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Okay. I want to bite something now. You want to know why?
...Or maybe you don't want to know why, but, well. I'm going to tell you anyway.
See, as it happens, I got myself hooked up as a committee member of TCD's Archaeological Society. And now, instead of being sane (was sanity ever a thing I should have expected from my fellow college students?) and conducting business through email, the joint Auditors have gone and set up forums on some community site thingy called 'Bebo' or something, for organising the Society for Fresher's Week.
Wankers. They too lazy to expend the effort to co-ordinate via email? Not filling me with confidence of the most massive. They could have done something slightly more sane, and set up a Yahoo mailing list - at least one can send and receive communications from one's inbox that way, without needing a whole 'nother rigmarole.
I are pissed. Pissed. Because I've been avoiding Bebo and MySpace and the like like the plague itself - LJ is my timesink of choice, and the last thing I need is the temptation of another one.
I'm also pissed because I'm a pessimist.
There are three major problems with working in committee. The two most important - and connected - are leadership and communications, the whole 'I thought - he said - but you' thing that happens when nobody knows who's setting the agenda, or even if an agenda is being set, and nobody is taking responsibility for making final decisions, and making sure the rest of the committee is informed in a timely manner.
The third is cooperation. Keeping the committee as a whole and as individuals involved and working towards the same goals.
My previous experience with committees doesn't leave me hopeful.
...Or maybe you don't want to know why, but, well. I'm going to tell you anyway.
See, as it happens, I got myself hooked up as a committee member of TCD's Archaeological Society. And now, instead of being sane (was sanity ever a thing I should have expected from my fellow college students?) and conducting business through email, the joint Auditors have gone and set up forums on some community site thingy called 'Bebo' or something, for organising the Society for Fresher's Week.
Wankers. They too lazy to expend the effort to co-ordinate via email? Not filling me with confidence of the most massive. They could have done something slightly more sane, and set up a Yahoo mailing list - at least one can send and receive communications from one's inbox that way, without needing a whole 'nother rigmarole.
I are pissed. Pissed. Because I've been avoiding Bebo and MySpace and the like like the plague itself - LJ is my timesink of choice, and the last thing I need is the temptation of another one.
I'm also pissed because I'm a pessimist.
There are three major problems with working in committee. The two most important - and connected - are leadership and communications, the whole 'I thought - he said - but you' thing that happens when nobody knows who's setting the agenda, or even if an agenda is being set, and nobody is taking responsibility for making final decisions, and making sure the rest of the committee is informed in a timely manner.
The third is cooperation. Keeping the committee as a whole and as individuals involved and working towards the same goals.
My previous experience with committees doesn't leave me hopeful.
