If you’ve read the last blog post, you know that I volunteer a lot with charities and local organizations. As per the last post, I recently ended all in school affiliation with one of the charities.  An update for anyone who was following that story: The in school arm of that charity is on indefinite hiatus. The official line from “Alfie” is that he was tired of leading the group, since he was of equal status to the rest of us, aside from slightly more experience, which is shared by his sidekick and myself. Therefore, he was no longer going to take the leadership role. I am very much fine with that. Since most of the asian kids in the group are  reactive rather than proactive, it was about time. I didn’t want him to lead anymore either, since not much was done anyways (again, see previous post). That may have been partially my fault (since I wasn’t at the district meetings), but I had forewarned everyone that I had other volunteering and school commitments which were already in place. If they pick a time that was never convenient for me, what can I do

So anyways, the following is the reason for this blog post. Because I am a third party to the whole fiasco ( have already renounced my membership), I feel I have the ability to accurate stab the shit out of this situation.

What got me onto this particular rant was the fact that emails from the CITY arm of the youth “leaders” (the real word has nothing to do with leadership, but for the sake of story telling, let’s call them “leaders”) for the charity  have started coming into my gmail. I am completely unaware of the happenings of the other inschool groups, mostly because I don’t go to those schools (surprise surprise). Apparently, one student leader deicded to take action and get an event going in cooperation with the business class that she is enrolled in at school. This idea was shot down by members of another group of student leaders. In an attempt to bring understanding to this issue of LACK OF COMMUNICATION, she (let’s call her Lily) decides to send an email WHILE SHE IS IN ASIA to clarify what may have been misunderstood between the groups. 
Here’s the best part: rather than take this as a sign of remorse and try to work this out, 2 OTHER “oh so special and gifted student leaders decide to shoot her down. Brilliant.

 First of all: the hypocrisy. NOTHING annoys me more than blatant hypocrisy (ok, that’s a lie, but it’s among the top). The bottom part of email from “Soap” (that’s what well call one of the 2 special children) says: you had no right, nor any power to, commit such action. And you were not authorized to do so. At the top part of this email? And I again speak for the rest of [the school]. First of all, we already had appointed a leader for the school of the special children and THESE special fuckers aren’t the leaders. Under what authority do you have to speak as a representative of 1800 students? Who the hell died and made you queen of the crop? Here’s an idea: if you are going to accuse someone of assuming too much of a leadership role: do yourself a favor and don’t put yourself in the same position. You sound like a pompous bitch.

Again, here are some quotes from Soap’s email.

- … because of those flaws, I can only take your words as insincere and dishonest response used as an excuse for your unacceptable actions.
- I hope you understand that there’s no way that [charity] will be in this anymore …
-  …resorted to fake nicety, hiding your true intentions and feelings

The second quote further emphasizes the first problem: Soap is doing the same crap that she’s accusing Lily of doing. The third quote is further emphasis of Soap being a pompous bitch. She’s sending an email minutes before her flight just to make sure you people understood why she did what she did. And you have the decency to go off on an tangent on how wrong she is and how it’s not her place?  

Ok, so Lily made some mistakes on the way. But WAIT A MINUTE. SHE WAS ACTUALLY DOING SHIT. So what have you 6 schools and your collective student leaders and the student body done for the charity for the past 7 monthes? You made Christmas cards to fundraise? did you? OH RIGHT. You people scrapped that plan when something FINALLY clicked in your minds and you people actually realized that the cards were to be hand made and no one would buy fucking construction paper and white glue christmas cards made by a bunch of self righteous high school kids. What else hacve you done? Oh, sell cookies? oh right, that fundraiser. The one where we raised about 20 bucks. Congratulations. Student Council and 4 kids from another club created a combined fundraising activity and raised well over $2000 for Unicef and World Vision. Run a marathon? forget it. You’re gonna be passing out water and chips next month for this event. 
At least Lily had the guts and balls to go out by herself and try to make a difference. The Citywide leader disapproved of her actions is a university student who doesn’t even seem to do shit for the charity. He takes an average of 4-5 days to reply to a single urgent email, IF YOURE LUCKY. Otherwise, good luck waiting for a response.  

Where do we go wrong? 

well, there’s a couple things we can do:

• plan a fucking event
• consider the scale and logistics of said event
• ensure that the event makes sense to the people around you
• make sure that all credit is given where its due
• if there is a problem, TALK IT OUT. Explain your side, listen to the other side, and try to collaborate for a solution.
• ensure everyone has a voice in all discussions and decisions
• PUBLICISE THE EVENT
• execute the event
• and if worse comes to worse, dont be a pompous bitch

By the way? The final bit of the email is this: I have a business club at [school] as well, and also a Junior Achievement. And did I even think of taking the [charity] for my own? You aren’t the only business person here. 
 OH SHIT. She has a BUSINESS CLUB. and she’s a JUNIOR ACHIEVER. and she aint the ONLY BUSINESS PERSON IN TOWN. I’m scared now. Of course she would have such authority to question the actions of everyone. She’s a JUNIOR ACHIEVER. Beat that. The queen has arrived. God save Soap.

Maybe all hypocrites burn in everlasting hydrofluoric acid.