Backstabbing from the Least Expected Sources
Zeus let it slip that Gustavo (the head guy at Campus Activities) told him that Michelle (the current President of the Pagan Campus Organization, elected by apathy) told Gustavo that Zeus' opinions did not matter, and that she and Toby had tried to talk about removing Zeus from the group, and called him a meddling non-student and hinderance to the group.
I regard this back-stabbing action as an unforgivable insult.
Do you honestly think that you can call the ONE person who was willing to call people on campus who mattered, NOT powerless secretaries like Carole LeClair who could not give us approvals, but REAL decision makers like Gustavo and people at Facilities Management, a hinderance to the group?
The ONE person who literally SAVED THIS GROUP'S ASS in terms of being able to actually HAVE our 10th Annual Samhain Bonfire?
The ONE person who put in the effort to get through to the right people to get us a location approved for a bonfire? The ONE person who put in hours upon hours to build a bonfire pit out of a freaking oil tank so that we could have this event, a hinderance to the group?
How dare you take such an action. Where were you when Zeus got us a location for a bonfire? Where were you when I got ahold of Andrea Gifford for student funding instead of waiting for some other secretary who never responded? Where were you when we were busting our asses to pull this stuff off?
Do you really want to call Zeus a hinderance to the group? Do you want to pretend that he didn't pull off everything he did to save PaCO's ass? Do you want to pretend that he didn't get us a new location for a bonfire? Do you want to pretend that he didn't build us a freaking bonfire pit?? Then where would we be? Right back where we started, with you not wanting to talk to anyone, wanting to sit there accepting the "fact" that we couldn't, for the first time in 10 years, have a Samhain bonfire. Content to sit and watch the group die, just as it was doing last year.
I've been killing myself for a year or so now to save PaCO from death. I've put in the time to make buttons. I've put in the time to post flyers. I've sat at summer Student Orientation Fairs to try and get our existence out to new people. Zeus has put in a shitload of effort to save this group as well by now, working with me on these efforts this year. I don't appreciate seeing people actively shooting PaCO down while we've killed ourselves to save it.
I didn't ask for the position of Vice President. Yes, I'm not a student anymore. I enjoyed coming to the group and making efforts, building things, making buttons, designing flyers, running our webpage! I wasn't even interested in an Officer position. I know I'm not a student anymore. But I was nominated, and voted for, and put in place BY THE GROUP. They wanted me because I DO things. So I took it. And I've busted my ass to pull things like this off. I've done food shopping, I've budgeted, I've hauled things, I've stored things, I've made things. Zeus and I have put in 10 times the work that anyone else has ever even TRIED to. More than that even.
I still don't want to see PaCO die, as it came so close to doing, I think the group serves a wonderful purpose on campus and brings in wonderful people, when we put in some damn effort to let them know we're here. But I'm much less motivated now to continue trying to help it when others are actively hurting it, trying to knock down one of the only people who has actually been able to accomplish great things for us. I sincerely hope that the new members can take it over as soon as possible, and make something good out of it again for the future.
PaCO needs to be completely taken over by the new students. All new officers, and no one pulling power games, whining about how stressful it is to have a title that they don't even really do much with, not really wanting the group to ever do anything because that might mean they'd have to step up for the group, even though it's pretty easy to do so. I have been stepping up for this group for years, and Zeus did too in his time. I can't even name how many events I've pulled off by making things, hauling things, and setting things up. How dare other people whine about how little they have to do, and then have the nerve to try and get rid of the people who are actually accomplishing things. Grrr.
I regard this back-stabbing action as an unforgivable insult.
Do you honestly think that you can call the ONE person who was willing to call people on campus who mattered, NOT powerless secretaries like Carole LeClair who could not give us approvals, but REAL decision makers like Gustavo and people at Facilities Management, a hinderance to the group?
The ONE person who literally SAVED THIS GROUP'S ASS in terms of being able to actually HAVE our 10th Annual Samhain Bonfire?
The ONE person who put in the effort to get through to the right people to get us a location approved for a bonfire? The ONE person who put in hours upon hours to build a bonfire pit out of a freaking oil tank so that we could have this event, a hinderance to the group?
How dare you take such an action. Where were you when Zeus got us a location for a bonfire? Where were you when I got ahold of Andrea Gifford for student funding instead of waiting for some other secretary who never responded? Where were you when we were busting our asses to pull this stuff off?
Do you really want to call Zeus a hinderance to the group? Do you want to pretend that he didn't pull off everything he did to save PaCO's ass? Do you want to pretend that he didn't get us a new location for a bonfire? Do you want to pretend that he didn't build us a freaking bonfire pit?? Then where would we be? Right back where we started, with you not wanting to talk to anyone, wanting to sit there accepting the "fact" that we couldn't, for the first time in 10 years, have a Samhain bonfire. Content to sit and watch the group die, just as it was doing last year.
I've been killing myself for a year or so now to save PaCO from death. I've put in the time to make buttons. I've put in the time to post flyers. I've sat at summer Student Orientation Fairs to try and get our existence out to new people. Zeus has put in a shitload of effort to save this group as well by now, working with me on these efforts this year. I don't appreciate seeing people actively shooting PaCO down while we've killed ourselves to save it.
I didn't ask for the position of Vice President. Yes, I'm not a student anymore. I enjoyed coming to the group and making efforts, building things, making buttons, designing flyers, running our webpage! I wasn't even interested in an Officer position. I know I'm not a student anymore. But I was nominated, and voted for, and put in place BY THE GROUP. They wanted me because I DO things. So I took it. And I've busted my ass to pull things like this off. I've done food shopping, I've budgeted, I've hauled things, I've stored things, I've made things. Zeus and I have put in 10 times the work that anyone else has ever even TRIED to. More than that even.
I still don't want to see PaCO die, as it came so close to doing, I think the group serves a wonderful purpose on campus and brings in wonderful people, when we put in some damn effort to let them know we're here. But I'm much less motivated now to continue trying to help it when others are actively hurting it, trying to knock down one of the only people who has actually been able to accomplish great things for us. I sincerely hope that the new members can take it over as soon as possible, and make something good out of it again for the future.
PaCO needs to be completely taken over by the new students. All new officers, and no one pulling power games, whining about how stressful it is to have a title that they don't even really do much with, not really wanting the group to ever do anything because that might mean they'd have to step up for the group, even though it's pretty easy to do so. I have been stepping up for this group for years, and Zeus did too in his time. I can't even name how many events I've pulled off by making things, hauling things, and setting things up. How dare other people whine about how little they have to do, and then have the nerve to try and get rid of the people who are actually accomplishing things. Grrr.