Board of Directors
Cat Shelter
RE: Resignation
Dear Friends:
I have come to realize that the strengths I have to offer our organization are best used in capacities other than as serving on the Board of Directors for The Shelter. I am submitting my resignation from the board, effective 31 May 2008.
I would be pleased to continue to do once weekly health checks of the cats, and to assist with any fund raising and community outreach programs if this will be of service to the organization. It has been a privilege to work with the board, and I look forward to donating time to The Shelter in the future.
Sincerely,
Salamander
All I wanted for yesterday was a plot of time for myself. I wanted to go somewhere where I could reflect on the past five years without being considered boring or maudlin. I timed it so that The Professor would be occupied at the gym. He doesn't say it, but I know he thinks I'm too self-absorbed about these things.
I was getting ready to go out grocery shopping, with plans to spend a little time for myself first. Then I got a call from one of the volunteers. They waited until one hour before the place were the kittens are kept to call, though they'd known of the problem the entire day. I'm over half-an-hour away. A kitten has severe diarrhea. No, they couldn't stay. They had a "gentleman friend" waiting. No offer to drop the kitten at the local emergency clinic. No offer to call anyone else. They never even bothered to ask if they were interrupting anything. Obviously, their time was more important than mine. Who knows, maybe it was. I need to start hanging around people where my time is important too.
I tried to get someone else, but no one on the board for whom I had a number was picking up. I had to drop my plans, drive 16+ miles to the shelter, quick check all the kittens to make sure nobody else had a problem, then run the kitten to the emergency clinic nearby.
I shouldn't have been so angry that this fell to me. But I was, and I am. I need to distance myself from the shelter, before I start calling volunteers insensitive assholes, thus firmly placing myself in the same category.