Masochists Only Please

This showed up in our mail today:

And that's great that the Town of Kearney is looking for a "Regatta Team Leader", except there is no Regatta Team. 

The town put an ad in the Almaguin News recently asking for volunteers and got ZERO responses. No surprise since Mayor Paul Tomlinson chased off all the other volunteers and bullied Councillor Yvonne Wills until she quit. Under Tomlinson's boot volunteers have been treated like crap. Even the so-called "Volunteer Appreciation Dinner" was invite-only and all the plum seats went to Proudfoot property-owners association fat-cats while most volunteers were snubbed.

So now Councillor Louise Wadsworth (who voted against the 2011 Regatta) is looking for a team leader who will have no team. Wadsworth would do the job herself except, like the rest of council, she doesn't want to. Councillor Wills would do it again, but after a year of being bullied, harassed, and abused by Tomlinson, she, like her volunteers, are burned out.

So if you're "an energetic, innovative leader", here's a chance to sit in a room all by yourself while Mayor Tomlinson screams at you for the shitty job you're doing. If you're lucky, Councillor Barry Dingwall might even drop in to smirk at you.

You'll have an "opportunity to reinvent this Kearney tradition". A tradition is basically the handing down of customs from generation to generation. Now that the Proudfoot Four have destroyed our decades-old tradition, you'll get to reinvent it! Under the direct, but distant, supervision of Councillor Wadsworth, who doesn't think there should be a Regatta anyway. But that's okay, because you'll also be constantly micro-managed by Tomlinson anyway.

And let's not forget, you'll have the support of "the Committee that you will build". Good luck with that.

And "a team of volunteers recruited to support the running of this event". See paragraph 3 above.

"Your entrepreneurial flair and creative genius could allow this event to take on new life with renewed energy." New life. The old life was doing just fine thanks, until Inauguration Day 2010. Councillor Wills and her Regatta team of volunteers had plenty of entrepreneurial flair, creative genius, life, and energy until Mayor Tomlinson "supported" them so much they quit. Along with pretty much every other volunteer the town had.

So sign up! Before some other genius scoops up this totally awesome opportunity!