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Originally Posted by just another ref
It looks stupid to show up to officiate wearing an official's uniform.
O K
Actually, pretty much anyone can walk off the street and call the game. Look at, well, yourself, for example.  If you feel that you need to be dressed a certain way to make a certain impression, I suggest you continue to do so. I am glad not to be in an area with such restrictions, whether real or imagined. |
Based on what I have read here, it is much more than “my” area. It appears that
professionalism is expected in a lot of areas.
If you worked more than JV schedule, you might see that the same things are required where you live too. I work college too (and officials come from multiple states and multiple jurisdictions) and it is expected throughout the places I have been or have never been to wear cloths that shows you are professional. And a big part of that professionalism is what you display before and after the game, in what you wear and how you behave. You are not just doing a game; you are doing an event where many people have a personal interest in the outcome. Just like people squabble over working games close to home, people expect similar things as to how you present yourself in and around that contest.
If I go to a job interview (of any kind), I might be qualified for the job, but I am not going to show up in jeans and a T-shirt. I do not know about you, but I do not see many people going for jobs in jeans and a T-shirt or their uniform of another job. Even when the job involves hands-on element to it, the smart people wear a suit which is not what I or many people expect from an official.
Not only was that the way I was raised, it is the professions I have been involved in and out of officiating.
I often tell people it is not always what you do on the court that gets you games, it is often the things you do not do that play a bigger role.
Peace