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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My favorite volunteers are the A-meet-parent-whose-kids-never-swim-B-meets who sign up first to take timer slots away from B meet parents who then have to take PTO to run the midweek pancake breakfast instead. And then these A meet parents humble-martyr themselves when meeting the other timers "Oh my kid actually isn't even swimming because she is doing the A meet. So, which one of the B meet losers is your kid?"[/quote]
Does this really happen?! Our team reps take great pains to assure people they don’t need to volunteer in a meet their kid isn’t swimming in, even letting you back out if you signed up for an A meet job but your kid didn’t make it that week. Granted we have a very large team so there should never be an issue with having enough volunteers, but I hate thinking people act that absurd (although deep down I know they do).[/quote]

I have never seen or heard anyone doing this and I’m fairly close with parents in several MCSL divisions as well as parents in the country club league. On our team, jobs are posted- you sign up for the ones you can do, whether it’s the day your child is swimming a meet or not. The parents in the A meets don’t get priority sign up time.[/quote]

They do if they are the ones who sign up first.[/quote]
If I was ba strictly A meet parent I would never sign up for B meet jobs because those meets take forever and are on weekday evenings. Why would anyone say you know what, let’s volunteer at a meet my kid is not in, that will be double the length of the meet my kid actually is in, and is on a weekday evening. I feel like that has to be an unusual circumstance. [/quote]

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