I always thought that gardening was a way to relieve stress :)

Good grief! These people are certainly taking things to a new level aren't they?
Cheers,
Dee.

After being involved in Administration of a Orchid club 15 years and just a plain old member of a garden club 3 years. They changed some of the rules to stop me winning the monthly points, apprently some of the old ladies did not like a new commer beating them. I can assure you one old dear cornered me and told me she should have won because etc and I had no right to win that section.

Nothing would supprise me at all. Behind the scenes there is often penny picking situations that can evolve into a real problem.
In the end I just walked out, their loss not mine.
I think you will always find in many clubs and groups there is always a power play and the attitude its mine dont interfer.

Another club (fishing) I was involved in, I over stepped a pecking order when I was asked by a member to help her to cast into the surf. I was very quickly told you dont do that even though I was asked. I call it "Kingdom Building" by non club minded people.

Keith

I became President of a service club in our town.I was seen as some new blood because no one else wanted the job.The Treasurer has been there forever and he is still doing a good job and we all get on okay.I guess you are always going to have some people who want to control every thing.I hope by being "the outsider" I am not prejudiced by small town politics and well frankly I don;t care what they think.We have even scored some of the old volunteers back becasue some of the "niggly ones " have left.
It saddens me that people just can't get on and work as a community.I was especially amused by the newspaper report because the people who started the breakaway group obviously knew the other festival was going to be on a particular date so why make them calsh in the first place.I mean really.........!

Well that's interesting! Our garden club had received a flyer some months ago stating that the 'Wondai garden festival' had been moved to Murgon. Clearly this is not necessarily a foregone conclusion as yet. I certainly hope they get it sorted before April.

I don't think all people on this site are so passive as I posted a reply to someones posting & because he resented my attitude I received an email to my address browbeating his attitude when I answered a bit smart, he emailed me back saying that he would like to hit me over the head with a peice of 4 x 2 does that sound peaceful do you think?
Jan.

Its great, isnt it ? Human nature seems to dictate that everything will be roses (no pun intended) for as long as everyone agrees with the 'Alpha' male/female, but heaven help anyone who dares to question them.

The organisation I work for has a host of vicious political in-fighters, and its never a surprise to find that they are active in other parts of the community. Its my firm belief that the little Hitlers drive people away from clubs of all persuasions, and it has made me reluctant to join anything which might attract their ilk.

Viva la individual :)

Jan, That would be so funny if it was'nt so sad.
There are some strange people around or should I say stupid.

Artview, That is also why I gave our local garden club a miss. 90% of the members were great but a couple were a real pain in the neck. A pity because I like the idea of a garden club.

Hi Ginnybee - I am so sorry to hear that you were subject to abuse. I have received the same in the past. This is for the most part a cheerful group of people, but occasionally we all get a bit hot headed. I do not approve of abusive or opinionated notes being sent to people offline - if someone can't answer on the forum then they should not try and hide behind anonymity. My solution to that (Which I have used, but not on GW) is to simply post the received letter to the open forum (oops - did i reply to the whole group - Sooo sorry!)
You will generally find the sender will back right off. It might upset a few of the group members but so be it!
What do others think?
Jan

Sorry to hear that Jan Ginnybee I have never received anything like that.""That's Shocking""
Maybe I will soon as I am moaning about the huge photos people are posting on the Gallery.

Jan Sparaxis That's a marvelous idea.....
Maybe we should have a open forum also where we can disgust these problems.
On one Forum a certain person gives me heaps so much so that I think twice about posting.
Cant quite work out if he hates females that grow something in Qld or hates females that grow them in the shade.
Whatever it is he has a BIG problem with me and all I have ever done to him is admire his flower photo's.
I must have had rocks in my head, just hope he reads this thread.....Cheers..MM.

Would probably make the trek to wondai if I could see two garden events at the same time, I might even make a weekend of it and spend money on accomodation. I say let the" better event win" and may the other RIP. This sort of thing seems to be only too common - no wonder people are so reluctant to volunteer for anything. EGO's are very sad things and so are the vested interests that allow these things to be supported by volunteers until they are viable and then step in to take over when it becomes profitable. So very sad. A pity the only winners here will be from outside either of the "garden festivals"

Hello Jan,
Plato said words to the effect of- he could understand a child afraid of the dark, the tragedy of life was when adults were afraid of the light.
Neil

Interesting topic! It's about egos, we all have one but some peoples are out of control..Regarding the forums, I think internet can sometimes exasperate these things unfortunately, due to the fact that it's an imperfect medium for communication. So much of our day to day communication is body language and inflection and all that is missing in writing. Having said that this forum is great, lots of great, interesting and helpful people. Lets keep it this way! My girlfriend used to chat on a *certain* poulty forum which got so competitive and nasty they took it down! It was completely ridiculous... what a shame...

>Would probably make the trek to wondai if I could see two garden events at the same time

I'd have to question whether there would be enough exhibitors to make 2 shows a success though.