Oh, dear . . .
I think that I mentioned, somewhere, that the library wanted to hold a "Gadget Day" to demo the BBC Microbit. So I have been frantically swotting up in it, wiring, coding etc. Built one of the games, found how to make it drive a speaker with a single transistor, got it working a model servo motor via an external battery (and another transistor) . . .
Then I get an email showing the poster, nothing about the Micro:bit, "Come and get you phone/tablet/laptop using problems fixed".
Reply states that we are simply experienced and relatively confident users, not experts with immediate answers (or I would be earning money on it!) It can take half an hour (out of the 1,.5 hours of the session) to get one person confident, that is, maybe, including us working it out ourselves. With several version of Android around and Windows not working exactly the same on all branded laptops there is usually a learning curve for use. If it proves popular (they intend to push it on social media, all libraries in the city and the local press) there are likely to be more people than we can cope with in the time!
Assemble the following into a grammatical English sentances: think, out, one, you, not, did, this. Maybe: plonker, pulling, my, surely, are, you. Or perhaps advantage, taking, your, are, to, you, promote, library, expense, our, at.
Later: got a reply that did not please me, rather patronising. Suggested that, as a volunteer, I had the right to be fully consulted on any change in the ecpectstions of what I do and the right to modify new tasks where appropriate and possible. I will see what the other "Buddy" thinks - it was said that the Micro:bit day has been postponed (without telling me) so the other guy can catch up on it.
I know that they have to justify their jobs in these days of cut-backs and a successful "Gadget Day" will help keep the branch open. But politics, a lack of communications and taking advantage of my services was the reason I dropped out back in 2005.