It’s a puzzlement:

[jennlk]

would this be considered TimeFail or Competency Being Its Own Punishment?

So, I’d been sortof planning on making it to the Annual Picnic this year. It’s been at least a decade since I’ve been, mostly due to TimeFail of various (often competency related) issues. I’d even put in a request for that week off, and had gotten provisional approval. And then the Deputy Treasurer resigned, effective yesterday. There goes that “week off”.

Treasurer had made family plans for that week, as that was basically the only week that neither of her kids had training/work/sportscamp *and* her husband could get off. But that’s the week after summer tax bills hit mailboxes, and people will be coming in to pay them. The OfficeManager can take tax payments, but really doesn’t like to. So somebody has to cover, and as the newbie, that would be me. Unless they can find somebody to hire on as Deputy Treasurer in the next week and a half.

Comments

[billroper]

Gack. I'm sorry.

[mrs_sweetpeach]

I wondered if you were going this year. Looks like I'll get to continue to wonder although I have to admit it seems unlikely a new Deputy Treasurer can be found in time.

Condolences on not getting your northern vacation again this year.

[jennlk]

Thank you.

And I had had such hopes! I had decided that I could skip the FCB concert that was scheduled for that week, and there is no August election, so....

And it turns out that it's not so much that OfficeManager would rather not take tax payments, but more that she might not be in the office that week anyway because she's having cataract surgery the week before. There's someone scheduled in to cover her duties, but Treasurer really doesn't want a temp taking tax payments.