Re: Where'd Valerie go?

Very well said, Sandi! That's the bottom line for a number of us, I'm
sure. If someone belonged to AAMT and in the time of their membership
the AAMT adopted tenets the member didn't like, I can see advising the
member actively campaign to make changes. However, when an
organization is born that in nearly every way fails to meet many
potential members' needs, then MTs who do not join are in no way
"lacking" because they chose not to become involved--even if the
organization is the only one in their field.

Anne/OH
>>
>What I fail to understand is, just because someone somewhere started an
>organization and claimed it represented my profession, why is it my
>obligation to have anything to do with it? The American Bar Association
>already exists, but if I go out as soon as I pass the bar and start an
>organization and call it the American Association of Lawyers and Legal
>Professionals, that will not mean people should join, and it will not give
>me or my organization any credibility. Only if I started an organization
>that meets the needs of its members and relates to the profession in a
>meaningful way would people join it, and then those who didn't, but were
>still lawyers, would certainly have the right to criticize it.
>
>One day somebody got the idea to start AAMT, and it was "born." The fact
>that those people were MTs doesn't necessarily know that they have any idea
>how I, or even MOST MTs, live or need to be approached. The organization
>exists now, and it has its own culture. I don't happen to like that
>culture, or the attittude that seems to surround it. Signing up, paying
>dues, and even attending meetings that are already inculcated with that
>culture would just be silly. Volunteering with people I would normally not
>enjoy spending time with doesn't seem the best use of my time. I did attend
>our state meeting once, and did not enjoy the meeting, the presentations, or
>the officers. So to me, joining these folks would be like going to a church
>whose tenets I don't believe, or signing up for a sport I don't play. They
>may be medical transcriptionists, but other than that, we just don't have
>anything in common!
>
>Sandi
>

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