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| Originally Posted by WeeJohnyB Nice post Chris and fully appreciate all the work you do for the DSC and agree with your tone right up to the last line. I think there is a place for people who do nothing but enjoy the club (and they do actually do something - they pay their membership!). I am more than happy that a few people put in some/a lot of effort for the enjoyment of others, eg for the trackday, a few people will see 100+ members and countless others have a fantastic couple of days.
Where I do agree is where people have a go at the 'doers' as Ray says without digging in their own time pocket and putting their money/time where their mouth is. I have been as guilty as many by suggesting what I think are good ideas - my perception may not agree with others and I am very unlikely to have all the facts to hand to know whether it is possible, so sometimes 'good' ideas will fall on apparently deaf ears. Hence I hear people saying 'I said we should do this and nobody took any notice', which is near useless without action on their part.
I do a little where I can, as do some others. As Ray says, just do it, some things don't need the sign off from the MT, but other big things do.
As long as people are happy being a 'doer' then I'm happy for me and for them. It's when the workload or grief (abuse/threats!?!) overtake the pleasure that it's not right. Hopefully that balance has seen some improvement in the past few months.
It wouldn't surpirise me if some of the MT stepped down this year, it's been a hard term in office for some. I just hope others come forward and we can have a democratic MT that runs a great bike club
WeeJohnyB |
John,
Perhaps I got that last bit wrong, what I suppose I was meaning was more along the lines of dont knock other peoples efforts, if you are not prepared to step up to the plate and put some effort in yourself.
If you do want to lean back and not participate, then that is anyone's right. However in much the same way that we have become ever more watchfull of public servants and in particular MPs, they are paid to work for us by us the taxpayer. The members of the MT, RO's and others who put in an awful lot of effort on behalf of the Club and the membership are a group of un-paid volunteers, who use their own time, money, etc for the benefit of others.
If you are not happy with what they are doing that is what we have an AGM for, put your name down and step up to the plate then make that change.
I got copied in on something from another site regarding the content of Pronto last week. The person in question was bemoaning the fact that he was reading about similar articals from the same group of people. To the best of my knowledge that person has never submitted anything to Pronto for publication, but expects that others will write the articals that he wishes to read for his enjoyment; I am afraid that life just doesn't work that way.
I think that we will see at the AGM at Cadwell on the Monday night, that an enourmous amount of progress has been made over the last 6 months. A lot of the background activities that have been going on since the EGM are now coming to fruition.
Some hard questions have been asked and I would hope that they will be answered at that meeting.