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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+1 for the rude security lady.

DC was doing a time trial which required you to bring your own timer. She wouldn’t let me on deck to time. She was not “familiar” and knew nothing about it, so wouldn’t let me in.[/quote]

I think most who have volunteered know who this lady is.  But, I give her a little grace and just try to minimize my interactions with her and do what I need to do.  On the flip side of this coin, she's probably had to evolve to this posture over years of dealing with countless number of entitled swim parents who think their situation/circumstance is special/different and won't take "no" for an answer - so she's built up this front to shut all that down from the get-go.  I think she's probably the right person for this job -- maybe not what you would want but what we all need.  I know this is a minority/unpopular opinion but I for one, thank her for doing a tough/thankless job.

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Yet somehow every other venue functions fine without someone like her.    [/quote]

And other venues don’t experience the same problems getting volunteers.  I’ve never seen them more than a couple timers short at fairland or Claude Moore.  But at UMD they are often short a dozen or more.[/quote]
That is a reach. Almost every meet we attend - which is a lot between multiple kids and both club and HS - they are begging for timers, regardless of the venue. 
UMD may seem like it’s more, but it’s probably because they’re running two prelims pools simultaneously, so need double the timers. And for any meet with finals, getting finals volunteers is usually a problem. 
I really don’t think the 2 minute interaction with that woman is the problem with getting enough volunteers. 
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Glad to hear what you think. Others on this thread have flat out said they won’t volunteer because of her[/quote]
Sure, but that doesn’t change the fact that UMD-held meets aren’t unique in their struggle to get enough volunteers. There are other underlying issues. Namely, that there are a lot of parents that simply don’t do their part, regardless of the facility in question.
And if this is truly a deterrent for some parents at UMD, I’m sorry, but that’s not an excuse to let a bunch of other parents pull off a meet so your kid can swim. [/quote]

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