RNC volunteers bogged down by bureaucracy?

The Republican National Convention is learning that good, free labor is hard to find. Some 6,000 volunteers shy of their goal of 10,000, the RNC is discovering that although there may be a lot of people willing to help out at the event, they may not be so willing to fill out the application.

According to a volunteer who writes on Minneapolis Metblogs, the process takes two applications — and the second ap takes large amounts of time to complete.

“I forwarded you the link to submit the new application,” she tells me, “but you should know it took me like 20 minutes.”

Great. Super. I’m still rolling my eyes. I understand background checks and security clearance are important, but seriously — 20 minutes? No wonder they’re shy volunteers. Anyone in Generation X or Y probably won’t make it past the 3-4 minute mark.

Greg gives full details of the ap to end all aps, which includes cumbersome passwords, detailed autobiographies and extensive ratings on preferred tasks in a blog post that likely is not much shorter than the application itself.