to feel hurt?

[emkana]

Today was my last ever governors' meeting, after six years as a governor. During that time I have taken on various important roles on the governing body, and the school went into and came out of special measures.

During the meeting today there was a discussion who would take on my roles and when my term would end (so there was awareness), but other than that there was nothing - no goodbye. I feel kind of sad, but am I expecting too much?

After working in a place where birthday cards and flowers were routinely given on birthdays and witnessing panic when someone's birthday had been overlooked, I'm the one who turned up with the cakes on my own birthday to celebrate with others and avoid any embarrassment.

Yes, your fellow governors were very unreasonable, but sometimes you have to anticipate that things like this can be overlooked and even if they'd provided cake themselves, you can never have too much.

Well done on being a governor for so long . . . and even more well done on managing to escape.

We've had members leave too who don't receive any recognition.

In fact our chair left before this newly reconstituted group & all she got was a verbal thanks.

I'm sure your work was appreciated but I know at our school there wouldn't be gifts/flowers, though not all are the same.

Just take comfort from a job well done

Bastards! YANBU.

I would have been content with just a verbal thanks...

From my experience, everyone but the Chair was probably wiggling in their seats waiting for the Chair to propose formal thanks, and the Chair was so taken up by discussions of the handover that they forgot to propose them.

I've more than once been in the situation where you're thinking 'hang on, what about the thanks?', but don't feel that an ordinary member can propose them without it looking obvious that the Chair hasn't. I'm now old and bolshy enough that I have actually said, 'and I would like to take the opportunity to thank...' Etc etc, but I know not everyone is...