Ready for It To Be Over
Mar. 9th, 2009 02:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisI can't wait for the DCDC convention to be over & done. I'm so tired of having to play nice with drama queens publicly stamping their feet and squealing about how evil we are for not telepathically intuiting their every need.
I understand now why smaller clubs implode and longtime veterans vanish from sight after running a convention: it's too emotionally demanding to not call out the psychos and nutjobs on their destructive behaviors after it's all over, because then we look like the unreasonable ones. It's easier to just walk away.
If I could, I'd tell them to go f*** themselves, they're asking far too much from people who have lives outside of committee work, real jobs in the real world and must devote our time & energy to actual problems rather than their imagined ones.
Sadly, I'm a core staffer and consider myself a professional so I will restrain myself for the next 30-odd days, suck it up and move on. I refuse to let the sociopaths destroy everything accomplished thus far. At least I now know the names of the bigger drama queens and can make a point of avoiding them entirely once this entire event is over.
The joy of public service and volunteering is vastly overrated.
I understand now why smaller clubs implode and longtime veterans vanish from sight after running a convention: it's too emotionally demanding to not call out the psychos and nutjobs on their destructive behaviors after it's all over, because then we look like the unreasonable ones. It's easier to just walk away.
If I could, I'd tell them to go f*** themselves, they're asking far too much from people who have lives outside of committee work, real jobs in the real world and must devote our time & energy to actual problems rather than their imagined ones.
Sadly, I'm a core staffer and consider myself a professional so I will restrain myself for the next 30-odd days, suck it up and move on. I refuse to let the sociopaths destroy everything accomplished thus far. At least I now know the names of the bigger drama queens and can make a point of avoiding them entirely once this entire event is over.
The joy of public service and volunteering is vastly overrated.
