Thread: Terrible Volunteer Experience
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Unread 01-05-2012, 13:43
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Re: Terrible Volunteer Experience
My wife was a safety glass distribution engineer last year in St Louis. She did not have a very positive experience. Sounds like the same problems persisted this year. I think it's mostly miscommunication between teams and FIRST.

FIRST doesn't have enough safety glasses at the Championship to be able to loan them to teams. (Last year on Wed or Thurs they overnighted more safety glasses to St Louis for the weekend)

The volunteers at Championship are instructed to only give glasses to visitors. As pointed out already, teams are instructed to bring enough for themselves and they will not be loaned glasses. Maybe this needs to be a separate e-mail blast before Championship to get the point across.

Also, if you do have a problem with a volunteer, you can go to pit admin who can get a hold of the volunteer coordinator responsible.