Zoe Girl
3-25-15, 10:01pm
i am going into a lot of frustration around the summer camp plans i am making.
i am blending my camp with another program and 2 of us wrote a proposal including schedules and budgets and a name. then she left! oh dear, and i went ahead to work with the guy who is the supervisor. He came late to one meeting, another he admitted being unprepared, his marketing materials did not include the name we chose, and then he starts talking about different rotations and groupings. So basically i think he did not read the proposal. i answered his email with direct communication that was clear and professional, not rude, but then i called the person who quit to vent and get a phone number of someone also involved in this. well about an hour later i get a call saying he heard i was frustrated. this was literally the only person i trusted to share with and there is a leak. i apologized a lot and then explained my frustration with the camp process this year, not so much about him. But it did include that we got no responses to our proposal (including him) and i had expected to adjust based on feedback a month ago when we submitted it by the due date.
well he must have really listened because today i get an email from a supervisor up the line saying that my proposal is fine, who is also going to be sharing space in the building with our camp and that it is okay to move forward with the next steps. despite cringing over how it happened i am so relieved to have these answers. i want to correct some things i did last year by not being clear on approvals. meanwhile i can still look like crap but i can look like crap for the homeless issue or the 4 goal systems or my numbers.
i am blending my camp with another program and 2 of us wrote a proposal including schedules and budgets and a name. then she left! oh dear, and i went ahead to work with the guy who is the supervisor. He came late to one meeting, another he admitted being unprepared, his marketing materials did not include the name we chose, and then he starts talking about different rotations and groupings. So basically i think he did not read the proposal. i answered his email with direct communication that was clear and professional, not rude, but then i called the person who quit to vent and get a phone number of someone also involved in this. well about an hour later i get a call saying he heard i was frustrated. this was literally the only person i trusted to share with and there is a leak. i apologized a lot and then explained my frustration with the camp process this year, not so much about him. But it did include that we got no responses to our proposal (including him) and i had expected to adjust based on feedback a month ago when we submitted it by the due date.
well he must have really listened because today i get an email from a supervisor up the line saying that my proposal is fine, who is also going to be sharing space in the building with our camp and that it is okay to move forward with the next steps. despite cringing over how it happened i am so relieved to have these answers. i want to correct some things i did last year by not being clear on approvals. meanwhile i can still look like crap but i can look like crap for the homeless issue or the 4 goal systems or my numbers.