Re: I need my garden!

Zem, I don't think anyone thought you blamed Melody for anything.
Regardless, her most recent post on it sounds like, while it is a headache,
it will just go through channels.  I'm sure the GS have encountered this
before.  Still, I'm sure as a troop leader, it is very embarrassing.
Kitty
neIN, Z5
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zemuly Sanders" <zsanders@midsouth.rr.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] I need my garden!


> I agree with you completely, Kitty.  I didn't not intend for my post to
> blame Melody for anything.  I just hate for her to be so upset and to feel
> responsible for a dimwit's errors.  But you are right that the  money will
> have to be made up somewhere, and that's the shame of it all.
> zem
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing Center"
> <4042N15@nationalhearing.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 1:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] I need my garden!
>
>
> > Zem, I don't know Melody's exact position and what the chain of
> > responsibility is, but as a far-out-there parallel, look at the
World.com
> > CEO, Ebbers or Eggers or something like that.  He said he wasn't aware
of
> > what the accountants were doing.  But he's in charge, he's responsible.
> > (And
> > in his case, I'm sure he did know)  Additionally, Melody may or may not
be
> > technically responsible, but it's obvious, she feels responsible for
> > having
> > entrusted that responisbility to this woman.
> >
> > She has a mess on her hands and is going to have to go over everything
to
> > find the $700 - it's most likely some sort of bookkeeping error.  But
when
> > all is recounted and recalculated, if $700 is missing, it is that
woman's
> > fault and she should come up with it.  If she won't, the girls are going
> > to
> > have to wash cars or do something to earn the money to pay off their
debt.
> > The Council is just going to have to wait for the money.  The point
being,
> > it isn't Melody's fault, but it is a debt of the group that must be
paid.
> > If the one at fault won't fix it, the group, not Melody, will have to
pay
> > it.  But still, Melody will be sitting under that grey cloud, wishing
she
> > could garden.
> >
> > Kitty
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Zemuly Sanders" <zsanders@midsouth.rr.com>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 10:50 AM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] I need my garden!
> >
> >
> >> Melody, why is resolving the discrepancy your problem?  Seems to me
that
> > if
> >> somebody is responsible for a job they are also accountable for
> >> correcting
> >> the mistakes.  I was well passed middle age before I could truly let
go.
> >> Life is much better now.
> >> zem
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "Melody" <mhobertm@excite.com>
> >> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 9:28 AM
> >> Subject: [CHAT] I need my garden!
> >>
> >>
> >> > You guys know how just the other day I was saying I wished I could
get
> >> > away with doing less sometimes and let other people take over doing
> >> > some
> >> > of the stuff I do? Well, my first real foray into delegating and not
> >> > being so much of a control freak has been a complete and utter
> >> > faillure!!!!!!! A couple of months ago it was time for the annual
Girl
> >> > Scout cookie sale and the job of being a Troop Cookie Manager is
huge!
> >> > Takes a lot of time and energy. So when one of the moms practically
> >> > begged me to let her take over doing this, I thought to myself "I can
> >> > do
> >> > this...I can let this go..." Oh my goodness...the mess I am now left
> >> > trying to fix just makes me wonder what in the heck I was thinking.
> >> > Somehow her collection efforts have come up about $700 dollars
> >> > short...money our troop now owes to the local girl scout council and
> >> > which was due to them yesterday...a fact she only apprised me of at 8
> >> > a.m. yesterday. Hmphhh...I am so stressed out ...I need my
> >> > garden!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it's icy cold and rainy here...times like
> >> > this
> >> > I could almost wish I lived someplace with no winter. Aww,
> >> > anyway...thanks for listening...
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Melody , Hills, IA
> >> >
> >> > "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
> >> > --Albert Einstein
> >> >
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