[Adam]

Originally Posted by frezer11

That's fair, but I also don't know if the OPer was trying to make a change in the officiating world, or just wanting to be done. Again without knowing the full story, I would lean toward finishing out what I had committed to, and being done from there.

We're stretched pretty thin around here right now, so if I were to do this, I can see the games not getting filled, which I don't care about the problem this might create for an assigner who isn't going to back me up, but I would care about my reputation with fellow officials, who I might be hanging out to dry. Now if there were plenty of officials that could fill in? Then I think it depends on just how bad things were.

If the assigner is telling me to get a thicker skin, I'm going to assume he thinks he can get officials willing to accommodate. If he can't, he should have been more willing to show the league some backbone.