Tim K Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 (edited) 5 hours ago, fsthnds said: WGI is mandating training for ALL their employees, judges, show staff, and volunteers. I know a few DCI staff that DEFINETLY need training just from observing their behavior at shows! Corp members may be more comfortable if reporting was to someone outside of the corps inner circle. These "other DCI staff" people need to be trained on how to handle the issues if and when informed. If we were discussing this in person, we’d probably be on the same page, but My point is we need to be specific regarding volunteers. In the training by the Boy Scouts, Boys and Girls Clubs, Campfire, and the Virtus training which is used by many religious organizations, it is always driven home you have specific job descriptions or duties/responsibilities and have specific training for each area. “Everyone” becomes too ambiguous and that’s how people slip through the cracks. Anyone who has contact with the marching members, and I would include in this area college age interns and youth volunteers, should be trained, no question. All purpose volunteers should be eliminated. Specific duties makes it easier to spot perpetrators. Speaking of specific, show volunteers is very broad. There may be volunteer staff that have contact with the corps, especially at major shows. Train them by all means, but volunteers also include people collecting and scanning tickets, selling programs and 50/50 raffle tickets, and staffing concession stands. They are probably not traveling with the corps and have no contact with the corps. Regarding judges, if they are acting inappropriately, they need to be weeded out. All the training in the world will not change them. Edited January 17, 2022 by Tim K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Tuma Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 1 hour ago, JimF-LowBari said: The FB page just went off the rails. Scans of a 4 page rant that goes way past “difference of opinion “. Cesspool got deeper. I saw there’s also a private Facebook group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaitForIt Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 30 minutes ago, Brian Tuma said: I saw there’s also a private Facebook group. These people are extremely sick and twisted. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimF-LowBari Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 (edited) 10 minutes ago, WaitForIt said: These people are extremely sick and twisted. Few days ago (before announcement to suspend operations) I made a joke about they are running out of feet to shoot. Take on shooting yourself in the foot with stupidity. No longer a joke. Wonder if anyone is even looking at what is going on in the group page. Other groups I’m on will close comments or remove the whole thread before things get half this bad. Edited January 18, 2022 by JimF-LowBari Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terri Schehr Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 2 hours ago, Tim K said: I wouldn’t take too much of what I read on Spirit’s FB page all that seriously unless you know the person commenting. One person going by the name John Brown is a fake profile. I don’t normally cyberstalk but he chewed me out early on for saying Spirit needed to take a year off. I took a quick peek. No profile picture, no posts, no biographical information. And one that you’ll love is a person who remembered Spirit in the 60’s, yes the 60’s, amazing for a corps that first competed in 1977, which I’m sure you remember well since I believe you were still marching with Guardsmen and may have wondered about the new upstarts everyone was talking about. Many of Spirit’s supporters as well as those supporting the accuser are actually doing more harm with a good number of posts I have seen and my guess is if you go to CNN, MSNBC, or Fox News, the same folks are spewing about Covid, climate change, politics, etc., and just like their posts on the drum corps sites, they have no idea of what they are saying. Spirit could remove the comments. They own the page. But since they’re leaving them up…🤷♀️ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IllianaLancerContra Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 18 minutes ago, Terri Schehr said: Spirit could remove the comments. They own the page. But since they’re leaving them up…🤷♀️ IIRC a few days ago they were blocking the victim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaitForIt Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 1 minute ago, IllianaLancerContra said: IIRC a few days ago they were blocking the victim Rumor has it, the media team was removed as admins and BOD and Executive Dir may have full control now. None of this has been confirmed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cixelsyd Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 1 minute ago, IllianaLancerContra said: IIRC a few days ago they were blocking the victim Now they are letting her in, so that they can continue the abuse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
year1buick Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 1 hour ago, Brian Tuma said: I saw there’s also a private Facebook group. Is there a way to report it to FB or do only members even have the ability to see it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Tuma Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 2 minutes ago, year1buick said: Is there a way to report it to FB or do only members even have the ability to see it? https://www.facebook.com/groups/2210231073/?ref=share It doesn’t look like there’s been much activity on it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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