Incompetent Club Presidents?

<p>I just kinda needed to rant and ask a few questions about incompetent club presidents...
*This is kinda long, so please skip to the end with questions if you don't want to read the whole story...
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RANT:
Well, I am in two clubs, one as a VP and the other as Secretary. Of the two clubs, one existed before I joined, and the other I founded with my friends.</p>

<p>For the first one, the president is a friend of mine. At the beginning of the year, she promised great prizes and fun contests and community service activities. She also "gave up marching band" to dedicate herself to the club. She is in no other club and wanted to "make it better than the previous year".</p>

<p>However, she doesn't run the club successfully. Not only does she NOT know when meetings are (the secretary asked her when the next meeting was, and she replied "Oh, I don't know, whenever."), she has withdrawn her commitment to making the club enjoyable (removing the prizes for being the group with the highest number of community service hours) and stopped supporting fun fundraising activities (she canceled a video game competition, which many people were looking forward to, because "we don't know how to do it").</p>

<p>She leaves the running of the club and other work undone and my friend and I do it instead. When we ask her to do something, she gets annoyed and complains about how useless it would be and that she doesn't have time. The thing is, my other friend and I are both in marching band, while, as previously mentioned, she gave it up for the club. She has stated before that the VP "does all the work that the president doesn't want to." My friend and I basically run the club, with e-mailing members, organizing activities, and maintaining a website.</p>

<p>In the second club I am in, I serve as secretary, and another friend as VP. This club is competitive, so we often need to meet outside of the regular 30-minute meetings during the school day. We also need to apply and organize and plan all competitions. However, the president does almost nothing. The VP and I organize the competitions and correspond with our advisor. We basically run this club, as well.</p>

<p>In both these clubs, my friends and I have kind of complained to each other and dropped hints to the presidents. However, they do not change at all.</p>

<p>/rant
So, here's my questions...
What should I do to make the presidents do their part?
I don't want to have my friend and I only run the club, and I kinda feel like these presidents are only presidents because they want something on their college applications.
I don't want to just stop doing my part, because then the club will stop functioning properly and the members will definitely be disappointed.
*How do I tell them to do their part without losing them as a friend? * Both these people are friends of mine and pretty close too. However, I get annoyed when they don't work. One gets annoyed back, the other just ignores it. I don't want to lose the friendship over a club, but I also don't want to keep supporting everything by myself.
*Should I just "suck it up"? * I feel like I'm just being whiny, but this has been going on for practically the whole semester.</p>

<p>Does anyone else have this problem too?</p>

<p>Thanks for any advice/help beforehand.</p>

<p>Dude, it's a high. school. club. It's not supposed to be absolutely fantastic with a huge budget and lots of influence. Just do your part, stop being perfectionist, and run for president next year where you can a) make the changes you want or b) take the same path.</p>

<p>Hm, I guess so.
Maybe I just needed to rant.
Thanks.</p>

<p>yea basically what PlanPlusDebater said. the first president sounds fine to me. she sounds pragmatic. oftentimes putting on events like a video game competition is more difficult than you would think. it also seems as though she is aware of the limits of the club and realizes that there is no point to wasting resources on unsuccessful events. i think you guys need to self-delegate tasks. each officer needs to pick one activity they are passionate about and pursue it. that way you guys can avoid butting heads.</p>

<p>also, i wouldn't tell them to do their job since it's not even really clear, at least from what i've read, that any of you know what their actual job is.</p>

<p>Um, do you expect high school clubs to be well run?</p>

<p>.01% of the time they are 'efficicently' run like a real organization. </p>

<p>Once you get to the state/national level they become more like real organizations</p>

<p>Wow... our high school clubs are just, clubs. </p>

<p>No website, no quiting classes to manage clubs, no really anything.</p>

<p>You'd really get on my case if you were in my film club. :)</p>

<p>I'm president and all we do every Monday is watch a movie. No fundraiser, no membership fees, no real leadership doing anything, no school events, etc. Members are on a come and go basis. No obligations. We just don't need them. All we need is a TV, DVD player, and an advisor. </p>

<p>And still, its one of the biggest clubs in the school.</p>

<p>I understand how angry/annoyed you may feel. But unless you're going to remove this person from their position (which they may hate you for, just put up with it. There may be a legit reason why she can't help out. You never know.</p>

<p>If you really want to do something: Say flat-out what you want to say to your adviser. They may be the only person able to remove them from the position if they're incompetent. But, you may lose a friend that way. And if they're a senior, they may have to contact the colleges to notify them they were removed from their position. Be aware of that.</p>