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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
Libby got the name right. You should too. They're Safety Advisors, not inspectors. They don't exactly have the authority some of them seem to claim.
If one of the green-shirted folk tells you to do something that doesn't make sense, try to comply without compromising real safety, and then ask him or her to join you in a conversation about it with the Lead Safety Advisor. (The alternative is to laugh and say "You have no power here. Begone before someone drops a robot on you!" And then suggest the conference.)
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What happens when the person
telling ordering you to do something that doesn't make sense
is the Lead Safety Advisor?
That's happened to us, too.
Off-the-thread-topic, but: I'm looking at this from two hats - a mentor, and a Volunteer Coordinator.
No matter how much I try on the VC end, I still see a few SA's being way out of control and ridiculous. I've seen a Safety Advisor yell at kids at the event I was working.
Yell. I told him to calm down or I'd ask him to go home. There is no reason for any volunteer to yell at kids. Your job is to be there and make the event experience the best possible for the students...it's not about you. That's always my reminder to volunteers, every morning. And yet, it still happens. I'm not even sure how to fix it anymore.
As a mentor? Hey, maybe
stop yelling at my kids. What you're asking doesn't make any sense. Let's talk about this calmly instead of you standing in our pit in 'protest' until we fix your issue.
Back-On-Topic-Point being - keep everything inside of your 8x8 (or 9x9 or 10x10 if you're lucky) box, and hopefully you won't have to deal with that.