Terrible Volunteer Experience

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Originally Posted by Adam Freeman

...He also was constantly rushing my drive team to get the robot setup. I know there is a schedule, but this is also a competition. We are trying to do some advanced things in Hybrid modes, and they don't work unless the robot gets setup correctly...which takes a little bit of time. Usually the field hasn't even connected before we are done with setup.

People asleep at pokey sticks or slow on returning balls just isn't ok (and yet I've seen it denied multiple times by others when it's pointed out). The rush off the field though, I think we can really do something about at a higher level. It's happened to us as well, and it seems that it's an honest lack of instruction to the volunteers. I hope next year they come out with a rule like "teams must be off the field by the time the first alliance is done being introduced", and will pursue this idea.

Instructions like this can't fix all the bad volunteer experiences, but in some situations I think they can help. As far as safety glasses, I like the two-minute loaner idea. How do the sign-outs work now?