The local writing association: made up of mostly (wealthy AF) retirees who both ask me to do something for them "because I'm young" and fight me every step of the way. They complain during board meetings that they have no young members outside me and when I introduce them to something "young people" use, like Zoom for remote meetings, they complain.
The latest source of frustration is over Discord. They wanted a place for people to talk and share files, I suggested Discord. They tell me to make a server. Sent the invite. No one joins. I get email after email saying it's broken and the link doesn't work. I still have no clue what they're doing when they click the invite link because it works on my end, of course. Then, to make it worse, the one who does get in the server proceeds to complain "it looks like it's made by seventh graders. It's ugly. I hate it" and "you need to type up a guide with pictures showing exactly how do everything in Discord" in the same conversation. If it's for kids, shouldn't you be able to know how to use it? I told him I would do a live webinar over Zoom but I'm not typing up guides. Which apparently closed the casket on Discord. (That, and I flat out said if they're not using Discord I'm not doing tech support on the alternative). They have nothing outside email chains and half don't know to use "reply all" to this day, which makes conversations impossible to follow.
The same person said he had a list of websites for us to read and printed out full URLs. He was offended when I asked why he didn't email the list. Come to find out after, he's the "tech guru" of all of them and if he doesn't like something, the group won't adopt it.
I only joined because their most successful and connected trad pubbed author asked me personally but she moved last year. I didn't opt to renew my membership because of it, but she sent an email again asking me not to leave so I stayed another year. Not making that mistake again. That assocation can die.
