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[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]

[b]My bratty comment about superiority was because you people are horrible. [/b]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]
People are giving you ways to volunteer that you can manage, but it’s clear you don’t want to and would rather name call. 
You can hire someone to time for you. You can ask the rep what jobs you could do at other times - like Costco shopping, picking up concessions, planning pancake breakfasts. If you communicate with the reps in a mature manner - I’ve never seen anyone be anything other than gracious. 
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