Should We Get Paid?

[jTheUmp]

Originally Posted by umpire99

The problem is that if I was temporarily insane, then
I must be permanantly insane.

No disagreement here... you must be permanently insane.

Don't you guys realize that this is a JV GAME. Who cares that there is not a winner.

I don't care who wins ANY game that I officiate, but that doesn't mean that I don't stay around until the game is over and a winner has been determined (with the exception of a few "no extra innings/overtime" rec leagues that I work). Varsity, JV, 9th grade, 7th grade, 11U, whatever.

We were on our way to a smooth game, when the fifth inning seemed to take forever and then they expect us to stay to watch a bunch of non-skilled kids play extra innings.

You're not there to watch the kids play extra innings, you're there to apply/enforce the rules fairly and evenly. And what difference does the skill level make? In most cases the highly skilled varsity player (or not, I've seen some very unskilled varsity games) was once an unskilled JV player.

I'm not doing it. And I'm going to get my money one way or another.

And, if you have that attitude about it, you're probably going to tumble to the very bottom of your assigner's list, and stay there for a LONG time.

[APG]

The only way you should get paid is if it's the accepted practice by all in your area that no extra innings/overtimes are played in sub-varsity contests...and I'd guess it isn't, because that kind of policy would have been known beforehand by the coaches and they wouldn't have acted so surprised when you walked from the game.

Besides that, I think your attitude towards the sub-varsity game is all kinds of wrong.