📝 WIBTA if I don’t help with volunteer event planning?

By VegetasLoinCloth • Score: 4 • April 4, 2025 1:14 PM


My direct report years ago used to have me do all the volunteer event planning (helping out at the local food bank, sponsoring a family during holidays, food drives, local plant cleanup, etc).

Well that manager has been gone and the my direct report is the CEO and she once asked me for ideas but she never took up on them, and I was never asked about it again.

One year later, she puts out a communication asking for some volunteers to step up and basically be an official team to plan and coordinate these events. She said there will be budget and admin support.

One girl who stepped up, keeps coming to me about planning. I did not volunteer. As far as I’m concerned, this has nothing to do with me anymore.

A manager forwarded me some Make A Wish email since I used to be the face for this. I forwarded to the other girl saying it’s now her who is leading us with events. She responded saying “I think we can work in tandem with me doing a good lift.”

I want to tell her no because it’s not my responsibility any longer. I do take care most of the admin work in the office but I wasn’t asked or told to be the “admin support” on this. It sounds like people have these ideas for events and want me do what I did before with coordinating everything and they take credit for it.

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