Coral reefer
Past President
@Turkeysammich has been doing some pretty cool things by taking in corals and fish from tank breakdowns and distributing them to club members.
I know this can ruffle feathers at times as people want to get things and feel like they should have been first in line or whatever.
There are times when someone just needs a thing gone and whoever can take it they are fine to with that. It’s up to them. That’s fine.
There are other times when someone posts they want the animals to go to good homes and the equipment to be out to good use. That’s cool too.
There are other times when people buy a system to break it down, part it out, maybe keep some and sell the rest, that’s ok too.
I don’t think it’s cool if people give stuff away and then it gets sold. My opinion. Now worries of you don’t share it.
I also don’t think it’s realistic for a lot of people to have done what wil did over the last couple days. He did it. Again. It benefits the club at large. It helps the person donating their stuff to deal with one person.
He isn’t being greedy. He isn’t hate keeping. He’s putting his body where his heart is and doing the work, and spending the money to hire movers when necessary, and driving multiple hours to make it happen. And then after all that spending the time to get everything situated, and fragged, and mounted. It’s a lot. Trust me.
The kicker is, at the end when he is doing all this for little personal gain, sometimes none, the thanks he gets is being criticized and blamed and accused behind the scenes by people who feel wronged.
I’ve experienced this when I was on the board for over a decade, and it really sucks, and made me want to quit.
Luckily wil is older, wiser, and believes in the goodness of the club. Which is great, because most of the time most of us are just that.
Let’s remember we are all here together to get better at being better to our animals, and we are animals, so let’s be as good as we can to each other.
ASSUME THE BEST OF EACH OTHER AS MUCH AS YOU CAN. PLEASE!
I know this can ruffle feathers at times as people want to get things and feel like they should have been first in line or whatever.
There are times when someone just needs a thing gone and whoever can take it they are fine to with that. It’s up to them. That’s fine.
There are other times when someone posts they want the animals to go to good homes and the equipment to be out to good use. That’s cool too.
There are other times when people buy a system to break it down, part it out, maybe keep some and sell the rest, that’s ok too.
I don’t think it’s cool if people give stuff away and then it gets sold. My opinion. Now worries of you don’t share it.
I also don’t think it’s realistic for a lot of people to have done what wil did over the last couple days. He did it. Again. It benefits the club at large. It helps the person donating their stuff to deal with one person.
He isn’t being greedy. He isn’t hate keeping. He’s putting his body where his heart is and doing the work, and spending the money to hire movers when necessary, and driving multiple hours to make it happen. And then after all that spending the time to get everything situated, and fragged, and mounted. It’s a lot. Trust me.
The kicker is, at the end when he is doing all this for little personal gain, sometimes none, the thanks he gets is being criticized and blamed and accused behind the scenes by people who feel wronged.
I’ve experienced this when I was on the board for over a decade, and it really sucks, and made me want to quit.
Luckily wil is older, wiser, and believes in the goodness of the club. Which is great, because most of the time most of us are just that.
Let’s remember we are all here together to get better at being better to our animals, and we are animals, so let’s be as good as we can to each other.
ASSUME THE BEST OF EACH OTHER AS MUCH AS YOU CAN. PLEASE!
