Pretty sad excuse for an online newspaper

First the good part - an excellent support editorial on the new capital campaign for another Boys and Girls Club - Read more: http://www.theolympian.com/2011/03/21/1587049/boys-girls-clubs-serve-our-communitys.html#ixzz1HIIbjUD1

Now the sad part.  Due to shitty moderation by The Olympian staff, two of the three comments were intended to insult members of the community who have given much.  Read along:

radec I agree, good organization. Especially since they have eliminated some employees who spent more time commenting on websites than working!

rlb

I am glad the Boys and Girls club is here in Thurston County.

We need some positive places for kids to go and have fun!!

MyOpinion98502

Take THAT Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Washington! Maybe if your organization had a decent CEO and management, as well as a board, who cared about the staff & program, BBBSSWWA could only HOPE to be half as successful.

Kudos to The Boys & Girls Club & to the way it's run & to those who run it & support it! Well done! I hope your Garfield site is successful & hopefully there will be many more future sites after that as well!

"Radec", also known as SondraK and many other names was attempting to insult me.  Only one problem.  I didn't work for the Boys and Girls Club. 

For those that don't know, I was the Director of Agency Development for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Washington until I left the agency in October of 2009.  Due to government FUNDING CUTS, the Mentoring Children in Foster Care Program, was due to be terminated, as the dedicated funding was no longer available from a partnership with DSHS.  It was part of the first round of Governor's cuts for the 2009 Budget.

I had been pursuing other interests so...... as good managers do, I offered up my job to save the program (two 3/4 time caseworkers).  I was the number two person at the agency and aside from the CEO was the highest paid.  The CEO, Board of Directors and I all agreed to a plan where I would be the reduction in staff that made the program stay alive.  The agency - CEO and Board - offered a generous severance package that, quite frankly, I didn't expect.  Today, I happily spoke to a member of the Board of Directors - a close friend.  I'm in constant contact with the CEO, another friend.  The agency continues to provide mentors for children who need them.  Said services are provided free of charge to the Boys and Girls Clubs via a "site based" mentoring program that has been in service for probably 10 years.  BBBS and the Boys and Girls Clubs are not in competition, they are partners in serving children.

Radec is a sick person and is, as you can see, oblivious to reality.  It was well documented that I worked for BBBS and not Boys and Girls Clubs, but when you are as sick as Radec, all sense of reality is lost.  Radec/Sondra/Whoever has been obsessed with my employment, not comprehending that some people work flexible hours because they are not held to a time clock.  My position required many evening and weekend hours, thus, Radec couldn't keep track of me.  She still can't.

Did The Olympian have the professionalism to moderate and delete that comment?  SADLY, NO.

The comment by "My Opinion" is that of a disgruntled employee that was terminated for behavior issues about 6 months after I left the agency. Sadly, I was responsible for hiring this person, who had the skills to do the job, but didn't have the discipline to do the job.  This person would not follow directions provided by management, and after several warnings, was fired with cause.  To demonstrate how small and mindless this individual is, upon being fired, the terminated employee removed the hard drive from an agency computer, that "they" had donate a year before.  Petty, no?

Again, crappy moderation allows a person to attack an agency that has provided services for 1,000s of children for over 25 years in Thurston County.  "My Opinion" isn't qualified to judge a dog fight, much less the skills of a CEO of a successful charity and the Board volunteers who support him for no pay and not much glory either.

ThurstonBlog got its humble beginnings because of a lack of professionalism by The Olympian.  This is just one more case where ThurstonBlog has to deliver the truth, because The Olympian can't.

Thanks to rlb for a reasonable comment.  Good luck to both agencies as they continue their partnership in serving children who need care.

Hopefully, Radec and MyOpinion can get professional therapeutic help for their obvious mental instabilities.