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It’s wrong, it is just so wrong…

I want to write about how you people from the top should step down from your pedestals in the clouds to the earth sometimes so as to understand how hard your volunteers are working to keep things going, but I am but only one voice.

I want to write about how you people from the top should stop shirking your responsibilities and pushing all your duties to others, especially since you are supposed to be in charge of the entire project, but I may get sued by you.

I want to write about the unnecessary ongoing changes the NDP committee and you people from the top are proposing and making, thus creating chaos and unravelling the hours and days and months of teaching and coordinating the training officers have done, but those are classified information.

I want to write about how generating publicity and good ticket sales comes from good marketing tactics and strategies, and not from taking advantage / making use of / milking your volunteers dry, but you guys are too fixated on your goals to listen to reason.

I want to write about how a word / an email / an sms of thanks from the staff-in-charge-of-that-particular-project can go a long way in keeping your volunteers by your side, motivated and appreciated, but this has been touched on to death since a long time ago and no changes have been made.

I want to write about how you people from the top should recognise that your volunteers are also human and we, like you, have our own commitments - while you leave at 6pm to go home to your family, your volunteers are staying back late to iron out the kinks in your project -, but you have already turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to all these [Besides, the people more worthy of writing / touching on this issue are the committee members who have thrown their hearts and souls, sweat and blood into the project, not little T.O me].

How can this ever go on?

s t a r m | s t July 25th, 2005

• the harsh critic , the volunteer