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As you'll be aware if you've followed Day 149 and Day 151, this past week has been hellish. I have been agonizing about this meeting. Fortunately, when I got home from work, the chairperson invited me over to her place, and we sat down and planned out what was going to be said and the things that we wanted to have accomplished. The chairperson was all... I'm not even going to give them a chance to speak! By the time we were done, I was much calmer about the whole thing.

After all that build up, the meeting itself was anticlimactic. There were two other people there. This is for a committee that has sixteen people on it. Yeah. Nice. So the chairperson stood up and basically said, I'm your chairperson. I'm responsible for making up the agendas and dealing with applications that come in and responding back to applicants. Judith is the secretary. She's responsible for taking the minutes and distributing the minutes and the agendas. Those are our jobs. Everything else is someone else's job. Let's start.

She picked up the application of the couple that I interviewed on Friday and said Judith has finished the interview process. The next step is to check references. And she picked one of the two ladies there. The lady started to say oh but... and the chairperson cut her off. She said do you want this unit filled? The lady replied with well yes but. The chairperson cut her off again. Then I'm asking you to do this. Fine the lady said and took the application. I guess by that time she'd scared the other woman so much that when she got her assignment she didn't say anything, she just nodded.

We started the meeting at 7:02PM. We finished at 7:25PM.

We'll see how the next one goes.

This is related to Tuesday's post in that by being reliable and dependable, I ended up having to set up a meeting with and interview a couple who applied to move into our co-op. Because I had no prior experience doing this and had not been given ANY TRAINING in the guidelines or procedures I was supposed to follow, I was practically sick to my stomach the whole time leading up to the interview.

The interview actually went well. The couple was very nice and as I've only been in the co-op a little over a year, I remembered what was asked during my interview and asked them the same questions. So it was a good experience that I may be able to use in the future.