Terrible Volunteer Experience

[JohnSchneider]

Originally Posted by IndySam

I have read this entire thread and I do agree that no one has the right to be rude. But......

Folks this is the World Championship. This is not your first time at a competition. There is simply no excuse for not having your safety glasses with you at all times if there is ever even a remote possibility that you will need to go to the pits. Forgot in the stands, then suffer the consequences and go get them. I can't think of a single reason to ever leave them in the pits!

From the posts in this thread there seams to be a lot of people who do this. It sounds like it is a big problems for teams so how can you expect a volunteer to keep track of deposits or drivers licenses and the like.

Imagine a poor volunteer that gets the same request or story time after time when they have been instructed to not give them to team members. How quickly would you get frustrated? How many sets of glasses would FIRST have to provide?

Accidents happen though, and that is what were not allowing for.

If you forgot a part or something breaks, the community doesnt scold you for it - and we actually have an entire station to help you get what you need so you can participate. Yes, even at the world level we have this.

You cannot make an argument that we should not have a spare safety glasses table, and still call for the spare parts table. The logic is the same. Everyone works hard to get to that point - something small shouldnt set them back. FIRST isnt an organization centered around consequences - were one centered around making sure everyone gets a chance.

But that again was not the point of the thread. My original problem was that the problem I had the first day was not solved. She was still there the next two days. She was still causing problems all of those days. As is seen in this thread several people had the issue. It is a problem that nothing was done then. You cannot condone swearing and bigotry on the part of a volunteer in a FIRST setting. She was presenting a bad image for FIRST. The thread was to show that nothing had been done on FIRST's part to solve the problem - and to draw awareness to something before it becomes common place.