Anand Kumria wrote:
> Only if you have access to the books!
>
> What was the point of writing my emails if all you intend to do
> is latch on to the keyword you know about and sally forth with a brain
> dump?
>
> Not all of us are 'babes in the woods', some of us have done this stuff
> before.
Chill Anand. I'm not having a go at you, or anyone else on the Slug
committee.
I am taking an opportunity to educate a few of those 500+ people on this
list who might one day decide to go onto the Slug committee.
It is advice that is worth repeating for anyone so that people know it
is normal before they get on committees, etc. I've seen people elected
to committees take it as a personal afront that someone else has to
co-sign an organisation cheque. Naturally they have to accept that
situation or their resignation gets accepted and the committee has to
recruit another person.
And the co-signature has to be after the cheque is filled in - been
caught on that too.
It is a wonderful job trying to build the accounts for a couple of years
with only bank statements. It is even better having to say about $125K
of government grants is "all that I can say is that it has been spent
and there is no evidence of misuse of funds".
It also doesn't hurt for people to realise that committee people
"disappear". This will sometime happen, for various reasons to any
organisation. Dummy spits, radical life changes/opportunities, work
requirement, etc are all valid reasons for this happening.
The biggest problem is "when to move and take over". I've had Mick the
treasurer get told by work with one weeks notice that he has to go
overseas for three months and the last thing on his mind is XYZ books,
but he tells Fred his mate, also on the committee, who promptly leaves
for four months long service leave trip around Australia and doesn't
tell anyone else where Mick has gone. By the time Mick pops back into
circulation, everything is duplicated and Mick is no longer treasurer
and no longer on the committee. Try patching that one up.
The committee pulled off Linux Conf. I don't think you are idiots.
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