Questions tagged [volunteering]
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Dealing with small crimes as a volunteer
Every now and then I volunteer for an association, organizing big role play events in my country (by big I mean several days with between several hundred people, so nothing at the national scale, but big enough nonetheless).
There I act as one of…
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How can I decline or redirect a religiously-objectionable community-service project without alienating people?
My large, international employer supports employees volunteering in our local communities, even allowing us to spend a certain amount of work time on such projects. My local office of about a dozen people was recently talking about doing something…
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How to communicate to an Open Source Project that I want more responsibility after being rebuffed every time I try to help?
I mostly work alone on my own programming projects as a hobby, but often come up with projects that are far too big to work on myself, so a few months ago I started searching for open source projects on GitHub that matched my interests and skill…
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Asking for fees for an assumed free service
During my university years, I had designed and developed my department website. It's been many years since I graduated, however, the office IT staff still contacts me if something goes wrong. This happens because the website was made using a web…
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How can I reject volunteers that aren't a great fit for the job?
I am involved with a local SF con, and I will be running the Info Desk, which has been defunct for a few years. (Volunteer Desk guy would try to handle questions while doing everything else he did, and Info Desk was just a place where programs and…
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Asking people to step up in a volunteer organization
Something I've noticed in just about every organization that I've been a part of is the old adage:
In any organization 10% of the people do 90% of the work.
This seems particularly true in volunteer organizations, where people aren't being paid,…
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How to communicate in a training to ensure small details done?
I've been asked to train "customer service" in a local charity group. I've never met the trainees, and I only know one or two people there.
One of the procedure includes small details that I feel will help them to increase "customer" satisfaction.…
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How to Approach Platonic Crush?
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I have a platonic crush on a person I first met through a group interview for voluntary work at an organisation. In the interview, I found out their name and after knowing a little more about them through their answers to the panel's…
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Bad work results from voluntary co-worker
I am currently working on a voluntary translation project for a game. We're working in a team of ~5 people per language (3 active translators in our case) in a Smartcat project. However, one of the translators (also, the one that does most of the…
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How to communicate that offered reward is not quite fair
My background:
I (18 year old guy) am currently studying computer science in a combined study program (between the semesters I work at a company that in turn pays me salary and my college fees). I really like to help people out with writing programs…
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