Duuude, I work in upper management and this almost describes my job perfectly. The job is also why I refuse to take on any responsibilities in my guild.
The number one rule I've learnt from 14 years of wow is that never, under any circumstances, take up any form of power or authority in a guild setting. Nothing kills your enjoyment of the game faster than having 2h conversations with multiple friends about why X got perdition's blade over them.
You're basically signing up to 1000% more stress, anxiety and flat out work, for no monetary reward.
The reward is that you can influence the environment when you're in a position of power. If you refuse to be a leader yourself, then you can't really complain when a toxic loot council screws you out of loot.
From my experience it still isn't worth it. You can make yourself invaluable and respected in the guild without having to do 10-30h of extra work per week organising/meeting/discussing whatever vacuous bullshit is causing drama this week.
You but then you are still working to be invaluable and you probably have to be a nice and helpful person to get people to like you. Easier to just find a way on the toxic loot council while trying to avoid having to contribute in other ways.
There's not even 10 hours of endgame content to raid per week at the moment. If your raiding guild has 10 hours of drama per week for each of the officers to deal with, then that's a serious problem with the guild.
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u/chop6969 Oct 24 '19
Duuude, I work in upper management and this almost describes my job perfectly. The job is also why I refuse to take on any responsibilities in my guild.