Tales from the Olympic Helpdesk: Filler
(This post is a part of my series on volunteering at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. If you’re new here, feel free to start at the beginning)
Day 2 of my gauntlet (and my fourth shift in total) wasn’t too exciting, I spent the morning in BC Place setting up printers and testing network connections. Pretty boring stuff, really, but I had a good chat with Sully, the assistant Venue Technology Manager. He’s been working 7 days a week, like so many of the paid staff at both venues – crazy stuff.
Before I knew it, lunch! Even though the lunches almost always consisted of a warm soup with a bun, granola bar, packaged sandwich, fruit, and juice, there was a fair amount of variety. I believe this day was tomato soup with a vegetarian wrap – tasty!
Most lunches were variation on this theme.
In the afternoon, I got to run the help desk for an hour or two while all the higher-ups were in a meeting. I was dispatching printer and computer technicians, closing tickets, phoning clients, manning two radios, and generally doing the most interesting work of my volunteer experience.
I love the volunteer coats - all of this fits in my pockets!
That’s pretty much it for Thursday. Not an extremely interesting day, but I had to finish it so I could talk about the rest of my week 
