Volunteer Scheduling Keywords

When scheduling and signing in/out volunteers, you will hear lots of different words for what are basically all the same things. The biggest confusion seems to arise in the Build Program areas. Most scheduling mistakes happen when volunteers or schedulers use different words for the same things, or the same words for different things. After a while everyone gets the hang of the vocabulary, but in order to ease the learning process, I've created this "dictionary" for use during training by staff and interns at the Volunteer and Donation desks.

ADOPTION TASKS NAMES (official)

Receiving Receiving (seated tasks) Recycling Bench Recycling Table Printerland

ADOPTION TASKS NAMES (codewords) Taking donations Right there (points to Receiving) Mice testing Speaker Testing Keyboard Testing Sitting

Where you take computers apart In the warehouse Recycling

Taking keyboards/harddrives/other small piece of tech apart In the warehouse Recycling

Printers In the Warehouse Recycling Taking printers apart

BUILD TASK NAMES (official) Hardware ID System Evaluation Build (Assembly)

BUILD TASK NAMES (codewords) Prebuild Build The class

Taking systems apart Build Eval

QC Assembly Build