No offense but there are way more people who will drop the ball and not care about it if you use volunteer than if you use the word mandatory. I asked for volunteers last year for my son's baseball team for umpires. By League rules, we had to provide a home base umpire or a field umpire for each game. My first email was nice asking for volunteers, saying you can pick your date, since we all have other obligations, we even said it did not have to be you specifically that you could have Uncle Joe do it if no one else was available they just ahd to be over 18.
I got 3 responses out of 12 back. Send out another email, telling them what dates were taken, still nothing. My final email told them that this was mandotory per League rules (which it was) and then I assigned dates accordingly. We had one person flake the whole season.
I also dont agree with penalizing the child for their parent's behavior but unfortunately it happens around here. Parent gets the child their late the player is penalized.
OP so this lady does not show and then loses her money but she proabbly wont care about that, but it stinks bc you are still short a person to fill a shift.
Parents can bring their own snacks. Done deal.
We have had stuff like this in our leauge. It just seemed to cause a lot of tension and bad blood with the madatory statements. We actually had money taken away from our team members when they worked the shifts because someone said they didnt work hard enough!
They did, and they missed their own kids play in a tourney too because they worked the whole two days in the stands. Not nice. They also wanted both parents to work at different fields from their kids. I will not leave my child unattended to work parking duty across town. Sorry.
