I'm at the end of my PTA parent days but agreed to help out with an upcoming raffle evening for my DD school. It's all set up on a system which is cheap but a bit cumbersome and fiddly. They've done it for years and I've helped with this in the past so said I could do this for a final time. I also offered to train up anybody/ all people interested as the system is used a lot by the PTA but not many individuals have the 'training'. Makes it sound like a piece of high tec precision engineering equipment. It isn't. Its just fiddly and most parents can't be bothered to do a deep dive into the back end of it all.
Anyway. I've done this raffle set up for a few years and I know what and how to do as efficiently as possible. Unfortunately I am being 'managed' by a new parent who is questioning my every move and demanding levels of reporting that are just not necessary. Think busy work transferring, cross checking and re checking data across multiple separate spreadsheets. Data which is recorded and up to date on the PTA computer system already. I have refused and so they are doing this and incidentally mucking up some stuff on the system which results in more messages from them to me.
I can't block their messages because I need to let them know (periodically) where everything is at. But it is driving me INSANE. I fear that when I meet them face to face at the event I might do or say something that I regret. Is intense aggravation by an overly keen but slightly dim fellow volunteer an admissible offence in a court of law?