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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP who posted about “I’m not going to do that” guy: New week, new meet, new unhelpful parent.

It was time for the second volunteer shift and one mom was missing. I found her as she was walking out with a bag and two kids.

Me: “hi, you’re signed up to work the second half of the meet!”
Her: “I’m leaving! I’ll never be treated like that again!”

Her kids were playing under the scorer’s table and someone asked them to move to the team area. She found it offensive and used it as a reason to leave in a huff. It seems like every meet has a “misunderstanding” like this. I had to cover her shift.

The coaches are having their own struggles. Kids aren’t signing out of meets and are screwing other kids on the ladder out of event spots. We’ve never had a problem with this and so it’s too late to put in a penalty policy for this season. The manager and coaches are putting together a policy for next season to hold no-shows out of the next meet and/or levy no-show fees to families.

It feels like Covid has damaged our families’ ability to manage swim team and/or interpersonal interactions.[/quote]

When you demand volunteers you need volunteers to supervise the kids of those volunteering. [/quote]

:shock: . Uh, no. You figure it out like every other family. You are not special.[/quote]

Figuring it out means the kids run wild.   Either help supervise or don’t complain.  [/quote]
No, I don’t need to help supervise someone else’s kids. Also this person wasn’t even volunteering when her kids were “running wild”, she should have been supervising them.[/quote]

This.  Give me a break. There are parents everywhere. Ask a friend or a teenager to help watch while you sell snacks for 30 mins. I traded off with a friend on the team with kids our kids age when they were little. Not hard. [/quote]

We have a small team, so not a lot of parents just sitting.   The teens are aready helping out.  [/quote]

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