For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 10, 2018

so what do the other six do when loafin’ ’round?

A few days ago, Connie said she was on a hospital board. Hospital boards are usually either an advisory board to provide advice and council to a higher authority or a fiduciary board. Doing work on a hospital project is not really their function. Connie’s comment makes me wonder if she is not on a board but more like a committee as Elly has suggested.

That’s exactly the way it works on most committees!

Are you one of the people who work?

Yeah, that’s pretty much how all jobs go. My store has twenty cashiers, but only a handful of them can move faster than the recommended “scanning rate”, and most are usually too old or two out of shape to do anything physical, meaning that only a handful of us are actually able to get ACTUAL work done.

Actually, as I remember my teaching days, 3 of 9 would actually have been an improvement on our committee’s work vs ‘rest’ ratio.

Exactly like my job when I worked for the City.

Been there, got frustrated.

“Those who will work, get overworked.” Cardwell’s Law of Voluntary Associations

It always falls to the very few to do all the work, while the others sit back and take the credit.

Just like high school, college, and any “work committee” anybody’s ever been on.

Typical, but above average. Average active participation in volunteer organizations is about 5 to 10%

My good friend has to work in a chronically under staffed office.

The larger the committee, the less it gets accomplished!