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So I open up my email today and in it is a letter from the leader of my support group for military families. This letter has the heading of "VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION! ALARMING!" or something like that. Needless to say, I was scared shitless! I was sure something had happened to Mr. LAW.

Turns out it was something about posting personal information on the message board they were starting.

Now I'm just pissed. What the hell was she thinking!! She is our only point of contact with the boys overseas and we take her information very seriously. She should have known better than to do that.

Am I overreacting?

LAW

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I'd bitch slap her into tomorrow

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Not to be dark, but I'd think that if something personally tragic happened (God forbid), you would not get an email.

But logic goes out the window when you see something like that. Go ahead and slap her!

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smack her a good one!!! I'd be pissed too! Hell, I'd be pissed if someone wrote that to me anyway!

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And if you don't slap her at least tell her how that e-mail upset you, So that it won't happen again.

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You may want to BOLDLY QUOTE THAT HEADING with a very blunt paragraph on your feelings, in a reply e-mail, and DO have lots of entries in the Cc: box. :devilish:

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Good idea PF!

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Gawd Hun!

You've got to tell her that an alarm is an alarm is an alarm! We are ALL sitting over here on pins and needles and we need you sensitivity more than anyone elses. When she wants your undivided attention...just say..."I need your attention because this is exciting news and happy news"!

Oh LAW...smack the livin daylights outta her!

(((((((lonelyarmywife)))))))

Good Gawd...don'tcha just hate people sometime?!!!

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No and thats just the beginning. i got them too. half their info isn't right anyways.

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So I talked it over with one of my support group friends and together we sent her a very strongly worded email, but just to her. I figure it's not everyone else's fault and there's no need to drag them into it. I'll let you know her respone.

Good! I'm glad you told her. She needs to think about her use of words and how they're going to effect people.

Glad you replied to her, LAW. Obviously her e-mail was in very bad taste. I'm sure she didn't realize how she'd affect others at the time she sent you that (we humans are capable of being terribly ridiculous), but she needs to be aware of the impact of her words.

Yep. Bitch slap her.

Then tell her to get her head out of her ass and run things the way they should be. A family support group is there to SUPPORT THE FAMILIES. Support means being sensitive to their emotions, helping them when they need a hand, and being there for each other for a little morale.

Oh, and one more thing... tell them to make sure there is no place for rumors there. Our FSG was horrible about that and it just made the deployment 10X harder. So-and-so's great aunt's cousins brother's friend doesn't have a clue WTF is going on anyway.

i can'i imagaine what that would feel like.

but think you did the right thing by not making a huge deal out of it. she probably did it without thinking it through. good for you for settiin' her straight though.

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