@mietze said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
The problem with one person having the funds in their name is that it's so very easy for even well intentioned people to slip "I need to get this little 5 dollar thing, but I will pay it back right away." "Well maybe I should ask people first but they'll probably be okay with it!". And before you know it things are more and more serious. That can still happen with incorporated orgs and that is often how embezzlement starts from volunteer orgs and PTAs too, especially with lots of cash handling.
What's funny-sad is she initially resisted because she claimed she didn't want people to give her money for exactly that (she didn't want people to feel like there might be something improper). I had brought a piggy bank to a few meetups. I did that back when I was an ML for NaNoWriMo and at the end of the event, I'd take all the cash from it and make a bulk donation to the OLL (the non-profit org that oversees NaNo). She made a sort of snotty comment at me for it and I shrugged and stopped doing it. The plan was to give the cash to her and/or buy a few prizes to give away to people (instead, I bought some and I give things away at meetups -I- organize).
But then she went and made an account anyway and.....the very first thing she did was what she insisted she wasn't gonna do. And what she kept advertising she wanted money for was prizes / location reservations. But she got business cards. And told everyone she got them.
It's.....yeah.
I'm kind of debating getting a petition together to send around to 'recommend' that the person she has as her second be given control of the group instead. And lean into the suggestion as 'Hey, you keep making very negative comments lately that you aren't enjoying this, that you don't like doing this, that you want other people to do all the work so you can just sit back. So maybe A should run it instead.'