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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't have time to read through 19 pages of this nonsense but I judge the volunteer nazis like OP who deliberately try to make people feel bad.  Same person who gets into a tizzy when the volunteers' shirt isn't 100% white cotton or if someone makes a mistake when filling out those unnecessary ribbons. SMD, OP.

Riddle me this, how is a single parent with one kid swimming and two others who aren't because they aren't old enough or don't want to but aren't old enough to be at home by themselves supposed to volunteer for 5 effing swim meets, plus all of the other stupid events such as needing volunteers for tie-dying shirts, or for pancake breakfasts or for the rootbeer floats. It's so much bullshine.

Perhaps at registration allow folks to opt out from volunteering for an additionl $50-$100. Then you could hire the additional help needed to do the meets.

For B meets, why not just one or two timers? It's not important at all and if little Johnny is going to swim in 8 meets he doesn't need 24 different time samples for each stroke to figure out if he's good enough for all stars or whatever else.[/quote]

That’s a really easy riddle. You don’t sign your kid up for swim team if you can’t fulfill your volunteer duties. Swim team is optional, remember?[/quote]

Someone way upthread said exactly this about themselves- their kids do not swim because they can't or won't fulfill their volunteer duties...and she/he got jumped on for that.[/quote]
Not quite. 
She got jumped on because of her bratty comment on superiority. In fact I believe one poster even said she did the right thing by not signing up if she didn’t want to volunteer. [/quote]

My bratty comment about superiority was because you people are horrible. If I knew that a family didn’t have their kid participate in a sport I was heavily involved in because they couldn’t figure out the volunteer requirement, I would feel terrible. I would NEVER want a kid to be excluded because both parents work night shifts and grandma couldn’t manage being a meet timer. This whole thread is disgusting, tit for tat, judgmental martyrs.[/quote]
🙄 I think most of the frustration from swim families is not the situation you just described. It’s the groups of parents we see at every meet gathered together laughing and chatting through the whole meet who never volunteer. Those parents are freeloaders, and yes they do suck. [/quote]

The situation above, parents who truly can't volunteer, is the reason our team have always said they don't have required volunteer hours. They don't want a kid to not do swim team because their parents can't volunteer. However, this would big a big exception and not the norm and something I don't think any parents would object to. The situation described above- parents who never volunteer and spend the entre meet socializing is more typical. We have had team reps in the past who would walk up to parents and personally ask them to volunteer. [/quote]

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