Packishness

[bodldops]

Well, got a bit of confirmation of sorts, I suppose. I've always felt that I've been kinda on the outskirts of the PPC. Some people know who I am, and an even fewer number have actually talked to me beyond the "Hi there"... but I'm not popular. I suppose a good deal of that is my fault, since I only post where I think I can make a contribution to the conversation, and I tend to miss introductory posts.
Now it's not that I don't agree with Bjam. I do, wholeheartedly. In fact, I said something similar a few months back. But when I complained about the state of the board, I was told I was way off-base. *shrugs* Maybe I'm just not as clear in my writing, or maybe because I don't post as often as some. I'll take my place as a gamma PPCer.

Annnnnyway, enough whining from me.

Work today was interesting. Our relief vet, Dr. Thompson, was running the hospital today... and she was ticked off. Someone in upper managment told her that "They feel that she is too overwhelmed, and should not take any more cats to rescue". This absolutely wonderful vet takes our sickest, most beat up, saddest of sad cases, patches them up at her own clinic, and adopts them out to good homes. She is absolutely brilliant with cats. I have now sworn to take my own cat to her instead of the local chain-practice vet. And she _loves_ her rescue work. She couldn't believe that someone else, who barely knew her, would make a decision about how stressed she was. She was crying over this one black cat that was an owner surrender. Reason for surrender? Hit by car. No joke. Poor kitten had a messed up rear right leg, and would only let Dr. Thompson pet him (because cats just seem to trust her), and they wouldn't let her take him. *rolls eyes at managment* When I left the doc was heading towards a meeting with managment to set a few things straight. I hope she won, because she is a Godsend.

Comments

[nenya_kanadka]

Hermmmm....

I do remember someone posting about the state of the board a while back...that was probably you? I don't remember what I said at the time, but I think that then I was still posting a lot and it didn't seem to be a really dire situation. But after reading your LJ post, which led me to go check the PPC board, I find that my slow drifting away from the board to things like LJ and the chat isn't unique. Other people are feeling the same--so perhaps it's not just me being weird.

I did notice that people posted badfic/goodfic of the day and a political debate quite soon after Bjam's post, in an effort to improve things. Perhaps if we keep this up, it'll get better...?

I dunno if you're popular or not, bodldops, but I always had the impression that you were. The neat oldbies quote you....

--NenyaQuende

[artemis85.livejournal.com]

You're definitely considered to be an older person around the board, by those of us who have been around a while. The newbies may not know who you are, but that's just because they haven't stayed long neough yet to see your occasional posts.

You're very smart, and you only post when you have something to say. You don't ramble on much at the board...You've been there a little longer than me, remember?

It's likely that people just didn't realize how things were going at the moment. Not a hard thing to do, really.

See, I don't think it had anything to do with you being unimportant as much as a wee bit too early. So much so that people probably thought that you were just being paranoid.

Anyway, you know how much of a PPC fan I still am. As long as you're still with me, we'll muddle through things together somehow. Hopefully the board won't go nuts permanently, cause I'd really hate to lose all the people at the PPC that I really really like. >_>

I hope things went well for your vet...It always seems like the best people get the hardest time...

[hoppytoad79.livejournal.com]

I hope she wins. If she can handle the rescue work, then she should do it, 'cause God knows there aren't enough people to help out critters.