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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We had a group of younger parents at the pool this year stage a "coup" because they think they should just be allowed to pay extra money and not volunteer. While I agree in principle on this, they could not seem to understand that not everyone can pay their way out of volunteering. Some people have to volunteer. There is nobody to hire to do these jobs.[/quote]

I’m a younger parent but my peers infuriate me. Summer swim team is not an all-inclusive resort but they treat it like one. After years of parents whining that “we should just hire people” while simultaneously saying the fees are too expensive, our pool tried a buy-out program for the first time, with a list of “retired” high schoolers available for hire for volunteer slots. The catch is that parents had to contact them and make arrangements. Now they are complaining that the club or coaches should arrange for that.

My new favorite is parents signing up but hiding at meets. I had to go find missing volunteers who had signed up for various jobs but never reported for duty, and one of them deigned to take one airpod out of his ear to tell me “yeah I’m not going to do that” when I told him he had signed up and needed to report to the lane. He knew exactly what he was doing, because we couldn’t exactly cancel the meet or punch him in the face. Instead we scrambled to find a replacement, and later he argued that he had been at the meet and fulfilled his volunteer duty.

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I'm so surprised by these parents. Where are you PP? 
There are plenty of parents on our team who don't volunteer but if you catch them just lounging around every meet and confront them I'm sure they would be mortified.
It's so classist to want to hire out volunteer duties. That's one nice thing about swim team is that all the parents are supposed to volunteer. We have moms and dads who live in multi million dollar houses and have high-powered jobs carrying chairs around with the rest of us working class peeps.[/quote]

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