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Flail of Raeg
Nov. 7th, 2011 09:33 pmOMFG! I just spent two VERY long hours at our schools PAC meeting (parent advisory council, basically PTA) and I am soooooooooo fucking frustrated.
I imagine that it's like being in poltics, except with stupider, more closed minded people.
Someone from the community, who owns a seasonal business that just closed for the year, offered to give us FREE hotdogs and drinks, which we can sell at the school and make 100% profit. I even offered to HOST the damn thing (ie: put out the fliers to inform the parents, collect the money, COOK THE FUCKING DOGS, and hand them out to the kids. What did PAC say?
PAC:Oh. Well, what kind of drinks are they?
Me: I'm not sure. Most likely pop and or juice.
PAC: But ... but ... those aren't HEALTHY drinks.
Me: Yeah. But once a month or so, we put on pizza lunch, or hot dog lunch, and generally, on those occasions we offer pop. (we don't sell pop or have soda machines on school property)
PAC: I don't know. Soda sort of goes against our 'healthy lunch' policy. (btw: there is no offical policy regarding food. More of a guidline.)
Me: Yes.BECAUSE HOT DOGS ARE SO FUCKING HEALTHY!!!! This is a lovely oppourtinity for us to make a profit, at no risk to us. Not to mention THAT I'VE FUCKING OFFERED TO DO ALL THE WORK.
PAC: ... hums.... haws ...
Me: *fumes*
PAC: Well ... maaaaybe. I don't know ... should we VOTE on it?
Me: YOU'RE KIDDING, RIGHT?
PAC: Well, someone offered us free pop last year, and we turned them down.
What the ever loving fuck, people! I swear to god Imma smack a bitch.
Then later (after they begrudgingly accepted the hot dog lunch thing) I brought up another fundraising idea (which, face it, is pretty much 90% of what we do as a group.)
On this fundraising idea, I also offered to do 100% of the work. I got the same flack! I dunno....we already have this other fundraising thing going on .... I think parents will feel overwhelmed ....bla bla bla.
This 'thing' was basically ordering (or not) from a place that a lot of people order frozen food from all the time, and with this, we'd make 20% of the profit. The people would go to that store to pick up their stuff (no risk for the schoool, or pick ups to deal with).
The principal says: 20%? Is it even worth it? Generally, we don't do fundraising unless we can make at least 30%. SHOULD WE VOTE ON IT???
I swear to God, I just about walked out right there. Not only do I have to sit through HOURS of boring bullshit, but they're like a bunch of negative hens clucking and clucking and clucking all their negative no-can-do crap.
How about, SURE! Give it a try! Hey, if YOU'RE willing to do all the work, why not?
FUCK YOU BITCHES!
I do pizza lunches once per month (on my own time, btw) and make the PAC about 40% of their yearly fucking fundraising. And seriously, when I took THAT over, I also got flack about the way I wanted to do it. It wouldn't work. Someone tried that years ago and it didn't work, so don't bother, etc etc etc.
FLAILS. I'm done with them. Seriously. AND I'M THE CO-CHAIR! And have been for like 4 years! I just cannot take all that negativity anymore. Let alone the bla bla bla bla running on and on and on about shit that should only take 10 min to discuss. I know I"m not the only one that feels this way, but the people who say NO are much more invested than the people who don't really give a shit.
Really. I COULD BE AT HOME DRAWING PORN RIGHT NOW PEOPLE, CAN WE HURRY THIS SHIT UP?
Okay, I feel better now. Take my negative energy interwebs, and make porny gifs with it! (cause that's how gifs are born, people!)
THE MORE YOU KNOW. *rainbow*
I imagine that it's like being in poltics, except with stupider, more closed minded people.
Someone from the community, who owns a seasonal business that just closed for the year, offered to give us FREE hotdogs and drinks, which we can sell at the school and make 100% profit. I even offered to HOST the damn thing (ie: put out the fliers to inform the parents, collect the money, COOK THE FUCKING DOGS, and hand them out to the kids. What did PAC say?
PAC:Oh. Well, what kind of drinks are they?
Me: I'm not sure. Most likely pop and or juice.
PAC: But ... but ... those aren't HEALTHY drinks.
Me: Yeah. But once a month or so, we put on pizza lunch, or hot dog lunch, and generally, on those occasions we offer pop. (we don't sell pop or have soda machines on school property)
PAC: I don't know. Soda sort of goes against our 'healthy lunch' policy. (btw: there is no offical policy regarding food. More of a guidline.)
Me: Yes.
PAC: ... hums.... haws ...
Me: *fumes*
PAC: Well ... maaaaybe. I don't know ... should we VOTE on it?
Me: YOU'RE KIDDING, RIGHT?
PAC: Well, someone offered us free pop last year, and we turned them down.
What the ever loving fuck, people! I swear to god Imma smack a bitch.
Then later (after they begrudgingly accepted the hot dog lunch thing) I brought up another fundraising idea (which, face it, is pretty much 90% of what we do as a group.)
On this fundraising idea, I also offered to do 100% of the work. I got the same flack! I dunno....we already have this other fundraising thing going on .... I think parents will feel overwhelmed ....bla bla bla.
This 'thing' was basically ordering (or not) from a place that a lot of people order frozen food from all the time, and with this, we'd make 20% of the profit. The people would go to that store to pick up their stuff (no risk for the schoool, or pick ups to deal with).
The principal says: 20%? Is it even worth it? Generally, we don't do fundraising unless we can make at least 30%. SHOULD WE VOTE ON IT???
I swear to God, I just about walked out right there. Not only do I have to sit through HOURS of boring bullshit, but they're like a bunch of negative hens clucking and clucking and clucking all their negative no-can-do crap.
How about, SURE! Give it a try! Hey, if YOU'RE willing to do all the work, why not?
FUCK YOU BITCHES!
I do pizza lunches once per month (on my own time, btw) and make the PAC about 40% of their yearly fucking fundraising. And seriously, when I took THAT over, I also got flack about the way I wanted to do it. It wouldn't work. Someone tried that years ago and it didn't work, so don't bother, etc etc etc.
FLAILS. I'm done with them. Seriously. AND I'M THE CO-CHAIR! And have been for like 4 years! I just cannot take all that negativity anymore. Let alone the bla bla bla bla running on and on and on about shit that should only take 10 min to discuss. I know I"m not the only one that feels this way, but the people who say NO are much more invested than the people who don't really give a shit.
Really. I COULD BE AT HOME DRAWING PORN RIGHT NOW PEOPLE, CAN WE HURRY THIS SHIT UP?
Okay, I feel better now. Take my negative energy interwebs, and make porny gifs with it! (cause that's how gifs are born, people!)
THE MORE YOU KNOW. *rainbow*
