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Originally posted by Goose
So the choice for me came down to sticking to my guns and working by the book which meant sitting at home, or working under uncertain conditions. I chose and choose to work.
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That's your choice.
Fwiw, I agree completely with Ref18. In our area, we make the choice for our officials. We will
never assign our guys to games where they will knowingly be asked to bend safety rules. We supply each official with sheets listing the applicable safety rules of each ruleset they will be using. We inform all leagues and teams that we service, including rec leagues and rec teams, that safety rules will
not be waived for any of their games. Our members are also told that if someone asks them to bend or ignore one of those safety rules at a game, their answer will always be "no", and they are expected to walk out the door if that answer isn't acceptable. They are further told that if they want to make an individual decision to do that game anyway - hey, that's fine- but their membership in our association will be terminated if we find out about it. As an association, we are liable if our members ignore plainly written safety rules.
It works for us; it takes the decision off of the back of the individual official and lays it on our association. If someone doesn't like it when one of our officials refuses to ignore a safety rule, they just get told by that official to "call my assignor".
Personally, if I had to make an individual choice at a game, then I'd be outa there every time. I'm not taking any chance of having an injury to a player on my conscience that maybe was related to my deliberately ignoring a safety rule in favor of making a few bucks.