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Originally Posted by IronicDeadBird
Showing a tolerance for mistakes is something that you should do when trying to get people to participate in a role with responsibility.
Albeit the header was poorly phrased, that section could have just been titled "accidents" or something.
The idea was fine the execution of it was horrible.
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I totally agree that tolerance is absolutely necessary. I've managed our volunteers for the past 2 years at the FRC off-season event that I founded and always make it a point to thank them all for giving up their personal time to help make our event run smoothly. None of this is possible without volunteers and we all make mistakes from time to time. We're all just trying to do our best at something we care a lot about.
I've never had volunteers 'screw up' enough to mandate an entire paragraph on what to do in case they 'screwed up.' Did a bunch of Minnesota college aged volunteers burn down a building or something? Seriously though what happened? I would think if you had a few isolated incidents that you would handle them privately and move on... instead they addressed it vaguely in a document and made everyone wonder 'oh boy, wonder what happened?'