Ok quick question and I apologize if this has been covered before:
So all joking aside, is there no single person in charge of volunteers and would therefore assign people (resources) based on need?
Just trying to get a feel for how this is structured.
There is a single person in charge of volunteers, but he's sloughing off his responsibilities to the "department managers." Typical mid-level management type move.
Your question is a good one, as I have asked it myself, thereby proving its worth. That's typical lower-level management type, take credit for others' ideas, stuff. In a perfect world, each area will have its share of volunteers so that no one person ends up working an unfair amount of time. Reality is likely to be that, at various points of time, we will need to solicit additional volunteers for any given area. This will be the responsibility of Flying Monkey.
We really should come up with a "code" when this occurs. For instance, at the summer camp where I volunteer as a counselor, Code Brown indicates either the need of a child to make his way to a toilet or the failure to do so. I am not coming up with any codes off the top of my head that would be suitably agitating for Flying Monkey, so I hope others can fill my creative void. "Code Weasel" is the best I got, but I really think this code needs to be used for those instances where Flying Monkey is not properly fulfilling his management duties. As such, feel free to call, "Code Weasel" whenever you are not experiencing a utopian volunteer environment. If your area is suffering from a lack of manpower, Code Weasel. If you have to go to the porta-potty, Code Weasel. If you are hot, Code Weasel. You all get the idea, I'm sure.
By the way, the registration tent will have free coffee for volunteers. I'd love to say it'll be Eric's coffee, but since he is now an official, full time FT employee, I cannot make that promise. He is now part of upper level management.
