21 years doing voluntary service for a footy club? - should have received life membership.

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This

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I'm shocked to be sitting here

Freddy. Good luck in the future.
Unfortunately it seems that many people in higher office behave like arseholes. My work is proof of that.

Dont let those bastards get you down. Support our wife.
If the club was fair dinkum they should have all players and coach and Sticks visit you with some present to show their appreciation on what you done and show the club has displayed appalling behaviour.

This sort of behaviour really shits me personally.
Seems a few posters have similar views on the club.

If sticks is a true leader he should get on the front foot and send a vebal message that everyone should be equally treated with respect whether its Freddy or Chris Judd. Those type of organisations are the most successful

Freddy, sorry to hear of your wife's troubles and pray that everything will turn out fine for you both. The club, on the other hand, keeps finding ways to shoot itself in the foot- I'm not sure it really believe that its future success is built not only on the officials and the players, but the supporters and volunteers as well........

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Be positive to all those @ TC- the wait is almost over!

Best of luck Freddy family. This is a place I wish no-one to be in life. Good Luck guys all the best.

All the best to you and your wife

Freddy my thoughts are with you and your wife, all the best for Friday and beyond.

Club have really let themselves on this one. Poor.

Yet invariably we all do visit the big C in one way or another.

All the best Freddy as I sit behind this keyboard and even though I don't know you, I can't but be touched by your post.
Thoughts of you and your family are of an obvious nature with wishes of a speedy and successful process attached.

Good for you Bluegirl to have sent the communication to the CFC and even though I share others disappointment for the tardiness of reply expressed to Freddy, lets give the club the benefit of the doubt.
Let's either give then the benefit and if that doesn't work over time, force it upon them. It's not that hard if you know how.

Freddy.........all the best to you and your wife


How many volunteers is to many???

Am i the only one who thinks that???

Surely the more the merrier.

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all the best freddy and especially mrs freddy

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i think the clubs motives here are somewhat correct (apart from the sacking a volunteer bit) but a phonecall before the letter is better.

you wouldnt want to just receive a letter of termination in the mail after so long.

just could have been handled a hell of a lot better and probably explained with more compassion over the phone by the sounds of things.

there should also be a life membership awarded and maybe a presentation of said membership

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

If that's the kind of news I needed to deliver, I'd make sure I did it in person. Bloody hell, you don't sack the most hopeless and self-serving of employees over the phone... let alone someone who'd given you two decades of volunteered service for nothing.

That's just shit. and it seems to suggest that the people doing things down there don't understand they're custodians of a club that had a long and rich history a century before they walked into the place, and will continue to do so long after they're gone.

A little respect for people like Freddy, who may not be pulling in serious dollars as CEO, but who are a part of the ongoing story of the club, wouldn't go astray.

The more I think about it, the more disappointed I am. Run the club as a soulless enterprise, and don't be surprised if people stop being so emotionally attached to the club. And when that happens, watch the money dry up.

This is something Eddie McGuire instinctively understands. And it's a big part of the reason why Collingwood is so emphatically out-performing us off-field.

My thoughts are with you and your wife Freddy. Maybe its time to sit back, relax, be with your wife and enjoy watching a team play that you have given so much service to.

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L.M 35-06

Agree with this. The timing was also unfortunate, but not necessarily something the club should be blamed for.

Volunteers should be treated with great respect though and it appears that was lacking in this case.

Good luck to you and your wife freddy.

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Phone call is bullsh!t. Should have been done in person with respect, sensitivity and appropriate thanks by the CEO or Pres. If the leaders of the club cannot find 10 minutes in their day to acknowledge the long term contribution of an individual then they deserve the brickbats they are getting. A thankyou from someone that matters shows that the contribution meant something to the club and was appreciated (which I am sure it was).

Is it any wonder volunteerism is dying?

Freddy .... all the best to you and your wife.

Agreed, you'd be given a life membership for that length voluntary service at a country footy club, but then again country clubs are in touch with their supporters.

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Good luck and best wishes to your wife Freddy. She'll beat the prick of a disease.

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As a volunteer for the Glenelg Footy Club / SANFL I sympathise with your treatment.

Unfortunately the AFL is a business now, and is more and more being run as such. Volunteers
will be a thing of the past in the not so distant future. Sad to say, but that's the way it evolves.

I'm lucky the SANFL and Glenelg Footy Club relies on volunteers to keep certain facets of the club
running. I enjoy what I do, and get looked after well by both the club and the SANFL.

Recognition certainly isn't a problem.

By the sounds of it, the Carlton Footy Club could learn a thing or 2 by the "amateurs".

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Sorry to hear all of this Freddy, and I echo the sentiments of many posters in wishing you all the best and thanking you for long service to the club.

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Not surprising. Eddie leads a club that refuses to buckle and concede to the AFL's desire to have every club wear a clash strip. We just keep changing our clash strip and eroding our history after opening Pandora's box. Once you change it, the AFL have you and you can't go back. The club even dumped the old logo with our motto to appeal to Gen Y and look modern. Don't know why the old Hawthorn Stand couldn't have been knocked down to build the new facilities. Our history went with it. The Heatley Stand and Social Club was Carlton. The Bob Rose, Sherrin and Ryder stands at Vic Park have been refurbished for the VFL. Top part of the Rush stand was removed, but it's still there.

In case some of you missed it, the Club are going to send a Certificate Of Appreciation to every volunteer. The phone call could have been handled better for sure. I agree with grro as to what a good reward for service would be.

Reading through the posts though, I don't think I would lose my emotional connection to the club, as that connection lives underneath the personnel that move through the offices.

Good luck, and all strength for the coming months Freddy47.

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I'll never get over the heartlessness of some Companies who show little regard to the people who are the unheralded and often unpaid heroes in good times and bad.....the people in the ''backroom''

This is one of these cases; and I hope that Freddy receives some official recognition from the Club; as well as our heartfelt thanks for a Carlton job so well done.

Good Luck to you Freddy and your Wife from all of us who do care.

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