Categories: journal
Date: 05 December 2008 13:38:53
A lady who has worked for our after school club for as long as I can remember has resigned. I expected to see her this morning, but I've been told that yesterday was her last day. The thing is that as a (now former) member of the management committee, I know better than most the reasons why she has left. Indeed, my wife tells me that the lady has written a letter, blaming the committee for her departure (I haven't read the letter, but I understand that it is on a noticeboard somewhere).
My daughter asked me yesterday, "Why is [she] leaving?" I didn't know what to say, but my daughter had asked the playleader the same question, and been told, "It's complicated." I wonder to what extent one of the fundamental difficulties here is that a resignation was handed in (indeed it was - in fact, she handed the letter to me, principally because I was the only member of the committee who regularly brought a child to the breakfast club), but perhaps its meaning was not, "I no longer wish to work for the club," but rather, "I am unhappy about something."
I've been praying for a different resolution - that a way could have been found for this lady to continue to work for the club - but that prayer seems to have been answered in the negative.