<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are (the secretary asked her when the next meeting was, and she replied "Oh, I don't know, whenever."), she has withdrawn her commitment to making the club enjoyable (removing the prizes for being the group with the highest number of community service hours) and stopped supporting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>