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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our HOA in VA just sent an email this afternoon that the pool service company they use is having trouble finding lifeguards.

If they can't find some this week, the pool may not open Memorial Day weekend.

Honestly, it is taking everything in me not to write an irate email back.

Our pool didn't open at all last summer even though those all around us did.

They didn't just rope off equipment during the pandemic - they fully removed it in most cases.  Like the basketball hoops and tennis court nets.  Then they later came and padlocked the tennis court door because people kept going inside and hitting balls even without nets.  The hoops and nets JUST got put back up last week!

The clubhouse gym has been closed since it began & remains that way even though other gyms are open.  We've had no summer movie nights or Independence Day fireworks (which I agree, should have been canceled during the pandemic) but the updates for this summer have not been positive.  What exactly am I paying for??

[b]These pool service companies[/b] should have realized they weren't going to be able to bring in their cheap Eastern European labor for this summer and planned accordingly. [/quote]

I hadn't heard of any having difficulty staffing, but it makes sense if they rely on hiring from out of the country. Thankfully ours hires locally (I am pretty sure all of our guards this year belong to our pool). Good luck.[/quote]

Yes, many of these pool service companies hire lifeguards from overseas and they can not get a visa to get in to the county. [/quote]

That is a shame. Why don't they hire local kids? Can they get away with paying the Eastern European kids less? When I was a teenager I lifeguarded at the pool I grew up going to. Those were some of the best summers of my life. I think it also helps the pool run more smoothly when the lifeguards enforcing the rules are the "big kids" that the younger ones look up to. I knew all the little kids at my pool and some of them would ask us to get in the pool and play with them on our breaks. We were like their older siblings in some ways. [/quote]

I’m sure they would if they could, but I don’t think as many kids train to be lifeguards anymore. They’re working on things that will improve their college apps, or interning for professional jobs. [/quote]

Kids really don't want lifeguard jobs these days.  And lifeguard pay is shockingly low.  They can make much more money doing other jobs.

-mom of a lifeguard [/quote]

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