Service With A Smile

In the last cou­ple of weeks, I’ve been replac­ing a lot of peo­ple for ser­vice projects. I stopped sign­ing myself up for ser­vice when the pledges ini­ti­ated so that they could all have a chance to do their hours, but when it gets to be around finals week and break, peo­ple sud­denly real­ize they are double-​booked, and then I jump in. When I’m not also pre­vi­ously engaged, anyway.

Here’s me replac­ing LB Glo­ria at KVIE:

Then I replaced Merry at Santa For Kids:

Then I replaced Christina Ly at ACC Senior Hol­i­day Potluck:

Man, those were really fun projects! And we got stuff from two of them. The teacher of the Head­Start class we went to for Santa For Kids made cook­ies for all of us, and when we did the ACC Senior Hol­i­day Potluck, the coör­di­na­tor gave us Life­savers Orn-​O-​Mints for com­ing! While very cool, that does put me onto a bit of a rant. As a for­mer SVP, and just a con­cerned brother in gen­eral, it really both­ers me when I see broth­ers tak­ing things from ser­vice projects. It’s fine when it’s some­thing that was made for the pur­pose of giv­ing to vol­un­teers, but I don’t like tak­ing things, even if they are “extra,” and even if the coör­di­na­tor offers it to us. I think it speaks ill of us, and it may give peo­ple the wrong impres­sion that we do ser­vice in order to get free­bies, not to help oth­ers. I should have done more about it when I was SVP, but I didn’t. Maybe the cur­rent or the next SVPs will fix that for me.

Tags: Christina Ly, Dinhternet, Julie C, Will F, Work