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.

Task Name Official	Task name Unofficial
Adoption Tasks Receiving Receiving (seated tasks) Recycling Bench Recycling Table Printerland	Adoption Names 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 pieces of tech apart In the warehouse Recycling Printers In the Warehouse Recycling Taking printers apart
Build Tasks Hardware ID System Evaluation Build (Assembly)	Build Names Prebuild Build The class Taking systems apart Build Eval QC Assembly Build