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Shoot me now!
I am on a national committee that does very important work for my profession, tenure is 5 years, there are 5 of us. Once a year we all must fly to a specific locale for 3 days where we are all locked in a room together until our job is done.
The job we are doing is a very big deal, it directly affects the careers of about 40 other people in a major way (as in they maybe don't have a career depending on how well we complete our task).
Of course in an endeavor like this there will be a mix of personalities. My problem is that I feel that one of my fellow committee members is actually insane. No consensus can be reached because everything must ultimately be his way. He is rude to the point of other committee members storming out of the room. Most of the committee time consists of pointlessly beating ones head against the wall.
Last year I was committee chair, it was my opinion that this individual needed to be removed from the committee due to escalating insanity throughout the year (we have a second big push of effort in June). The president of our organization agreed by June and was willing to act, but by the time it got to that point, she was out-going president and I was out-going committee chair. She left the decision up to the new committee chair and prez., who of course decided not to act. Thus the insane person remains. He is very intelligent but absolutely unable to act in any sort of cooperative manner.
So I was left with a few unpleasant options:
1. Quit the committee myself, leaving a big void of knowledge specific to this committe. Although I can be replaced, it is not possible to replace me with someone who has served on committee chair in the past (by the rules of this committee)
2. Continue on until my tenure is up, but with a lack of confidence that we are doing a fair job with our task, and by doing so, seriously affecting the careers of numerous other people
So I picked option 2, I leave tomorrow and can only hope my head does not explode over the weekend! No idea why I posted this here, maybe just for moral support.
H
I am on a national committee that does very important work for my profession, tenure is 5 years, there are 5 of us. Once a year we all must fly to a specific locale for 3 days where we are all locked in a room together until our job is done.
The job we are doing is a very big deal, it directly affects the careers of about 40 other people in a major way (as in they maybe don't have a career depending on how well we complete our task).
Of course in an endeavor like this there will be a mix of personalities. My problem is that I feel that one of my fellow committee members is actually insane. No consensus can be reached because everything must ultimately be his way. He is rude to the point of other committee members storming out of the room. Most of the committee time consists of pointlessly beating ones head against the wall.
Last year I was committee chair, it was my opinion that this individual needed to be removed from the committee due to escalating insanity throughout the year (we have a second big push of effort in June). The president of our organization agreed by June and was willing to act, but by the time it got to that point, she was out-going president and I was out-going committee chair. She left the decision up to the new committee chair and prez., who of course decided not to act. Thus the insane person remains. He is very intelligent but absolutely unable to act in any sort of cooperative manner.
So I was left with a few unpleasant options:
1. Quit the committee myself, leaving a big void of knowledge specific to this committe. Although I can be replaced, it is not possible to replace me with someone who has served on committee chair in the past (by the rules of this committee)
2. Continue on until my tenure is up, but with a lack of confidence that we are doing a fair job with our task, and by doing so, seriously affecting the careers of numerous other people
So I picked option 2, I leave tomorrow and can only hope my head does not explode over the weekend! No idea why I posted this here, maybe just for moral support.
H