incompetence!

end May: it is decided at the AGM that a meeting needs to be set up with the people in the town hall to find out how our building can be 'legalised' (i'll spare you the story)

14/06: amazingly, our manager, who has this last year shown quite a lot of incompetence, actually sets up a meeting for 26/06 - finally. she says she'll send all the owners a letter with this info

22/06: i call up said manager to ask whether she's just sent the letter to the people not on the 'board' (i.e. those who already know about the meeting through her email), as i hadn't received anything yet. no, no, the letter was sent to all, we should receive it today, she says. ... i decide against asking her why it's taken her a week to send the letter and decide instead to point out that this leaves very little time for people to get organised seen as it's Friday, most people in the area start taking long weekends when the weather's nice and the meeting's on Tuesday morning. she doesn't get it. did i want as many people as possible to make the meeting? well, yes, that would be an idea. but at least give people some time to find out if they can miss a meeting that takes place on a working day during working hours. she sounds like she's not getting my point.

25/06: i call up the manager to ask how many people have replied. 2. one would come, one couldn't. right. but as it seemed people weren't going to notify her either way and as there wasn't time to find out whether people might come along without telling her, she said she'd go to the meeting and at least get the info and then we could always reschedule another meeting later. problem: it is notoriously difficult, if not impossible to get a meeting with these people. if she goes tomorrow, they won't have time for us later. i ask her to send me an email by closing to let me know of any other replies and i'd make a decision based on that information. 8pm: no email. am pretty sure she only works 9-5. this unfortunately comforts me in my position on her as a manager: useless.

26/06: 8am, still no email. am clearly going to the meeting if only to ensure someone gets the right information.