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Had 2 sessions today both understaffed a bit from what's normal. People not sharing resources spoiled my day.
The first one covering a manger who usually has 2 instructors and 4+ volunteers, they want more volunteers when they get back from holiday so I've only 2 instructors and 1 volunteer, it's a bit selfish and a bit of just not being bothered to plan. Session went well but I had to offer less range of bikes as if it got busy with more riding we just couldn't supervise it enough.
I then had a crazy session with every single thing being badly planned as a colleague did it in a huff(I refused to put in hours for free when they get the pay for planning), asking them to do any risk assessment was a total affront too which has caused people to look up her expected file of risk assessment and find it lacking(will be fallout from this for months).
2 instructors(me+co), 2 volunteers, 2 interpreters.
5 trikes, 1 side by side, 2 go karts.
25 syrian speaking participants with varied learning difficulties.
Session went well, spent the first 20min telling people via improvised sign language to stop trying to get on bikes and fill in registers then an hour of people riding which it seemed the 20min of asserting authority carried over well. Very strange having to plan what I'd say 30sec before so it had time to go via translation.