacity (it has one?), arrange to put people in for awards. I opined that I felt this was NOT, in fact, an appropriate Group Function. I will not submit a recommendation I do not have firsthand knowledge of or do not agree with. Nor did I see why it needed to be a "function" of what is, effectively, a Household with a Royal stamp of approval.
This makes me Unsupportive of my Guild Sisters, Unworthy of respect, and Guilty of making other members who DO want cookies feel bad.
Apparently I shall be sentenced to 90 lashes with a wet noodle. *eye roll*
Bloody Hell.
WHY does "support" have to mean cookies??
Are we F-ing Girl Scouts? Where's my sash? Where are my Merit Badges.
Grow up, people.
My understanding was that this was to be a Kingdom-wide Schola of sorts. Not an E-mail Mutual Admiration Society. (There are apparently 200+ people on the E-list. Approximately 12 of them post at all). If all that will ever happen here is silly gossip on the E-list, extortion of projects for Gift Baskets (Which are supposed to be demonstrably period. But don't dare ever point out that someone else's project isn't at all period!), and stroking of egos whilst conspiring to make sure everybody rises up the Cursus Honorum as if it were a Bloody game of Non-Competetive Musical Chairs... It's probably time for me to take my marbles and go home.
There's probably a snark in here somewhere - if I can stop banging my head on the wall long enough to compose it.
