Terrible Volunteer Experience

[DjScribbles]

I, my wife, and one of the parents all had a very similar experience.

My wife and I got to the pits before realizing we forgot the bag with the safety glasses in the car. My wife just wanted to stop in and see how the kids were doing, I was going to help with some changes to the robot. We were denied after stating we were mentors, and told to call someone on the team or go get them. I shrugged it off, kinda a pain, but I was able to borrow a pair from our inbounder, who wasn't going to the pits anyway.

But later, one of the kids parents who isn't really involved in the building of the robot, but also wanted to go see how the kids were doing had this scenario:
He asked for the safety glasses.
The woman asked if he was a mentor or a visitor.
He responded that he was a mentor, as he's helped the team with things like fund raising and such.
The woman responds that the glasses are for visitors, members of the team are responsible for bringing their own.
The parent states that at all of our other events in michigan, that it was never a problem for him to borrow a set of safety glasses.
The woman says "Well this is St Louis, not Michigan".


We also had a parent forced back out into the downpour by event staff just before the hail/tornado because he came in the wrong door after he took the team trailer back to the garage after loading our stuff up.