(/Begin Sarcasim)Sorry for thinking that admins and executives should be held accountable for missing meetings where important decisions are made…my bad.
I didn’t name call, I wasn’t calling for resignations, I wasn’t even complaining. I was explaining a truth. But as usual, you guys are attacking me. Let me put my thoughts in a different way so that maybe just maybe ONE person will actually read what I wrote and STOP jumping to conclusions and get defensive for NO reason unless they have a guilty conscience. (/End of Sarcasim)
Executives and Council Leaders should be at EVERY meeting, because the club does not hold that many meetings, and when they do, it is for an important reason. So we can stop this thinking that nothing important happens at meetings, because sorry to contradict you guys but Kuros has BETTER things to do that sit in a room with a bunch of people that doesn’t want to be there. Remimber his Wife is Pregnant and he does have a life as well.
Every meeting is about a LAN. Every meeting is about a game we host. Every meeting is about getting our name out there. Every meeting is about getting more and better sponsors. Every meeting is about keeping this club alive. And when our executives stop coming to meetings, it sets an example to the other members that if the executives don’t care why should they.
Yes why should they? You guys are about to lose a President and do you even have anyone in mind to replace Kuros? Do you have any idea who will be as dedicated to this club as Kuros, Adambomb and NoDice have been? It takes dedication. It takes time. Yes you have a life, yes you are there to learn, yes you have family obligations. But if they take so much time from you that you can not dedicate sufficient time to the club, please do as two of our past Presidents have done, STEP DOWN.
I am not calling for anyone to step down, I have no problems with the executives that currently hold positions. When I said that this has always been my position, I mean it, I called for the resignation of one of our founders from VP of Admin position, because he did not attend meetings, He did not have time for the club. He recognized it as well, but refused to give up his position, so instead others had to pick up the slack because he didn’t do his job. I called for the resignation of one of our past Treasurers because he never attended meetings and didn’t do his job as well. I became the unofficial treasurer because he failed to do his job. This is what I mean, when you can’t make time for meetings because you forgot or whatever the excuse is of the day then you might also start to neglect your duties and someone else has to pickup your slack. I saw this happening at the last LAN. I won’t point any names, and I don’t mean the M.A. either, but there were some executives that weren’t fullfilling their duties and believe me IT WAS NOTICED.
In the end, if you have something positive to contribute to the club, they want you to attend the meetings. If you hold an elected position you should be there out of obligation and duty and most importantly because you want to be there. If you were appointed, you should be there because someone in this club thought enough of you to give you admin because you are obviously an active member in the forums and on the servers. It is understood if you do not live on campus and are not a student at WCU that you might not attend. That is a given. But if you attend WCU, sorry but all I’ve heard thus far are excuses, not reasons.
Oh, and yes the forums are used as a form of communication. But as anyone who has actually attended a meeting can attest to, we do not cover the same material on the forums as we do in the meetings. The people who attend the meetings are typically more dedicated and vote on club executives, LAN event dates, Games that will be played, server games, what games we support and host, where the LAN’s will be hosted, and other VERY IMPORTANT information. As one that has been with this club since its conception it bothers me, when I read executives or members say that attending meetings aren’t that important and that nothing important was covered. If nothing important happened, then we wouldn’t hold a meeting.
Thanks Nickname, you actually read my post!