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I ran across and unfortunate situation on Sunday. My guild The Win, which I help run with 3 other friends of mine, is focused around 10 man raiding. We are usually pretty good about sending out calendar invitations to raids 3 or 4 days before the next raid. This is really great because it gives raid leaders a chance to get a good look at who we have and what other classes we will need. It makes putting the raid together 5 times faster and it's just standard management procedure to let people know what's going on. This last week all of us forgot to do the invite. As such, some of our regulars pick up other raid invites, making them unavailable for raids with The Win, so we had to send invites to people that we didn't know so well. What this means is that these new people were inexperienced and under-prepared for such encounters. We made it all the way to the last boss in our Naxxramas raid, but we just couldn't get him down, partially due to it being very late. So we were stuck putting together an totally fresh raid on Sunday for Kal'Thuzad and Eye of Eternity. Since these are mid level raid instances and it was just two days before reset, I found putting together this raid was about as pleasant as picking up my dogs poop with an uncomfortably thin plastic bag. There just aren't enough well geared competent people available that late into the reset cycle. It's like going to a yard sale at the end of a Sunday: everyone already picked up the good stuff Saturday an hour before the sale started. Don't even bother.