Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Mandatory meals participation

[Anne Fleck (solianna]

Oh, sorry, our expectation is "If you eat you work" but we make 
exceptions to that for specific requests (illness, personal crisis, 
etc.)
Anne Fleck

On Friday, December 1, 2006, at 07:09 PM, R.P. Aditya wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 03:42:55AM +0000, R.P. Aditya wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 01:24:32PM -0500, Tree Bressen wrote:
> > > I think yours might be the first cohousing community i've heard of 
> > > that has
> > > 4-5 meals per week without requiring everyone to contribute.  Can 
> > > you say
> > > more about what you think led to that success?
> ...
> > - and the longer you labor in the meal program, the better you get at 
> > it!
>
> I can confirm that it is no idle speculation in our community that 
> meal work
> has become more popular over time as we just completed our 
> thrice-yearly work
> survey (which asks members to express a preference for the various jobs
> available to do in our community) and the most desired jobs in order of
> "weighted" preference (average preference - on a scale from -2 to +2 - 
> times
> the number of people expressing a positive preference for the job) are:
>
> 42 - meal cleaner once a month
> 27 - weekday meal assistant cook
> 26 - light duty snow shoveller
> 24 - sunday meal assistant cook
> 23 - meal cleaner two times a month
> 23 - Common House sitting and guest room cleaner
> 18 - Common House laundry room cleaner
> 17 - meals billing person
> 16 - weekday meal head cook
> ...
> 11 - sunday meal head cook
> ...
>
> the only meals jobs that rank in the top twenty of least desired jobs 
> are
> weekday head cook three times a month and sunday head cook three times 
> a
> month.
>
> For this upcoming work season, which will be from January through the 
> end of
> April, 2007, there are 88 different jobs to choose from representing a 
> total
> of 468 hours per month. We have 60 adult members who participate in 
> the work.
>
> Please let me know if you want more detail...
>
> Thanks,
> Adi
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