Families that never volunteer - swim team
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Anonymous
you can’t get a sitter or a friend to watch your baby a couple of Sat mornings? |
Anonymous
And how does this help run a meet exactly? Are some of the timers going to get paid and some not? Maybe the lucky recipient is the poor clerk of course herding everyone's kids. I'm sorry but if the person who volunteered with my SO last week can do it - think of people who literally have the most important jobs in this town, you can do it. Or I don't know - since you have the funds...pay a babysitter so you can go to the meet and volunteer. |
Anonymous
That would be fine at our pool. It is volunteer or pay. You have two choices. |
Anonymous
Our Little League has the same rule, I might add. This is hardly unique to swimming. |
Anonymous
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I don't know how smaller teams (division 17) manage to hold a home meet without majority of parents volunteering since home meet requires 30+ jobs.
Probably because they don't have many entitled parents like the mid-level and upper division teams. |
Anonymous
We've done B meets with low division pools who wanted to host. We end up supplying most volunteers and it isn't an issue. I don't know how they host A meets though |
Anonymous
It's probably also harder to hide. |
Anonymous
“Shrimpers”? 🤔 |
Anonymous
NP here and curious how this works- paying to not volunteer. If everyone paid instead of volunteering, would that mean your pool would hire people to time and all the other tasks involved with running a meet? Our Little League also allowed you to pay instead of volunteering, but the volunteer needs were about staffing the concession stand and tryouts and pre/post-season field maintenance. Each team was responsible for running the scoreboard and lining the fields for each game and that was where families really either stepped up or didn’t. These duties were decoupled from the volunteer fee. |
Anonymous
We don't allow people to buy their way out of volunteering. We live in a wealthy area and everyone would buy their way out and there would be no one to run the meets. You aren't special because you have money - everyone around here has money. |
Anonymous
Team rep. I can see where finding a sitter for four or five hours on a Saturday morning would be hard for you. We have families on our team in similar circumstances. Those families volunteer to do the mid-week run to Costco to buy stuff for concessions. One mom is our treasurer, she can write checks in the evenings when kids are asleep. Another puts in the time to do the end of year slide show which is really meaningful to our seniors. Unless your team needs the money, find a way to contribute some time even if it isn't on deck. I do love the misspelled shrimpers, though. |
Anonymous
Is shrimpers some kind of euphemism? Like for 6U or something? |
Anonymous
| According to Merriam-Webster, “shrimpers” is a plural noun meaning youth swimmers whose parents do not (will not) volunteer to support summer swim team or summer swim meets. |
Anonymous
Obviously they need the donation or they wouldn’t be asking for it lol |
Anonymous
Our stuff is all weeknights. Never on a Sat. |