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Dear volunteers,
Director of the place you volunteer leaves you a note saying "Hey, after 2 today (which is the last 8 hours we're open), there'll be one person here. To feed lots of baby animals. Be nice to her, since there are five to six of you working, and get everything else done since she won't be able to do much of anything but feed babies once she gets there."
That's a pretty clear note, right? Right?
Then DON'T do the bare minimum (I'm pretty sure you even failed to supervise and train the new people) and leave duties for me that require more than one person. Or act like you're doing me a favor by helping out with a feeding before you leave (when you've just told me that I have to go feed damn owls). Because I sat down for TEN MINUTES in 8 hours AND trained two new people that randomly showed up AND admitted five opossums (because you failed to actually do anything with them) and a goose and a red tailed hawk.
I got lucky that another experienced volunteer called me to ask if I needed help and came in for a few hours, and that the vet staff came by to help me out. I still had to clean the damn turtles, though. Who can't clean up after turtles????
No love,
Overworked Heather who is now going to bed.
Director of the place you volunteer leaves you a note saying "Hey, after 2 today (which is the last 8 hours we're open), there'll be one person here. To feed lots of baby animals. Be nice to her, since there are five to six of you working, and get everything else done since she won't be able to do much of anything but feed babies once she gets there."
That's a pretty clear note, right? Right?
Then DON'T do the bare minimum (I'm pretty sure you even failed to supervise and train the new people) and leave duties for me that require more than one person. Or act like you're doing me a favor by helping out with a feeding before you leave (when you've just told me that I have to go feed damn owls). Because I sat down for TEN MINUTES in 8 hours AND trained two new people that randomly showed up AND admitted five opossums (because you failed to actually do anything with them) and a goose and a red tailed hawk.
I got lucky that another experienced volunteer called me to ask if I needed help and came in for a few hours, and that the vet staff came by to help me out. I still had to clean the damn turtles, though. Who can't clean up after turtles????
No love,
Overworked Heather who is now going to bed.
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