{"id":215,"date":"2012-09-18T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyoteblog.posterous.com\/magical-paychecks"},"modified":"2017-07-14T18:24:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T01:24:27","slug":"magical-paychecks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2012\/09\/magical-paychecks\/","title":{"rendered":"Magical paychecks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotecommunications.com\/me\/jayneonline.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">a lot of online communities<\/a>, most focused on nonprofits in some way. And recently, on one of them, someone posted this:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>I need to have some kind of porn blocker software on the computers at our office, since volunteers have access to the computers.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s right: while employees, because of their paychecks, aren&#8217;t at all inclined to do anything inappropriate on work computers, volunteers, who are unpaid, just can&#8217;t stay away from online pornography.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard people at nonprofit organizations talk about extensive training and supervision for volunteers regarding confidentiality, working with children and working with money, who then balk when I suggest exactly the same training and supervision is needed for paid employees.<\/p>\n<p>Paychecks are NOT magical! A paycheck doesn&#8217;t make someone more knowledgeable than a volunteer, more experienced, more trustworthy, more respectable nor safer.<\/p>\n<p>I love a paycheck as much as anyone! But it doesn&#8217;t give me super powers.<\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotecommunications.com\/volunteer\/\">working with volunteers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on a lot of online communities, most focused on nonprofits in some way. And recently, on one of them, someone posted this: I need to have some kind of porn blocker software on the computers at our office, since volunteers have access to the co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[106,365,366,378,426,465,466,529,530,531,532],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-volunteer-engagement","tag-confidentiality","tag-policies","tag-policy","tag-procedures","tag-safety","tag-supervision","tag-support","tag-volunteer","tag-volunteering","tag-volunteerism","tag-volunteers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fFJB-3t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3474,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/3474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}