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Irritating Colleague

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smithsinarazz · 16/11/2018 12:26

A few years ago I worked with an arrogant tit. I now find myself in a situation where I am the Chair of a voluntary organisation (let's call it Friends Of the Nature Reserve) of which he is a member, and he is behaving like an arrogant tit. He makes unilateral decisions, like booking rooms for meetings without asking anyone else, and makes unfounded pronouncements - like saying that community groups can't get bank accounts. I've had to establish formal procedures (writing a constitution, appointing a secretary and treasurer, etc) so that there's something in writing to say he can't go off on his own bat and spend money or make decisions without agreement.
We're in a stand-off at present because he wants everyone to put their details on a google form. I won't consent to have my contact details stored in that way and don't want to have to require it from everyone else. Besides, if he's got access to everyone's contact details, there's no saying what he might do. He is getting huffy. WWYD?

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Twisique · 16/11/2018 12:35

Does he have a formal role? Do you have any support? I would enlist the club secretary in helping and tell him collating data is the club secretary's job. Is he G D P R trained? What are the fines for losing data?

smithsinarazz · 16/11/2018 13:54

Thanks Twisique. I don't know whether my colleague is GDPR trained, but he seems to have a bit of a cavalier attitude to data and to decision-making.
It's not just about fines, though. We're a campaigning organisation and therefore if we do anything that makes us look bad, then it makes the campaign look bad. Obviously "Friends Of have had their contacts list hacked, so therefore it's ok to build on the nature reserve" isn't a good line of reasoning, but you know how things play out in politics. Also, people have given us their details on trust, and I won't break it.
Yeah, I think i'll tell him the Secretary's keeping the mailing list, and leave it at that. I'm rather hoping he irritates someone else soon and gets a gobful off them, because then he might flounce off in a huff, but I can't bank on that happening.

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Twisique · 16/11/2018 16:35

I think the GDPR fine is in the thousands. Might be useful to know. He sounds awful, you have my sympathies!

smithsinarazz · 16/11/2018 22:57

Thanks again! He's not a bad guy - he means well - but he thinks he knows better than everyone else, and he really doesn't. You know. Some people go through their whole lives safe in the belief in their own superiority, because they never bother to find out whether anyone else is any good.

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