So I have been swimming with a masters team since august and have since then paid my usms membership fee at the end of October to be able to swim in a meet we recently had. I haven't recieved my usms card in the mail yet. In two weeks and am going back home from school for a month but need to swim in a structured program and am gonna find the masters team at home and wanted to know if I could still swim with them without my membership card, is there a way to prove my membership without it?
I am not sure exactly how "why doesn't USMS give me a luggage tag" turned into "I am asking the hard questions."
The reason people seem to think that you trivialize volunteers or don't appreciate what we do, Paul, is that it is pretty much exactly how it sounds.
"Why doesn't USMS give me a luggage tag? USAS does. It would be SO EASY. PS: You suck." (Obviously I am joking a little here. But only a little.)
I have no business experience, you are right, and you have a good point about fitness instructors etc. But I do not think the answer is to add to the burden of the most overworked LMSC members, the Registrars.
Comments shouted out from the peanut gallery can be helpful, but only up to a point. The reason people get on you to volunteer is that it seems very important to you and, as you point out, you have a lot of experience to offer. (I realize that working as a coach helps "the cause" a lot too, so it isn't that I think you are a layabout.)
Chris I'm not even sure how to respond...you seem to have completely missed the point I'm making about brand building, loyalty, membeship growth, etc. and are stuck on luggage tags, something I used to point out how poorly this "buisness" has been at the national level on even the most basic of brand building oppurtunities.
As a paying member of an organization I think I not only have the right but the obligation to make suggestions on how the buisness is being run...and for the record no other buisness that I support finacially ever tells me to come out of the "peanut gallery" and volunteer if I don't think they are doing a good enough job...and you seem to forget I did volunteer and participate on 2 committee's for a couple of years as well as work very hard here in AZ to build membership so drop the us vs. you stuff will ya?
I am not sure exactly how "why doesn't USMS give me a luggage tag" turned into "I am asking the hard questions."
The reason people seem to think that you trivialize volunteers or don't appreciate what we do, Paul, is that it is pretty much exactly how it sounds.
"Why doesn't USMS give me a luggage tag? USAS does. It would be SO EASY. PS: You suck." (Obviously I am joking a little here. But only a little.)
I have no business experience, you are right, and you have a good point about fitness instructors etc. But I do not think the answer is to add to the burden of the most overworked LMSC members, the Registrars.
Comments shouted out from the peanut gallery can be helpful, but only up to a point. The reason people get on you to volunteer is that it seems very important to you and, as you point out, you have a lot of experience to offer. (I realize that working as a coach helps "the cause" a lot too, so it isn't that I think you are a layabout.)
Chris I'm not even sure how to respond...you seem to have completely missed the point I'm making about brand building, loyalty, membeship growth, etc. and are stuck on luggage tags, something I used to point out how poorly this "buisness" has been at the national level on even the most basic of brand building oppurtunities.
As a paying member of an organization I think I not only have the right but the obligation to make suggestions on how the buisness is being run...and for the record no other buisness that I support finacially ever tells me to come out of the "peanut gallery" and volunteer if I don't think they are doing a good enough job...and you seem to forget I did volunteer and participate on 2 committee's for a couple of years as well as work very hard here in AZ to build membership so drop the us vs. you stuff will ya?
