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Post by mrenglish4 on Jun 14, 2010 15:51:44 GMT -5
WET and everyone else in charge of volunteering this year sucked. There were like 5 different companies hired in to volunteer/work all trying to work together and that sure the hell didn't happen. Basically everyone not in a blue shirt (besides access) were paid workers who were suppose to do the "important" stuff. I thought WET was brought in to make things go smoother than last year but that was all but the case. They again had way too many volunteers.
I worked toll booths at 930 pm on wed (and was told i was helping with parking) and was shipped out to wait in the mud until 3 am when they already had like 5 other workers in the area only to be shipped off to another location to wait another 4-5 hours until finally the paid parking workers showed up and the regular volunteers just stood along the road for 3 hours pretending that cars cant follow the car in front of them.
My second shift at 9:30-4am on Thursday night was no better. Went and signed in for my shift only to be told there was nothing for us to do and to wait around a few hours and we'd probably be sent home. Well after sitting around for a few hours some lady comes and says that we all need to reschedule our shifts to work Fri, sat or Sunday with clean vibes but they'd only be 6hr shifts. Well most of us had already worked a 13 hour shift and were only working 6 hours anyway and had already been there 2 hours plus we signed up for toll booths because we were told we would be done no later than Friday night. Finally the lady said she couldn't make us change our shift and let us go.
I'm not really complaining considering I got a free ticket for sleeping/standing/talking for basically both of my shifts but you would think they would get their act together one of these years. I mean hell I've volunteered the past two years and the most work I've done was check bracelets at the access stands while watching snoop and phish.
Post by mrenglish4 on Jun 14, 2010 16:06:51 GMT -5
I almost forgot about half the vendors giving me the run around with the meal tokens. One said they could give my about half a portion (the sheet said any meal), another vendor listed as any meal said they could only give me rice but for a few dollars I could get chicken. I mean come on youre charging $10 for something that costs you probably $2 to make and you have to screw the volunteers for more money also?
My experience was mostly good. I was a trash talker, all of my shifts ended early and they tried to put me where I could see the shows I wanted. I do feel it could have been more organised, but I have to be forgiving because it's too short of a time period to work out the kinks when stuff goes wrong.
My big complaint was with the heat and being stationed out in the sun as a trash talker with repeated warning of "do not leave your station, wait for someone to relieve you or you may lose your deposit"... I was actually in a situation where I was a little stressed about getting enough water. On Sunday, I left my station and went back to the trash talker tent after 2 hours with no relief and baking in the sun. The Clean Vibes people were cool, "Take care of yourself", they said. After about 3 minutes in the shade, a WET person turned to me and said "okay"
Me: "Okay, what?" Her: "Well, how much time did they give you?" Me: "Ten minutes" Her: "Okay, well?"
Are you kidding me? That's my only complaint is that they needed to be better organised with the floaters and offer breaks more frequently with the heat. But I wasn't going to let them get in the way of me taking care of myself. Making sure people didn't put their compostable cup in the wrong can is not worth ending up in the medical tent.
Also, either let us through the back way or don't. I was so tired of getting up there and finding out that the way to Centeroo into the main stage area was sporadically closed again.
Other than that, I never had to wait too long for a shower, volunteer camping was secure, I used the taxi's to save energy, Clean Vibes people were super nice... it was better than last year, but not perfect. I had a good experience overall and would do it again.
