It really bothers me that the nonprofit that I volunteer for is recruiting volunteers that they might not even need! When my boss successfully recruits a volunteer, he doesn't take down the ad on Volunteermatch. Instead, he leaves it up so that next time, someone else applies and I have to tell this person that the position's already filled! And some ads are very vaguely worded.
Another thing that's bothering me: do we have to accept every volunteer that applies? Someone said they will never reject a volunteer. I think that's what my boss is doing.
There is a volunteer who applied to become a journalist/reporter, so we had to ad lib her role. I don't know why we even need a journalist/reporter, but if I reject the volunteer I will look bad in front of my boss, who will think I'm being lazy or something. My boss had handed this volunteer to me for processing, and I'm just improvising a lot of stuff.
I also improvise roles and duties for other volunteers such as the ones on the website team. If I don't come up with things for them to do, they would have nothing to do which means I will have to let them go. I am too nice to reject people. In real life, if I were CEO of a company, I would probably be too afraid of firing people and therefore, make the company bankrupt. My boss is also a "nice guy" who's afraid of rejecting people. He makes a good professor, but probably a terrible CEO if he were to run a real company.
