splinteredstar | (no subject) (Reply)

…..So, the new president of my club /might/ be an asshole.

Okay. Situation. I offered to make trophies for the robotics competition, right? Y'all have seen photos of the one that I’ve done. A few weeks back, before easter break, New Prez suggested maybe we should just buy trophies as that would be cheaper and easier. I’d already made a lot of progress, so I said - hey, I’ll let you know how much progress I make over break, and get back to you then. If we /have/ to go with generic designs, we can, but if not then we’ll go with mine.

So I come back, having completed one trophy and having the pieces ready for the others, and New Prez says that Advisor said to just go ahead and order trophies, since that was what they’d always done. I was literally working on preping pieces at the time, so I just sort of shrugged and said that I’d keep working on them anyway.

Then I went up to talk to Advisor myself. /She/ said it was still up in the air, and something to be discussed - yeah, we can do bought trophies or I can make them, whatever we decide to do.

I harumph a bit, resolve to talk to the guy the next time I see him, and continue working on them. Because my trophy is /fucking awesome/ and I want to give the kids something special. I want to use my talents and abilities to give something unique to the project.

So today I get to the room where I’ve been working on them. New Prez and Club Member are in there, and while I work, they talk about designs for the trophies that he ordered that day.

Ohhhkay then. I blink and go “what the fuck” inside my head, because, /really/. Once Club Member leaves, I settle next to New Prez and eventually say, “….so why’re you going to the effort to buy trophies when I’m making them?”

According to him, everyone decided that was what was going to happen. I ask if I was /at/ that meeting, because no such thing happened, and apparently he meant the one before break. He said that everyone agreed. I told him that Advisor had said it was still up in the air, and he had no idea what that was about. And I told him that I was /totally/ capable of making the other trophies by then, and he said I’d have to rush - which I’m fine with, and told him so, and also that he’d have nothing to do with the process at all. But he’d already ordered the trophies.

I just kind of stared at him for a moment, and then left.

I mean. What the fuck is even /happening/ here? Does he not want my art there and isn’t brave enough to say it to my face? Have I pissed him off somehow? Does he not think I’m capable of doing it? Why does he say something different every time I ask him? Am I crazy or is he just an asshole?

I think I might email my advisor later. .