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Originally Posted by BktBallRef
I've been working basketball in my local association since 1998.
Never once have I ever contacted a school to "confirm" an assignment.
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I don't confirm assignments with high schools, but I do check their web site to make sure my info matches. There have been a couple times I've had to call my assignor to make sure everything was kosher.
Also, the only time I've been in a car accident while traveling to a game, after leaving the accident and getting to the game site, it turned out there was a scheduling snafu and there was no game.
So yes, in a perfect world, we should trust no one fat fingered anything, but in reality things go wrong. And I sure would have preferred knowing ahead of time I didn't need to travel to that school instead of getting into an accident travelling somewhere I didn't need to be. My little $40 check for a not working a game didn't make up for the $200 deductible I had to pay.
BTW, I've worked in I.T. my entire adult life, I am intimately aware of how data is only good as the fingers that input it.