Service Logistics

2017-2018’s 2 seasons of service can be described in one word. Hectic. The starting of any major endeavour will always begin with a rocky start. To say Service Logistics was any different would be a gigantic lie. In fact, rocky start may not even be an adequate description.

Problems

We knew this service was going to be an interesting experience when we all met for the first time. Everyone was a guy who forgot or wasn’t able to sign up for service, and we all chose Service Logistics as it was one of the remaining options.

The election of key service positions foreshadowed the problems that would continue to plague the service. Only one person nominated themself for chair. I was nominated simply to discard Vedant’s opportunity to be chair by walk-over. However, I was voted chair despite my clear protest to taking part in this election.

The problems do not stop here.

Attendance was abysmal, to say the least. There were some service sessions where only 2 people would attend. Sometimes four. The problem was that it was the same people that frequently did not show up. This made service extremely hard for us to organise. Our productivity dropped sharply as we were a clock that was missing multiple gears.

Essential agreements are, essential, for a group to function effectively. Our service never got around to drafting some essential agreements. Although we did create some goals for our service, most of them were left unstarted due to our low attendance rate.

Although there were further problems, these were just the main ones.

Success

The people who did show up often showed dedication to completing the task at hand. Furthermore, our checking in and checking out system was efficient, if hard to understand for everyone else in the school.

I believe that John, Darsh, Joseph and I were instrumental in ensuring the service wasn’t a complete failure.