It’s The Idiots Stress

The Canadian Kennel Club is a self-important, politically infected, management-heavy little non-profit organization with delusions of grandeur, completely reflective of the incestuous nature of the Canadian dog show otherworld.
The organization is currently in political crisis and flirting with financial collapse.
With an annual gross income of around $6 million (CDN), half paid out in “human resources”, last year they lost about a quarter million dollars – the third straight year of loss.
The CEO is reportedly paid in the neighborhood of $600 dollars a day – with non-performance related bonuses. It’s hard to be sure – it’s a self-renewing contract with a “confidentiality clause” that meant for years, board members could not get access to details of that contract, including how much he was being paid.
The last time I wrote something about him, he called the Ontario Provincial Police to charge me with issuing a “threat”. Funny little man.
Anyhow, none of this flood of red ink seems to have any effect on encouraging business efficiency. Today, on an email list, someone noted the following;

“This is not CKC bashing…..just facts. Yesterday I received a large brown envelope from the CKC…it said ‘DO NOT FOLD OR BEND” across the face of it. Postage was .98 cents.
Upon opening, it revealed a letter saying enclosed was a new form. The new form was an “invoice/record of transaction which was informing me of the cost of transferring a dog to the new owner.”

I replied;

I wondered about that – a full sized business envelope, covering letter and full colour invoice. I got one too, just yesterday. I thought it was a freak mistake. Apparently not.
Idiots.
That’s not CKC bashing, mind you. Idiots.
And, it wasn’t actually directed at anyone idiots in particular.
It wasn’t idiots even intentional.
I have idiots the typing variation of tourette’s syndrome��.
It’s a struggle idiots to control the problem, whenever I’m subjected to the stress of dealing with idiots the CKC.
It’s completely involuntary.
Idiots.

Like I said, I wouldn’t want idiots anyone to feel threatened or bashed.
Idiots.