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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s my proposal:

Several days before the meet, set a volunteer deadline. If any volunteer slots are empty after the deadline, the team will assign a family who has not signed up for their volunteer obligation  to that slot and notify them. Those families have several days to contact other families to swap places or to find replacements.

If they are still a no-show on the day of the meet, the announcer opens an auction and offers to pay someone to fill in, starting at $100, and rising by $20 increments until the volunteer spot is sold, oversold flight style. The family who failed to sign up in advance, failed to find a replacement, and failed to show up will be billed for the amount.

This way, parents who are short on cash can pick up some money, parents who don’t care about volunteering can pay their way out of it, and collectively, the team can express their disdain for those few who never volunteer by letting the price go up as high as they want to punish them.

Plus, how fun would that be. [/quote]

This was my proposal and it’s still my hope and dream that a team will institute this. This is how my med school handled finding someone to transcribe lecture notes for every class. There was a particularly annoying guy who always no showed and we always let the price run as high as possible to punish him. I think it reached $400 once.

But a less exciting way to incentivize people is to charge every family a $500 volunteer deposit at the beginning of the season. If they fulfill their requirements, the deposit is returned. If not, the team keeps the $500. This plan has a flaw in that people will race to sign up for the easier tasks and the harder tasks will still be unfilled. The first proposal hits the sweet spot in that it should prevent unfilled spots for every meet. [/quote]

The volunteer deposit needs to be higher in this area. Make it $5k.[/quote]

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