Rain-outs and reschedules

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by eagle_12

Just wanted to run a situation by the board that happened to me this weekend in which I don't think was handled approprietly by my assignor and in which I lost out on $45 and my partner $70.

My original schedule was Sr. legion tourny DH friday night, 3 inning continuation and full 7 adult league game on Saturday in the early evening.

My Friday games were washed out due to rain and rescheduled for the next morning. These were the opening games of the tournament. My assignor removed me from these Sr. Legion games because the following day, I had 1.5games in the evening.


My arguement and beef comes from the fact that Friday night Team A was playing Team B (Game #1) and Team C vs. Team D (Game #2) and that they have to play these games in this order because of the league tourny, and therefore, because its would be the same game, it still is rightfully mine. My arguement is that even though I had the games in the evening on Saturday, all 4 games (orginal two from Fri, and the 2 adult games) are my right to work and I should be able to choose which ones I work.

My assignor said that I don't get the Sr. Legion games, the rescheduled ones, becuase he already assigned two other umpires to work games on the next morning at the times that the Friday games were being made up. (games starting at 10a and noon)

My arguement to that was they were assigned to games not times and they should be moved to the later games they were originally assigned to (Game #5 and #6). In essence, each crew is bumped later just like the bracket.

This is an example of the very reason I stay away from these leagues completely during the summer for the very reason you just stated. I got tired of the movement and rescheduling and sometimes having to wait for what someone was going to do assign me all because it rained.

Originally Posted by eagle_12

Like I said earlier, this ended up costing me $45, and it shouldn't be about the money, but right now I'm working PT in my real job and looking to move, so every little bit helps.

Thoughts?

You have a right to make an issue of this. Or decide that this league or how you work is different. I would be upset to if I had to spend money to work game and not work a game. And yes it is OK to complain about that as these are hard times and losing money to work a game should not be something you have to go through. That being said, that is why I have made decisions to not work these leagues because it was costing me more money than it was worth.

Peace

[Rich]

There are no hard and fast rules for how these things are handled. It's a local issue.

All I know is that since I don't work for one assignor, my willingness to take games from anyone doing scheduling depends on how they handle situations like this. For example, if I drive to a field, I expect to get full pay for a game regardless of whether (1) the field is not playable or (2) the weather's poor and they push the decision off until we're there to "help" them with it or (3) the teams simply don't show up and they forgot to cancel the umpiring.

In many places there are a shortage of people willing to work in the summer, so the assignors better treat their people well.