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A few years ago the association I was with had a contract to work a bunch of youth tournaments. Apparently the tourney directors became a little disenchanted with the frequency of ejections, especially by the more inexperienced umpires, and made their feelings known to my assignor. Fearing he may lose the contract, the assignor informed us before the start of a tournament that ejections were no longer allowed. This and other attempts to brownnose the TD's have resulted in 80% of the "quality" umpires leaving the association recently, myself included.
Now the assignor is in serious jeopardy because he can't provide quality officials for these tournaments, because nobody wants to work for him anymore. He put his business (he ran the umpire association for his own personal gain) ahead of umpire philosophy and it will cost him dearly. He tried to save a few extra bucks by bringing in cheaper umpires and not providing adequate training.
A business can't do a very good job of keeping customers happy if its employees aren't happy.
Dennis Donnelly
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