[Penguicon-Concom] Bylaws bullshit - oh, give it up already!

[LadySarah]

Ditto, ditto, Ron.  And you have just pegged the reason I was avoiding the
concom meetings for the past two years.  I was told this year would be
different, and I hope that it will be.

Sarah
(stop complaining and do something constructive about it!)

On 8/13/06, Ron Blanchett <rrcb21 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Recently does not even come close to it. In the two years that I have been
> volunteering to work with you all on this convention I have seen nothing but
> bitching, bickering, fighting, complaining, etc, etc, etc...
> I wonder more and more every year how in the HELL we get anything done
> with just about everyone carrying on the way they do all of the time. If it
> isn't everyone jumping on the band wagon to complain about someones latest
> comment on one of the mailing list, which are supposed to be used for
> collaberative discussion by the way not fighting over updating the bylaw,
> getting in a argument with Rob because you misunderstood something he
> said,or celebrating his departure from the convention. Then it is everyone
> getting bitching because they don't think that someone isn't doing there job
> the way they would have done it. Sometimes even somepeople choising to
> micromanage everything to the point of people not wanting to work with them.
> I have seen all of this over the last two year and I am discusted by it.
>
> I hate to say this but to me it is starting to look like Year 5 might be
> the last year the Penguicon will be in existance, only because right now we
> are effectivly down to a two person board and no one is stepping up to fill
> in the gaps. Also at this very moment I am starting to feel just like Rob
> and Tracy and it is only because none of you seem to be able to get along
> with each other long enough to get any real work accomplished. If half of
> you put the time that you but into bitching, complaining, fighting, etc,
> etc, etc into getting something real accomplished then maybe just maybe we
> would be able to put on that much better of a convention every year.
>
> Ron
> Webmaster (but not for long if this shit keeps up)
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn at gmail.com>
> To: Penguicon Concom Discussion List <concom at penguicon.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 11:32:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [Penguicon-Concom] Re: [penguicon-general] Bylaws bullshit -
> oh, give it up already!
>
> Patricia,
> The feelings expressed by one person do not represent the whole
> convention. It would be unfair to judge the whole event by an isolated
> conflict, which seems to be what has been happening a lot recently.
> -Matt
>
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