🧶 Our Bare Minimum Board

There’s something uniquely exhausting about bare minimum people.

I don’t know about you – but I hate them.
Not because they exist… but because everyone around them ends up carrying them.

They show up just enough.
They do just enough.
And somehow, they expect the same outcome as the people doing the actual work.

🏢 Volunteer… or Just Occupying a Chair?

Now take that mindset – and put it on a condo board.

If you’ve been sitting there for years – decades even – why are you still operating at the level of “meh”?

This isn’t a hobby.
This isn’t a social club.

You are:

Managing significant amounts of other people’s money
Making decisions that impact safety and property value
Handling residents’ personal and banking information

And yet… no urgency, no communication, no ownership.

That’s not volunteering.
That’s occupying a chair.

🔐 When “Bare Minimum” Becomes Everyone Else’s Problem

Here’s the real issue with bare minimum people:

They don’t feel the pressure.
They don’t lose sleep.
They’re perfectly fine doing less.

So what happens?

👉 Someone else picks up the slack.
👉 Someone else worries.
👉 Someone else fixes the mess.

And when that “someone else” is dealing with things like financial oversight or a data breach, this isn’t just annoying anymore – it’s dangerous.

Seven months to notify people about compromised banking information?
Residents left confused, uninformed, and exposed?

That’s what “bare minimum” looks like in real life.

🧵 Maybe Try Crochet Instead

Honestly – if the best you can offer is the bare minimum:

Go crochet.

Seriously.

Because crochet doesn’t:

expose people to identity theft
mishandle reserve funds
create risk for an entire building

This does.

⚖️ Final Thought

No one forced anyone to be on that board.

So if you choose to be there,
do the F*** ING job properly – or step aside.

Because “bare minimum” isn’t harmless.
It doesn’t just sit there quietly.

It shifts the burden onto everyone else.

And some of us are done carrying it.

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