Organising for Communal Duty
 

Places that contain a communal area like a kitchen, rest room etc; but
are within a community structure, like for instance a club or our
allotment do need a bit of organisation for 'cleaning duties'. Since
there is little of a management hierarchy to *order* people to do a
weeks cleaning and maintenance.

How might things be organised to perhaps *shame* some dodgers into doing
a turn sometimes. But to try to do so without causing any
unpleasantness amongst those in the community ?

Organising for Communal Duty
 

On 08/04/2018 20:36, john west wrote:

Places that contain a communal area like a kitchen, rest room etc; but
are within a community structure, like for instance a club or our
allotment do need a bit of organisation for 'cleaning duties'. Since
there is little of a management hierarchy to *order* people to do a
weeks cleaning and maintenance.

How might things be organised to perhaps *shame* some dodgers into doing
a turn sometimes.Â* But to try to do so without causing any
unpleasantness amongst those in the community ?

Increase subs the following year for shirkers?

The real question is do you want these people in the 'club'?

Organising for Communal Duty
 

In message , john west
writes

Places that contain a communal area like a kitchen, rest room etc; but
are within a community structure, like for instance a club or our
allotment do need a bit of organisation for 'cleaning duties'. Since
there is little of a management hierarchy to *order* people to do a
weeks cleaning and maintenance.

How might things be organised to perhaps *shame* some dodgers into
doing a turn sometimes. But to try to do so without causing any
unpleasantness amongst those in the community ?

Hah! It takes all sorts to make up the human race.

One system that seems to work is a discounted membership fee where a
reduction is exchanged for managed duties.
If they don't work they pay the full fee.

Published rota? At least other members would learn who the shirkers are.

--
Tim Lamb

Organising for Communal Duty
 

Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , john west
writes

Places that contain a communal area like a kitchen, rest room etc; but
are within a community structure, like for instance a club or our
allotment do need a bit of organisation for 'cleaning duties'. Since
there is little of a management hierarchy to *order* people to do a
weeks cleaning and maintenance.

How might things be organised to perhaps *shame* some dodgers into
doing a turn sometimes.Â* But to try to do so without causing any
unpleasantness amongst those in the community ?

Hah! It takes all sorts to make up the human race.

One system that seems to work is a discounted membership fee where a
reduction is exchanged for managed duties.
If they don't work they pay the full fee.

Published rota? At least other members would learn who the shirkers are.

Compulsion does not always work with irascible oldies better by far for
someone to say, hey, come and give us a hand

Organising for Communal Duty
 

On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 20:53:03 +0100, Tim Lamb wrote:

One system that seems to work is a discounted membership fee where a
reduction is exchanged for managed duties.
If they don't work they pay the full fee.

This. The local archery club has a similar system that works with little
friction: The membership fees is discounted, and the paid excess refunded at the
end of the year, if the member does his x hours work.

This also addresses the problem of those physically unable to work, only able to
work at times when there is no work to be done etc.


Thomas Prufer

Organising for Communal Duty
 

On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 20:36:44 +0100, john west wrote:

Since there is little of a management hierarchy to *order* people to do
a weeks cleaning and maintenance.

Without some form of agreed procedures it ain't going to happen. You
need to avoid making it a chor as well, having to do a whole week
and/or a lot of things turns it into a chore and it won't happen. Try
to split tasks so doing the crockery/cutlry has two people (so thay
can chat, makes the time go quicker), one with hands in sink, one
with T towel drying and putting away. Someone else collects the
crockery/cutlry, someone else generally tidies, etc.

How might things be organised to perhaps *shame* some dodgers into doing
a turn sometimes.

If you have one of the "irascable oldies" who tells it like it is
*and* does their turn, so it can't be turned back on them. They could
say in a loud voice, when one of the known shirkers is due to do
something "John, looks like your turn to do the ... today", so
everyone knows who should be doing that task...

But without general agreement on tasks and frequency (which depends
on how many people are involved and how often the meetings occur)
nothing will change. There also needs to be a "public record" of who
did what. So "John" can't shirk by simply not turning up or "have
another comitment" when it's his turn to do something.

--
Cheers
Dave.

Organising for Communal Duty
 

In article ,
john west wrote:

Places that contain a communal area like a kitchen, rest room etc; but
are within a community structure, like for instance a club or our
allotment do need a bit of organisation for 'cleaning duties'. Since
there is little of a management hierarchy to *order* people to do a
weeks cleaning and maintenance.

How might things be organised to perhaps *shame* some dodgers into doing
a turn sometimes. But to try to do so without causing any
unpleasantness amongst those in the community ?

An agreed roster of whose turn it is, kept in a prominent place? So it is
obvious to all if someone is shirking?

--
*My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.

Dave Plowman London SW
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