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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think part of the problem with recruiting volunteers for meets at UMD is that there is an Eppeley Center employee who is incredibly rude and unkind to the volunteers. Multiple volunteers were treated very badly by her during the session during which I volunteered. It doesn’t make people want to volunteer at that pool when they are talked to the way she talks to people. That has nothing to do with Toll though- it’s a separate issue. She was also saying we still needed 16 volunteers when it was like 7am and volunteers just hadn’t checked in yet (likely parking their cars, using the facilities and/or grabbing a snack before volunteering!) I think 90+% of the volunteers showed up on time for volunteering each day. There really wasn’t an issue with volunteers keeping their pre-registered commitments at this meet. She was just pre-emptively getting upset before the timers were even due to have checked in.   [/quote]

She’s a piece of work for sure and very alienating.  I’m what most would call a super volunteer and I absolutely refuse to volunteer at UMD meets because of her.  Volunteers are too early or too late or told to stand aside and belittled for asking simple questions.  She’s not the meet director or volunteer coordinator.  She’s security staff and should stay in her lane.  I was the volunteer check-in table one meet and she was micromanaging me.  I about lost my shit but walked away and vowed never to volunteer again in that facility. I talked with Tom Ugast (it was NCI) about my concerns and he completely dismissed them and thought she was fantastic. 🤯[/quote]

Ok well I would be happy to back you up. I volunteered one meet at hospitality and was in charge of getting things set up super early for the officials/coaches. I ended up working for about 6 hours. When I finally left, she asked me for my deck pass. I was legit confused and told her I didn’t have one. She started yelling at me and told me I should not have been on deck without one. I apologized and said I hadn’t realized because she wasn’t here when I entered the building. She proceeded to accuse me of lying. I’m sorry but I’m not spending 6 hours of my time volunteering if that is how you’re going to treat the people who are volunteering. [/quote]

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