I do alot to bring this to the success that it has been. Making table centerpieces and individual gifts at each place for 40 people. Getting the hall setting up the menu… calling and getting prizes for a Chinese raffle
and picking up the donations and sticking to a very low budget and spending $40 dollars of my own money. Bringing music… blah blah… after the party was over the restruant left the left over food in a box on the table and a women went over to the table and took all of the food.. I am so mad after all the work I feel I should at least had some say in where it went…
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May 22nd, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Next time you see her ask which shelter she gave the food to. Let her know that you think the group should make the decision as to which shelter should get the food next time.
If she took the food home she will be very embarrassed but she will not do it again. If she confesses that she took it home tell her she should make a donation to a shelter ASAP.
May 22nd, 2010 at 2:55 pm
She was unbelievably rude and penny pinching! That’s such a low act! With absolutely no respect for you nor to the other car club members. I hope she chokes on it in guilt.
On a positive note, at your next meeting, or in your next newsletter, you could mention what happened without naming names and say that you had intended to donate the leftover food to a nearby charity.
May 22nd, 2010 at 3:13 pm
I’m on your side. People who take things without the right to do so are wrong. You have to get burocratic and bring this up to the club’s managers. If you do the same thing next year (organize the restaurant party) make sure both the club’s managers and the restaurant are on the same page about where extra food goes.
How to deal with the woman who took the food- I like the suggestion about “Which shelter did you take the food to?” That gives her an acceptable excuse. If she lies and says “This one shelter,” let her off the hook. You made your point and she’ll know she’s lying.
Part of your issue is with your generosity- you do a lot and seem to get little recognition. You can fix this by both getting the club to let you take charge of the food and by taking a bit of control in this with the restaurant, too.
Good on ya for belonging to a car club! I was going to join the Procrastinator’s Club, but I never got around to it.
May 22nd, 2010 at 3:56 pm
Raise it at the next meeting, publicly. Say that you had asked the restaurant to put all the leftover food in a box for a local shelter but that when you went to collect it, they told you someone else had taken it. Mention how disappointed you are that someone would do this without mentioning it to the organising committee, and that you feel it is very inappropriate to somply take stuff everyone has paid for without any consultation.
Then simply leave it at that. There is really nothing you can do at this stage, and you have learned a valuable lesson many organisers have also had to learn ~ make sure you let the restaurant/function centre/team members know that NOTHING goes in, or out, without reference to a committee member and ensure the committee members are well known to all!
But don’t dwell on it too much! What goes around comes around. You started the new year doing something for others, she started it taking from others. Watch how the year develops for you both …
Best wishes