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Please help - potluck work issue

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CL32:
If you're being asked to help plan and you have strong ideas about it, maybe you should just plan it the way you want to? Call and get prices for catering, etc. and present them to your boss and make a case for the low cost and convenience of a catered event v. a messy, chaotic pot luck.

Your boss obviously doesn't care about the etiquette angle, so she may be more convinced by the numbers.

Hmmmmm:
OP, I see a lot of people are referring to this event as a volunteer appreciation event.  I interpreted your OP as a anniversary celebration where volunteers are invited to join in on the celebration. 

Can you clarify which it is?

rigs32:
I usher as a volunteer at our local theater that gets the touring Broadway shows - ~2200 seats.  They have a picnic every year for which the theater provided hot dogs and hamburgers, but in the email invitation it requests that all attendees bring "a large dish to pass".

A large dish?  If we all bring a large dish there is going to be a ton of leftovers!  Is that because they know some will show up empty handed?  I don't mind the concept of bring a side, but the request to bring a *large* dish didn't sit well with me and I didn't attend - even though the theater is a block away from me.

audrey1962:
My theatre group celebrates its anniversary by holding a "X-year birthday potluck." It's completely optional and the word potluck is right in the name. It also doesn't pretend to be celebrating the work of our volunteers.

bah12:

--- Quote from: Hmmmmm on June 24, 2012, 06:16:53 PM ---OP, I see a lot of people are referring to this event as a volunteer appreciation event.  I interpreted your OP as a anniversary celebration where volunteers are invited to join in on the celebration. 

Can you clarify which it is?

--- End quote ---

Yes please...because it does matter.  Inviting previous volunteers to a potluck to celebrate the anniversary of the organization is not tacky.  Inviting them to a celebration to honor them, while requiring them to bring food, is.

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