Enough to make your damn head spin...
Have you ever tried to explain to someone, say a boss or friend or, say, a group you volunteer for, that you are just too busy to be doing everything you are doing at that particular time, and if the load doesnt ease up a bit you are going to go F-ING CRAZY AND KILL SOMEONE?
And then they spend the rest of the conversation saying, "well, maybe if you did this and this and this, everything else will just work out... maybe if you did the work you are doing faster, then you could get everything done..."
And in the back of your mind you are trying to remember where you put that damn knife sharpener...
You know what sucks about volunteer organizations? You are stuck with whomever volunteers for the most part. You cant just fire someone who you feel is incompetent. You also cannot force people to volunteer, thus you are usually stuck with a shortage of volunteers for all the whacked out ideas that the incompetent people who do volunteer come up with.
incompetent person: "gee, wouldnt it be great if we could come up with a cure for cancer by next month?"
me: "uh, yeah, sure... but the problem is we dont have enough volunteers to support that type of initiative..."
incompetent person: "well maybe if you worked a little faster, and did a little more, it would be possible."
me: "but Im already doing..."
incompetent person: "that sounds good, look foward to seeing that next month... as soon as I get back from vacation..."
Where did I put that damn knife sharpener?!?!!?!!!
Volunteer organizations would be great if you could weed out people who just cant seem to understand that everyone is a volunteer and maybe you dont always have the resources to save the fricken world. Instead they infest the good people in the organization like a disease, until the good people walk away with their hands over their ears...
"lalalalalalala.... Im not listening to you anymore.... save the damn world yourself.... I would much rather watch it suffer than work with you...."
happy f-ing Monday everyone...
nick
And then they spend the rest of the conversation saying, "well, maybe if you did this and this and this, everything else will just work out... maybe if you did the work you are doing faster, then you could get everything done..."
And in the back of your mind you are trying to remember where you put that damn knife sharpener...
You know what sucks about volunteer organizations? You are stuck with whomever volunteers for the most part. You cant just fire someone who you feel is incompetent. You also cannot force people to volunteer, thus you are usually stuck with a shortage of volunteers for all the whacked out ideas that the incompetent people who do volunteer come up with.
incompetent person: "gee, wouldnt it be great if we could come up with a cure for cancer by next month?"
me: "uh, yeah, sure... but the problem is we dont have enough volunteers to support that type of initiative..."
incompetent person: "well maybe if you worked a little faster, and did a little more, it would be possible."
me: "but Im already doing..."
incompetent person: "that sounds good, look foward to seeing that next month... as soon as I get back from vacation..."
Where did I put that damn knife sharpener?!?!!?!!!
Volunteer organizations would be great if you could weed out people who just cant seem to understand that everyone is a volunteer and maybe you dont always have the resources to save the fricken world. Instead they infest the good people in the organization like a disease, until the good people walk away with their hands over their ears...
"lalalalalalala.... Im not listening to you anymore.... save the damn world yourself.... I would much rather watch it suffer than work with you...."
happy f-ing Monday everyone...
nick
posted by Nick at
12:14 PM
1 Comments:
I work with a lot of volunteers. We recently started using a contracting process but I'm not sure it really works. A lot of writing on youth work suggest proper interviews and contracts for volunteers but it just tends to put people off from volunteering. I find the hardest thing being that when we work together I'm at work and their in their "off duty" time. However all that said. We couldn't do it without them. So a big thank you to all those people who do give up their time, eh?
(I'm sorry I seem to have come over rather Canadian at the end there!)
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