How many chances do you get?

Or an alternative title would be, "as long as council gets their money, they don't give a hoot about the girls or the community."

I get so frustrated with our council. Nothing like having them reinforce time and time again, that all they care about is the money.

That leader who I have complained about before. The one who broke the rules at the Halloween parade and whose float ran over a parents foot, the one who broke the rules of cookie sales and there was photographic proof of what she was doing wrong, the one who did not turn in her financial report till September, and the one who did not give her girls badges they earned and lied about camp requirements so she did not take them on a trip? (I just found that out, but I don't think I wrote about it. Her assistant leader is now getting a troop of her own and sharing all kinds of details about what went on)

Yeah they are letting her keep her troop and take on new girls.

So there are no consequences when you break the rules.

There are no repercussions for failing the girls you are supposed to be leading.

As long as you bring in that cookie profit, you can keep doing what you are doing.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

The Meeting that Wasn't

I don't know if it is just my council or if it is a common problem, but reps just don't make meetings!

Yesterday my co-leader was supposed to meet with our council rep for her adult training. She gets to McDonalds at 5:15 because she had her daughter and figures that they would get dinner. She was supposed to meet the rep at 5:30.

5:45 I get a text saying that the rep is not here yet, WTH!

I know that the rep knows that she is supposed to be there because I sent her an email earlier in the day with a troop roster and to let her know the Miss B is going to have a new girl registration and check. She acknowledged that she would see B there.

And I know that Miss B is getting angrier with every passing minute.

5:55 she sends me a text saying she is leaving, and quiet frankly, I don't blame her.

Ten minutes later my phone is ringing.

Our rep called her and asked if she was running late. Miss B said she had sat there for 45 minutes before she left and that she was not coming back.

And really you can not expect a child to sit for 45 minutes and then go back and sit longer. Even the best kid will have trouble with that.

Turns out that the Rep was sitting there the whole time. Unfortunately Miss B had never met the rep before. And I guess the rep didn't know what she looked like either. 

Miss B offers to do it again next week and is told that it would be the 24th before the rep can come back and do the training.

BUT this is not the first time that this has happened!

Once with a different rep, my co-leader of the time and I sat for an hour waiting for a rep to meet with us. We called her several times, sent text messages and did not hear anything from her until the next day when she said that she had forgotten about us.

It is absolutely frustrating. These are supposed to be the PAID people who are there to help you and they can't be bothered to make a meeting or a phone call or even get up from her seat and walk around looking for someone.

As is becoming my mantra, "Thank god the girls are awesome!"