u/Kodiak01

US/New England.

I live in a town of ~30k where I am an unpaid appointed member of a town commission dealing with environmental issues, outreach, and as an advisory to Zoning and Wetlands boards. I have been a member for a few years now and enjoy being able to make a little bit of a difference to make our town a better place to live. This is a commission that is statutorily limited to the number of any particular political party can be a member of (the rest unenrolled) in order to foster equality and balance in opinions and action.

An issue has just started to fester, however, that I am not sure how to react as it plays out.

There is one member that routinely sends out group emails to the rest of the commission. They are not the only one, and up until now every note/link has been related to areas our commission has some level of local purview. The most recent message, however, went off the political deep end. It was images and links regarding certain taxation issues in other States that even the most deluded of participants would realize is about nine area codes away from anything we handle. Trying to be as tactful as possible, I sent as a group reply:

"What relation to Commission business are we to be considering here?"

to which another member responded:

"I agree with this comment. I hope everyone has a pleasant weekend, try to stay cool!"

In response, the original sender went completely unhinged. I won't post the full response, but there was talk of the "extortion by the crooked and corrupt, criminal, communist, socialist,entitled, marxist, demonic, treasonous,narcissist, state government psychopaths who insanely believe they all walk on water"

So yeah, that...

Now, this Commissioner had already asked about the procedure for resigning at the last meeting, and was given a comprehensive response. My question to everyone here is, should I respond to this with something along the lines of this:

"I am sorry to hear that you are considering resigning from the Commission. As xxxxxx (Town employee that runs our meetings) had detailed the process for this at the most recent meeting, I am sure they would be more than willing to review this with you."

I know it seems somewhat passive aggressive and I realize nothing is going to piss this person off more than remaining 100% professional, but I still have the urge to send it regardless.

I don't remember where or when, but sometimes very long ago I signed up for a service to notify me whenever there were real estate transactions at certain addresses or with certain last names.

I received one such note today. My remaining abuser lives, the one I have been NC with for the past ~20 years.

Apparently there was a real estate transaction registered last month on their home. It was a quitclaim deed assigning the home to my younger sibling, the clear GC their entire life. Last, I knew, they (the sibling) was still living with my older sibling in the already-passed abuser's home that never went through probate (and thus, they can't sell as I'm legally entitled to 1/3rd of the property under State law).

I'm just going to say this preemptively, the same thing I said about my other abuser's passing: I hope they find the peace in death they never afforded anyone around them in life.

They rolled out the new version of Impact this past Monday... This app has turned into a first class turd.

The system no longer remembers the default of seeing 200 entries at a time, now keeps defaulting back to 25. Yay, constant extra clicks to do the same thing as before!

They took away the Save icon in the Print options, meaning now you have to go through the extra steps of manually changing the printer to Save to PDF each time you want to email a diagram. Yay, constant extra clicks to do the same things as before!

Be careful using the Back arrow in the upper right section as you are just as likely to be switched to a truck you worked on hours before as you are getting to the next higher arrangement you were just in.

What is with all this fancy fade in and out bullshit on mouseovers? It has absolutely no actual function other than to suck up additional processing power. Did this come from the same vibe programmer that apparently walked into a McDonalds, fell in love with the Eastern European /r/brutalism colors and design, and thought, "I want to get me some more of that!" It's enough to give a migraine.

I could go on and on...

MIL died 2 years ago from cancer. FIL is in assisted living. Their old house is in the final stages of being prepped for sale.

They had one of those slab stones buried in the front of the house by the door with their name on it, ie. "The Smiths". SIL asked me to pull it out as it was one of the last items to go. This thing is about 24x20, weighs well over 100lbs, and has been riding in the back seat of my car for weeks now, wrapped up in blankets, while trying to figure out what to do with it. Both wife and SIL have taken their new last names, and as far as I know FIL doesn't have anyone else in his family to take it.

It just doesn't feel right tossing it in the dumpster...

13.5 years in on this go around here, already paid very well. Straight hourly with department-wide bonus structure, ample OT available as well.

4.5% raise this year. Boss tempered request because of how tight the economy is and what others at management and higher level have been saying. When he told me, he said they agreed so easily to it that he should have asked for more (and next time, he plans to.) Apparently many others are going to get little to nothing because they haven't shown initiative in various voluntary areas or constantly mess up simple stuff.

Oh, and also recently got an Amazon gift card to thank me for being proactive on inventory control items.

It's nice to have a boss that you can trust will take care of you.