Administration problems and unproductive team members

[GlassPrison142]

Our team has had this problem before. With over 50 members on our team, only about 10 do real work. The rest are friends of friends of friends who come to get out of school to go on competitions. While we were building our prototype during september some were already making buttons. Personally I also think having a "spirit" department really isn't... well anything. What work can the "Spirit" department do during build season/off season? Spirit is for competitions.

I always felt spirit and art, buttons, banners and all that goes with it has its own place, but it needs to be balanced. with ours there is no balance. Theres a general feeling that "oh, there will always be people to build the robot" when most of us are graduating. Someone needs to set up, and as of right now, no one is that isn't a senior or a junior. When we were out on the quarterfinals in Raleigh this year, people were legitimately more upset that we lost the spirit award than our place in the semi-finals. We (and the people who share the same opinions) tried to tell them that the spirit award is about the gracious professionalism part of it, and not just being obnoxious in the stands, as we (they) were. Either way though, you cant force people who don't want to build to build. Even though it is ROBOTICS. /end rant

My neck is going to get ringed if anyone on my team finds this post. This is basically treason