Uneasy Rhetoric

I’ve added the Nonprofit Curmudgeon to the blogroll on the strength of a couple of posts. First, the Curmudgeon asks ” Are nonprofit agencies the customers from hell?” The answer is a resounding “yes!” The stringing along nonprofits do of vendors is just sad.

My favorite situation: nonprofit N asks vendor V to do a product within three months. V checks in at the two-month point and waits for the go-ahead to bring the task to completion. And waits. And waits. Finally, N, after three months, gives the go. In the meantime, V has scheduled new work and instead of taking one month it takes three months to complete the project. N is angry at the delay. Now, whose fault is it?

Second, the Curmudgeon offers some slogans for nonprofit professionals. My favorite:

Much will be gained if [our work] can succeed in transforming hysterical misery into common unhappiness. (Sigmund Freud)