Feel like sharing any details Bones?
Thanks, GS.
I've just been feeling so frustrated lately.
Where I live, I'm on the board of the home owners' association and I try to keep a close eye on what property management tries to do. When they attempted to force the board to approve the installation of cigarette urns, outside my building and another building, even though the home owners NEVER requested them, I strenuously objected because I have asthma. Being forced to walk through second-hand smoke has landed me in the emergency room before. Property management attempted to justify their decision and I countered that they could set up a designated smoking area AWAY from the buildings. When property management complained that a designated smoking area would be "inconvenient to the smokers", I finally lost my temper and bluntly told them that my landing in the emergency room with a life-threatening attack is INCONVENIENT TO ME! That's when property management decided to drop their idea of installing cigarette urns.
Fast forward to this past week ... the board has been informed that the on-site service coordinator, who is an employee of property management, is leaving. Another board member has been pressuring me to apply for the job. I pointed out to him that our Bylaws forbid me to remain on the board if I become an employee of property management. Plus, as an employee of property management, I would no longer have a voice if they try to push through sneaky crap again, like those cigarette urns. If I object, I would be terminated AND I would no longer have a voice on the board either! By remaining on the board, I can keep a close eye on things and HAVE MY VOICE! I also outlined other factors that weighed in my decision to say: NO. This other board member REFUSES to HEAR ME and has attempted to FORCE me to change my NO into a YES because that is what HE wants! (What part of the word NO does he NOT understand?) We have a board meeting scheduled this coming week and I have a feeling that's he's going to try to force my hand in public and I'm going to lose my cool! (BTW, his opinion of property management flip flops any which way the wind blows until it hits him, personally, in the pocketbook, then he'll try to proclaim that he NEVER trusted property management from the beginning! He conveniently forgets that HE was the one who brought that management company to us in the first place!) I'm also dealing with this same board member in another community organization where he's attempted to passively-aggressively sabotage the efforts of a committee I'm on by sending conflicting e-mails claiming he knows it all while he refuses to LISTEN. Very aggravating!
