Here we go again

Last night I was on the phone with Mark, the Dining Hall Director from Camp, for an hour and a half. Here we go again.

This past weekend was an Order of the Arrow function. This is an honor society group associated with Boy Scouts. It's a smaller more dedicated group, and there are as many adult members as boys. Bunch of gossipy old women if you ask me. Goodness Gracious! Mark called full of all sorts of stories about backstabbing, conspiracies, coups and rumors. The stuff these people come up with. Also the way things get spread out over time. Problems that were in effect all summer are just now being discussed. Who will be in charge and how it's going to be next summer are all big topics of conversation. This is funny to me as we are nearly eight months away from camp. I mean I'm all for planning, but a lot changes for a lot of these boys around X-mas time and then we have to rework the whole system over again anyway.

Further, the different perspectives on the same issue are always amusing. It ranges from "These boys are examples and should be held to the highest standards" to "Boys will be boys" to "That's what we did when we were in camp" to "That's just camp..." Everyone's got an opinion and a "solution."

Like I said, here we go again.

Mostly I guess I find it disheartening that so little actually changes because of these discussions. Mostly it's just wind. And a lot of posturing.

Mark often tells me about how he's quit or so and so has said that they aren't gonna take this anymore or (and this is my favorite) how so and so put so and so in his place. High Drama!

Then there are also the complaints, "Sandy made medlodge a social hang-out!" "Mark is not customer friendly!" "There were too many people in this area and not enough in this one." "This department was run poorly!" "We should have had this instead of this..." Nothing in terms of constructive mind you, just putting down, insulting complaints.

Sometimes I wish I was in OA. I do a lot of work for the scouts and would like the recognition, but after just an hour of Mark's summary I'm pretty sick of the whole group, I can't imagine a whole weekend. I'm not clear what this whole process has to do with service anyway...

Here we go again.