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the problem with volunteers is that, however many good people you get, you will will end up with a large number of co-erced "volunteers" who end up being resentful and counter-productive.  They can not only undermine the volunteer effort, but set back progress considerably if they're bloody minded enough.

So volunteering ends up being difficult. You can't pay more than basic cos you end up with people who just take the money and skive. Neither can you make it coercion for the reason above. So, you end up with asking what the motivation would be, because those people with the get up and go to volunteer for no extra money are actually those hwo'll probvably get themselves a job quickly anyway.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Jan 7th, 2009 at 02:44:37 PM EST
... over there in the UK, cause here in Ohio it simply is not the case at the moment that:
those people with the get up and go to volunteer for no extra money are actually those who'll probvably get themselves a job quickly anyway.

Not unless your definition of "quickly" stretches into multiple quarters.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Wed Jan 7th, 2009 at 11:19:31 PM EST
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