One Last Stand
One Last Stand from me as President this year ended in tears and anger.
The Meeting opened with my report over the year, with thank yous and the report of MacMs over the last few years and the thank you to my exec. Andrew then stood up and gave his speech on the treasury report.
Then Tamar stood up to talk about the constitution, but before he did that, he decided that he would let everyone know the issues we had and while yes, as much as the executive must let the members know if there are issues or problems, he stood up there and slandered everything, he made the exec look like a joke, which I cannot believe. Things he said that were not done, he had no idea that they had been amended as he was not at any other FUCKING MEETINGS!!!!!!!!!!
I mean Christ!!! He is a law student, but that does not give him the right to slander an exec, some of which are his friends, which in this case is irrelevant, but he has no right to make all of us look like absolute shit. He could have said it in so many nicer ways. Others slandered Dramac, and I find that so upsetting, we are here to work together. Not to be in FUCKING COMPETITION. I am so SICK of the politics.
I am not taking this as a personal attack, but I KNOW who he was refering to last night. Me. Pure and simple. Yes ok, I have made mistakes, huge mistakes, but I have tried my fucking hardest to amened them and all of them if not completley done already are going to be rectified.Next years exec will not have to deal with the mistakes that I have made, I will work myself into the ground to ensure that will not happen.
Anyway, as the meeting progressed, there were arguments, insults thrown around and general anger among so many. I had no idea how to control it, and as stupid and weak as it sounds, I had no energy to do it, I also felt that after what Tamar had said, that everyone deserved the chance to speak and have their voice head, should they want to ask questions, accuse etc. However it became out of control. Evan diplomatic as always passed a notion, that no one speak out of turn and that I have full control of the meeting, and should someone speak out of turn, I can throw them out of the meeting. I have never been more grateful. I was made more grateful, by encouraging messages that were sent to me throughout the meeting including one to look at Steve and watch him do is 'Husz' dance.
As the meeting progressed more, we got through the constitution, and began the voting process. I made it very VERY clear that should someone not be a member they CANNOT vote, they are by all means allowed at the meeting, but cannot vote.
We learnt later, that people had voted who were NOT members. I mean FUCK is it so hard to ask for people who are honest? That now meant that the process might have to begin again, like the entire process, to add that by now we had voted on the top 4 positions and only had 3 to go. So what do we do if we have to rerun the elections? The new exec lose their positions?
I was at breaking point, the meeting had been going for over 3 hours at this point. People were tired, hungry, fed up, shitty and everything else you can be. I couldn't believe how the night had panned out. I had NOT envisioned a night like this.
So in the end the returning officer, who was in charge of all the voting processes, made the decision to let it stay as it was, the only thing now is I have to make sure who was present and a member, but records can be wrong, but all I can go off is the member forms I have and compare them to ythe database.
Christ almighty, what a fucking year. I feel like I failed my role as President. I honestly think that someone like Luke, could have been so much better for the position, and this is not me looking for reassurance or sympathy, but it is how I feel. I didn't do what I should have, I didn't do what I dreamed of doing in this role. I had wanted it so much. At the last AGM, I was so excited, I had wanted this so much, I had so many ideas, so many plans.
And what did I do? FUCKED IT UP.
At the end of the meeting, I lost it, it took one person to say one thing to me, one nice thing I have to add.......and I burst into angry tears and was promptly handed a cigarette to calm down.
This is not how it was meant to work out. I am reliving the meeting in my mind as I write this. I am sorry to all who were present. I also apologise if anyone feels that things were not run correctly etc.
Thank you to everyone who supported me this year. I only hope that I didn't not disappoint anyone.
I tried.
The Meeting opened with my report over the year, with thank yous and the report of MacMs over the last few years and the thank you to my exec. Andrew then stood up and gave his speech on the treasury report.
Then Tamar stood up to talk about the constitution, but before he did that, he decided that he would let everyone know the issues we had and while yes, as much as the executive must let the members know if there are issues or problems, he stood up there and slandered everything, he made the exec look like a joke, which I cannot believe. Things he said that were not done, he had no idea that they had been amended as he was not at any other FUCKING MEETINGS!!!!!!!!!!
I mean Christ!!! He is a law student, but that does not give him the right to slander an exec, some of which are his friends, which in this case is irrelevant, but he has no right to make all of us look like absolute shit. He could have said it in so many nicer ways. Others slandered Dramac, and I find that so upsetting, we are here to work together. Not to be in FUCKING COMPETITION. I am so SICK of the politics.
I am not taking this as a personal attack, but I KNOW who he was refering to last night. Me. Pure and simple. Yes ok, I have made mistakes, huge mistakes, but I have tried my fucking hardest to amened them and all of them if not completley done already are going to be rectified.Next years exec will not have to deal with the mistakes that I have made, I will work myself into the ground to ensure that will not happen.
Anyway, as the meeting progressed, there were arguments, insults thrown around and general anger among so many. I had no idea how to control it, and as stupid and weak as it sounds, I had no energy to do it, I also felt that after what Tamar had said, that everyone deserved the chance to speak and have their voice head, should they want to ask questions, accuse etc. However it became out of control. Evan diplomatic as always passed a notion, that no one speak out of turn and that I have full control of the meeting, and should someone speak out of turn, I can throw them out of the meeting. I have never been more grateful. I was made more grateful, by encouraging messages that were sent to me throughout the meeting including one to look at Steve and watch him do is 'Husz' dance.
As the meeting progressed more, we got through the constitution, and began the voting process. I made it very VERY clear that should someone not be a member they CANNOT vote, they are by all means allowed at the meeting, but cannot vote.
We learnt later, that people had voted who were NOT members. I mean FUCK is it so hard to ask for people who are honest? That now meant that the process might have to begin again, like the entire process, to add that by now we had voted on the top 4 positions and only had 3 to go. So what do we do if we have to rerun the elections? The new exec lose their positions?
I was at breaking point, the meeting had been going for over 3 hours at this point. People were tired, hungry, fed up, shitty and everything else you can be. I couldn't believe how the night had panned out. I had NOT envisioned a night like this.
So in the end the returning officer, who was in charge of all the voting processes, made the decision to let it stay as it was, the only thing now is I have to make sure who was present and a member, but records can be wrong, but all I can go off is the member forms I have and compare them to ythe database.
Christ almighty, what a fucking year. I feel like I failed my role as President. I honestly think that someone like Luke, could have been so much better for the position, and this is not me looking for reassurance or sympathy, but it is how I feel. I didn't do what I should have, I didn't do what I dreamed of doing in this role. I had wanted it so much. At the last AGM, I was so excited, I had wanted this so much, I had so many ideas, so many plans.
And what did I do? FUCKED IT UP.
At the end of the meeting, I lost it, it took one person to say one thing to me, one nice thing I have to add.......and I burst into angry tears and was promptly handed a cigarette to calm down.
This is not how it was meant to work out. I am reliving the meeting in my mind as I write this. I am sorry to all who were present. I also apologise if anyone feels that things were not run correctly etc.
Thank you to everyone who supported me this year. I only hope that I didn't not disappoint anyone.
I tried.