Get your facts straight and don't lie to me, ffs -_-
It is well known that I do not like liars, and when I get wind that somebody is lying about something that I am quite well connected with I tend to get quite irate...and a friend of mine found out about that this evening.
This friend picked me up after work so we could head to a meeting tonight for a convention that we're both involved with - she's a volunteer, but I am on the actual committee that puts this event together.
On the way to the meeting she was trying to tell me that her partner was just put onto the executive. Which I know is utter bullshit. In order to be eligible for the executive you have to have been a regular committee member for at least a year - her partner isn't even ON the committee to begin with, and we have a legal constitution that lists out how we handle appointments to the executive. I pointed this out to her and she said she can only go by what her partner says, and that her partner will be wearing a yellow shirt. Um. No. The partner will not - that particular shirt (for committee purposes) is reserved to committee members only, and it is not specific for members of the executive. Hell, *I* have a yellow shirt that I wear when I am not doing security stuff for the convention, and I'm not on the executive...although there is a push for me to be elected to it at some point.
I do know this right now - if her partner's name gets put forward to join the committee I'm going to vote no because I want no part of this person on the committee. I already didn't much like them to begin with, but if they are going to lie about something like this, well, I like them even less.
I double-checked the membership of the committee FB page and this person is not even mentioned on it. Another bit of proof that somebody is lying somewhere, and I know it isn't anybody on the committee!
The executive for the group consists of the Chair, Vice-Chair, and Secretary (aka the Board of Directors) and the heads of the seven subcommittees - there is absolutely no room for some random volunteer to be added to the executive. And it has nothing to do with how long a person has been a volunteer either!
Yes, I call bullshit. And if the lie continues I'm going to bring it up at our next meeting and see where it goes from there.
This friend picked me up after work so we could head to a meeting tonight for a convention that we're both involved with - she's a volunteer, but I am on the actual committee that puts this event together.
On the way to the meeting she was trying to tell me that her partner was just put onto the executive. Which I know is utter bullshit. In order to be eligible for the executive you have to have been a regular committee member for at least a year - her partner isn't even ON the committee to begin with, and we have a legal constitution that lists out how we handle appointments to the executive. I pointed this out to her and she said she can only go by what her partner says, and that her partner will be wearing a yellow shirt. Um. No. The partner will not - that particular shirt (for committee purposes) is reserved to committee members only, and it is not specific for members of the executive. Hell, *I* have a yellow shirt that I wear when I am not doing security stuff for the convention, and I'm not on the executive...although there is a push for me to be elected to it at some point.
I do know this right now - if her partner's name gets put forward to join the committee I'm going to vote no because I want no part of this person on the committee. I already didn't much like them to begin with, but if they are going to lie about something like this, well, I like them even less.
I double-checked the membership of the committee FB page and this person is not even mentioned on it. Another bit of proof that somebody is lying somewhere, and I know it isn't anybody on the committee!
The executive for the group consists of the Chair, Vice-Chair, and Secretary (aka the Board of Directors) and the heads of the seven subcommittees - there is absolutely no room for some random volunteer to be added to the executive. And it has nothing to do with how long a person has been a volunteer either!
Yes, I call bullshit. And if the lie continues I'm going to bring it up at our next meeting and see where it goes from there.
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