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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TBH post COVID less and less families esp w younger kids help out. We see the same group of people pitching in
No one hides it that we need volunteers but it is frustrating to watch the same families do nothing while everyone else is stepping up. These are also the same people who don’t read emails and require tons of handholding from very exhausted team reps. I say make them pay [/quote]

What is the “old guard” doing to welcome these families in? I’m sure plenty of them would help. No need to generalize. Maybe they are unsure, or intimidated, or lazy. Maybe the old guard is taking all the good shifts and tasks, leaving the new people with the crap. [/quote]

Spoken like a true millennial![/quote]

I can't like this enough!!! Welcome them in?  No one needs to do a deep dive (pun intended) into why these people aren't volunteering - they aren't and therefore they should not have kids on swim team.

I assume there was a parent meeting/new parent meeting that should be enough for every single adult looking to have their kid on a swim team.  In 2018 I was a new swim parent, I had a 6U and a toddler.  They told us what was expected and how to sign up online to volunteer.  5 jobs and 3 food items.  The only question I needed to ask was where to I put the cut watermelon?

It'd be one thing if this thread was about teams being cliquey or rude to B swim families or whatever...but not feeling welcome to volunteer? Give me a break - the other term for that is lazy and entitled.  [/quote]

The attitudes on this thread are appealing. Yeah, real wonder why new families aren’t jumping in with 2 feet to volunteer when people are snarky and rude. And to the poster who wants to be the volunteer police… get a life. [/quote]

I have a life, which includes 3-4 hours a week volunteering to support summer swim for five weeks.  It’s not a heavy lift. Get over it or get out. And pools need to have systems instead a free for all so that none of the snark or resentment exists in the first place.  Set expectations and manage things.  My personal opinion is that pools that have volunteer issues have terrible team reps.[/quote]

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