RIVERSIDE CAN BAKE OFF!!!

Sarah Paton and the taster days…

A LETTER TO Ms  PATON

NORTH REGIONAL DIRECTOR

RIVERSIDE HOUSING ASSOCIATION

Dear Ms Paton

Thank for your offer. It sounds really interesting.

You say you have vacancies in your national resident involvement committees… and you want me to apply.

As I said Ms Paton, this sounds really interesting.

You say the vacancies are for the Federation Executive Committee, the National Scrutiny Committee  (now called the Federation Scrutiny Panel), the Tenant Inspector Steering Group and the Tenant Compliant Panel.

My goodness Ms Paton, what a mouthful. Certainly quite a menu to take in for me, just an ordinary tenant of Riverside.  It`s all coming a bit too much for me .

No bother, you say. You  offer help with that problem.You call the help “taster days”.(It sounds like Bake Off!)

You say you have organised six of these taster days  where I can find out more of what you call “these opportunities”. You say that the opportunities are that  I can  learn new skills, get training and you will pay my fare to get to one of them…York. Liverpool, Leicester, London, Irvine and Carlisle.

(Possibly Ms Paton , you will throw in an overnight stay at an hotel as well . You did this a year or so ago when you invited me to a similar Riverside event.

It was  in Chester and there was lots and lots of free gift goodies.What a lavish jamboree it was!!)

However, as I said earlier, your offer is very interesting. But I am sorry, I have to decline.

You may wonder why I wish to decline , Ms Paton. Particularly when there is a  chance to better myself with new skills and training.

And  I am sure there will also be the chance of more lavish Chester jamborees to come with lots of goodies.

It is all very tempting, Ms Paton.

But I have to say this: Looking back on the lavish Chester jamboree ,I have come to the conclusion that it was  all a a waste of  your money- that is  the money you collect in rent from your 50,000 tenants (including me).And I don`t like that.

Getting ready for nodding

And there is the problem of the nodding donkeys which you may have heard of.

Nodding donkeys is the name they give to Riverside`s yes-men, the tenants who agree with everything Riverside says.

Your committees are full of nodding donkeys.

I don`t want to be a nodding donkey.

Yours sincerely

A.Tenant 


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