I was just trying to give them free labor!!

[NoahsMommy]

Wow! I am utterly amazed that this happens so often. People are just plain stupid....I would think that if someone wanted to offer their help and they were serious, they would be willing to spare five minutes of their time. Wow...I need to go read the thread where Naomi got almost $2000 from strangers again...

Wolfchan,
I'm sorry you feel that way.... She didn't ask me why I wanted to volunteer, that would be on the application.

[bluekat]

Something like that happened to me too. I want to volunteer at some shelters during summer vacation, so I always try to find shelters on the Internet where I could work at. I emailed some, and all of them would reply very nicely and give me a long reply, explaining how they're happy how I'm so young and I love animals, and they like how I would want to volunteer and said maybe when I get older I'll work there. and they also told me a lot of things, like even if I'm only 13, I could volunteer too, but just not directly with animals. So all the shelters tell me that, and are really nice to me. One even said that even though I'm too young, I could foster animals, and told me all this information.

But only one got me kind of mad. I emailed them a long email, and told them that I am only 13, and if I could volunteer or anything. Their reply was just one sentence: You're too young, get back to us when you're at least 16.
I don't know how you guys would react to that, but I got kind of upset. Some other shelters said that I can't volunteer because I'm too young, but their reply was longer and much nicer.

[captain]

Bluekat - to that shelter that gave you the ONE LINE reply - STUFF 'EM!!!

Whilst you may be young, I feel they should foster and nurture your interest ..... just my humble opinion - Even if you are "only" 13 ....... !
At least the other replies were nice and caring ..

[carole]

It never ceases to amaze me, that some people ever get the jobs they have, they either lack personality, kindness, or a number of things, its like sometimes when you go to the doctor, really worried about something and you get a crabby receptionist or nurse, or someone with no personality if you know what i mean. I just take the time to complain these days, because jobs are short, and these people should not be doing these types of jobs.

[kittens]

maybe she had a wig on and it was too tight? maybe she has not had her daily m&m's and shes a grouch?
or maybe she has different calendar than the rest of us and it is be a bitch day??

[kittens]

same thing at the shelter where I got 2 of my cats, pulled up, got out and you would have thought we were panhandling, we were ignored and got dirty looks from the volunterers...I was there to get a kitten and found 2, its not my fault she had to carry buckets around, or whatever she was doing. we walked up and they were all sitting a t a outside table and were not about to say a word if we hadn't first! the impression we got from the first second was we were not wanted there...

[kittens]

and, Carole you are right, in stores, HOW do they get the job? I was in office max the other day, the cashier had no personality, and just stared the other way most of the time, like we were lepers or something, couldn't even look at us?