Pot Luck Moral Dilemma

[Rhea]

So if you are organizing a thing, and you're going to put up a sign-up, is it wrong to just go ahead and make your pick first - since you're the one doing the organizing?

Or do you feel that publish date is publish date and you have to get in line like everyone else?

 

[DolphinDynasty]

So if you are organizing a thing, and you're going to put up a sign-up, is it wrong to just go ahead and make your pick first - since you're the one doing the organizing?

Or do you feel that publish date is publish date and you have to get in line like everyone else?

Huh, never thought abut it. Only time I organized a thing it was friends 21st Birthday party/Halloween bash, cuz she was born the night before. I said I'd provide my apt for the party and the cake, everything else would be on someone else. So they came by early, that is her sister, best friend and her, so her sister could decorate, and her best friend brought cups, plates some liquor and had ordered food he was gonna pick up. I watched them mve stuff so my kitchen table could get cleared and used for food and drink. My friend even brought a thick papery tablecloth from where I worked (hospital kitchen, which was all she did except provide what music she wanted and dong the invites. (Shrug) It worked out fine and nobody bate an eye when I said what I would contribute first.

Of curse her family did anther party early on in the day for her, but this was for her and her friends who couldn't do the early party.

I know nothing on how to organize a potluck, though.

 

[braces_for_impact]

I know at a past job I had we had potlucks pretty often, and it was common that the organizer would start off the list by cooking or bringing this or that. I was never offended, and I never knew of anyone else being so.

 

[steve_bank]

WOW, and here I was thinking I had problems.

 

[Rhea]

WOW, and here I was thinking I had problems.

I know, right? These things are serious!
If I post the sign-up and say, “For teacher appreciation week, pick a day to host the pot luck, I’ll just go ahead and choose MOnday, m’kay?” And everybody knows Monday is the easiest, is it wrong for me to put my name on Monday when I create it and no one else has even seen the sign-up yet? But hey, since I’m the volunteer making the sign-ups, I’m essentially doing the extra work in advance, right?

These things can make or break a PTA.

 

[bilby]

WOW, and here I was thinking I had problems.

I know, right? These things are serious!
If I post the sign-up and say, “For teacher appreciation week, pick a day to host the pot luck, I’ll just go ahead and choose MOnday, m’kay?” And everybody knows Monday is the easiest, is it wrong for me to put my name on Monday when I create it and no one else has even seen the sign-up yet? But hey, since I’m the volunteer making the sign-ups, I’m essentially doing the extra work in advance, right?

These things can make or break a PTA.

Sounds more like a PiTA.

 

[Keith&Co.]

No, it only makes sense that you pick as long as you're making up the form.

A rule in our family is that a complaint is an automatic brag that you could do/have done better. if anyone starts to bitch, smile and thank them. "Okay, great, you can organize it next year, show me how it's done!"