It’s so satisfying to witness a person redeem themselves. My Problem Child at work is mainly a problem because she has focus issues wedded to an extrememly passive aggressive personality. She’s your best friend one minute, then jumps down your throat the next. She’s tough to keep on task and she’s a “self starter” (a phrase I personally dread), meaning that she loves to start projects that she sees as being required to be done whether or not the project meshes with the organizational plan for the workplace.
HOWEVER, she is very good at working her contacts. And she seems to have helped us out of a big bind.
We are planning our annual fall event. Usually we get the assistance of a group of solider who are tasked to work the event. These soldiers go out in their big solider truck, pick up our tents and tables and etc. and set up our event stuff. After the event they break everything down and return it. This year, we are not getting any official soldiers to do this. We have been trying to get volunteers through the offical volunteer channels here, no luck. We have been asking for volunteers to work and earn time off, no luck. So today we started asking everyone we know to volunteer and “PC” may have struck gold. Apparently she’s found some soldiers (and they may even have a truck) to help us set up and tear down for the event. HOORAY!
Now we’ll see how everything pans out.
**fingers crossed**
Sparkly Things 