Hello, On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 08:41am +01, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Apparently the problem isn't that no help is needed but that nobody has time > to train the new help, citing possible burn-out trying to get answers from the > existing members and leaving in disappointment, if not disgust. (My > interpretation …) > > While that's a valid concern, it's a problem every manager of an overworked > team in the world has faced, volunteer or not. > > There are (of course) multiple ways to approach this issue. The point (and I > assume the reason Andreas basically ignored the team's rejection of new > members) is that "do nothing until somebody has time to train new people" is > among the worst possible approaches: experience tells us that the most likely > outcome is "another team members quits". You can't just throw people at a team of volunteers who are busy doing other things and say "train them". Nobody wins, there, and the candidates won't come back at a time when those volunteers *do* have the time to do the training. -- Sean Whitton
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