Tuesday, August 17, 2010

FAN: Thankless Volunteer Work

So if you remember from last year, I coach my daughter's volleyball team. I was
asked by our Athletic Director to send out an email to get a hard 'Yes' or 'No'
for each player about asthma. Apparently one of the other sports had an incident
and a new rule was put in place that we needed to make parents aware of. Our
practice schedule is confusing because so many teams need gym time. We don't
have set nights or times. I mentioned that in my welcome to the team email. Our
AD also emailed me our practice schedule through September 9th.


If I happen to email the team on another subject, I'll throw a reminder at the
bottom about the upcoming practice. I emailed the team yesterday about asthma
and I tagged at the bottom 'REMINDER - Practice Tonight 6-7:30'.

This is an email I received in my inbox:

"Hi Coach. As I had previously asked can you give me alittle notice prior to vb
practice. I have two babies at home. Is practice a set night? I
apologize SNOWFLAKE missed again however I got the email the day of....I don't
want her missing anymore because of our communication. She is getting upset that
she has missed two...please let me know how we can expedite this. Email or
calling is fine.

MOTHER SNOWFLAKE"

Um, well, first off - you missed THREE practices so far. Second, I emailed the
complete schedule last Thursday and your name is first in the email list. Short
of calling your unorganized ass an hour prior to practice, I don't know what
else I can do. Stop having babies and start paying attention to your 11 year
old.


-Coach Fan XoXo

PS - If you ever cop an attitude with me again without checking your facts, your
kid will be running laps in your honor at the first practice you can actually
get her to.

3 comments:

still a cowbell said...

Now, now - don't take it out on the kid because the mom is a flake. Find out if the kid has an e-mail that you can send it to instead since the mom doesn't understand the concept of responsibility.

bluzdude said...

Where's the kid in all this? When I used to have practices, there was no email, texts, or cells. Coach gave us a paper with times and places, and we showed up.

Hell, if practice was at 4:30, I was sitting downstairs in my uniform at 3.

Not that Mom is a prize here... But between the two of them, someone should have been able to figure it out.

Anonymous said...

have your daughter text the girl....u dont want 2b emailing the daughter..........