1. Volunteer to be a respondent to a symposium presentation. You have subject matter expertise and the presenter expected you'd be the respondent because of this.
2. One week later, start whining about how the respondent gig is "too close" to another session you're involved in and it's more literary in tone than you're comfortable with.
3. Don't actually say NO, I CAN'T/WON'T DO IT.
4. Instead, suggest names of other people who could fill in (who are already participating in more symposium sessions than you are).
5. All of which make more work for me
a. two days before the deadline for all program changes
b. when I am SWAMPED chasing down other people's missing info
c. when I have NO help (volunteer or otherwise) at the office
6. Tell me how busy YOU are and expect sympathy or that I'll make it easy for you to wriggle off the hook.
7. Say you want to rewrite the info for the ONE session you are still doing because you hate being the only one listed who doesn't have a graduate degree (never mind that this is true).
8. Not actually GIVE me the rewrite, but go on about all the other projects you're in the middle of/past deadline on/whatever.
Because all of this--when I'm stressed to the hilt and trying to keep track of a million other details for 100+ conference sessions over four days and there's still a ton of missing items and I'm up against a press deadline that CANNOT shift to accommodate lackadaisical folks--just makes me want to go David Banner on your ass.
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You have my sympathy, Mary Ellen; I wouldn't want you job. I hope all of your complaints aren't coming from the same person, are they? (Though maybe it would be better for you if they were...only one jerk to take care of!)
I don't want my job, either.
This person has been presenting long enough to know the drill, hence my ire. Even when I spoke with this person on the phone and said "This is a yes or no question; which is it?" I still couldn't get a firm answer. Gah!
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