I just did a cash game tonight. The fee for each official is $22. So for two it should be $44.

Before the game the coach hands me a bag of cash that contains $54. He says that should cover it, he just got it from the manager.


What do you do?? :cool:

You ask him what the extra $10 is for -- you want to know ahead of time what you're expected to deliver and this isn't the amount you bargained for.

Shouldn't be a question
 

I think you know the answer to this already....take the $10 and buy a six pack of Pepsi .
Seriously - The fact that you are asking the question means that you know the right thing to do .Let the guy know that there is $10 extra dollars in there and ask that he return it to the manager and the next time you see the manager ask him if he got back the extra $10 that was left in the bag....As you know you can never trust those coaches:)

Reminds me of an old joke.

A man of a particular ethnic persuasion was having a disussion with his young son concerning ethics. The son asked him what is meant by the term "moral dilemma". The father answered as follows:

"Abie my son, you know that your Uncle Herbie and I are partners in a clothing store on the lower east side?"

"Yes Pappa, a fine store it is!" replied the son.

"Well son, here's an example of a moral dilemma. Imagine a rich shiksah from the upper east side comes into our store and buys a hat for her husband."

"OK Pappa."

"Now imagine the hat costs $40."

"Oh pappa, that is an expensive hat!"

"Yes Abie, it is. Now imagine the woman pays with two twenty dollar bills and leaves with her purchase."

"Oh Pappa, I do hope she comes again!!"

"Yes my son. Now Abie, imagine that as you put the money in the cash register you notice that there's a $100 bill stuck between the twenties."

"Oi gevald Pappa, how could that be??!"

"Yes my son, it is terrible. And now here's the dilemma: Do you tell your Uncle Herbie about the extra 100?"

You call the game fairly as you would any other game. ;)

The fact that he handed you a bag of cash concerns me a bit more than the extra ten bucks. Were these all small, unmarked bills?

I was thinking jingle, jingle, jingle...

44 bucks? Must be a pretty small bag....

You tell him he must have mis-counted, and you give him the $10 back.

Take the money and do what I normally would do. Call the game and go home.

Peace

I don't understand why you wouldn't give the extra $10 back. :confused:

It's hardly a huge moral dilemma, and obviously not an attempt to bribe or anything like that (if it is, it's a pathetic attempt at bribery :D). Someone obviously just counted the cash wrong. What's the big deal about giving back the extra fin?

I'm thinking if you fess up, some good karma will be headed your way later on :)

It's simple math really, which is worth more? $10 or your integrity?

Simple--no thought--give back $10.00

If you give back the extra fin, what do you do with the other $5? ;)

Do you think it could be possible that you were being tested?

"Let's see how trustworthy this guy really is and throw an extra $10. in his pay and see if he's honest".

If you keep it, just don't get mad if you lose some $ in the near future. Like others have said; integrity and karma are more important to me. Who knows, they might have said that they changed their rate and the $ is yours, then you would have this hanging over you.

Good ole' honest Abe from Illinois. :(

I've thought a lot of things about you. But I never thought that you were dishonest. Guess I was wrong.

WTH is a shiksah?

You need to get out more!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by BktBallRef
[B]Yiddish word for a non-Jewish woman, somewhat less than complementary, sometimes spelled shiksa.

I suspect he meant:

shik·sa
n. Offensive
Used as a disparaging term for a non-Jewish girl or woman.

If the Lord is going to send me to Hell for being dishonest, it is going to be for a lot more than $10. I'd give it back. Now if the winning lottery ticket was inside ...

He applied the conversion rate and it came out 5 ;)

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dan_ref
[B]Hmmmmmmm......

Tsk,tsk,tsk......

I certainly can't be very compl<font color = red>i</font>mentary of your spelling skills.

Where's Mr. Spelling/Grammar/Dic(tion)head Person when you need him?

NOTE: Edited to fix a spelling error. :D

[Edited by Jurassic Referee on Apr 19th, 2005 at 11:04 AM]

Come on now Tony - you know it's just that things are different in Chicago than they are anywhere else...it's a regional thing!

Unless there is a contract, I do not look at my money. If you think it is dishonest, so what.

Peace

If you really think this then why reply? If you want us to believe that you do not look at the money then what would you do when you got home and found the error?

Another old joke:

Man to woman: "My lady, would you agree to sleep with me for a million dollars?"

Woman: "Why, yes, I believe I would."

Man: "Would you agree to sleep with me for five dollars?"

Woman (indignantly): "What kind of woman do you think I am?!?!"

Man: "I thought we'd already established that, and are now merely haggling over the price!"

Probably out in the middle of the Carribean somewhere goofing off.

That's where I thought the other joke was going. ^

Have you ever heard of the phrase "because I can?"

There is nothing anyone is going to do but run their mouth.

Peace

Oh yes, that old attitude of "it's not dishonest if nobody finds out about it." Consider the source, no surprise.

Z

Sorry but there aren't a whole lot of Jewish haberdashery shops where I live. In fact, there aren't a lot of Jewish folk either.

Case in point...

JRut casts his line and all the fish bite...

You really know how to hurt a person, don't you.

I saw a robin today.

The little, old Jewish man was on his death bed. While suffering the agonies of his impending demise, he suddenly smelled the aroma of his very all-time favorite, special cookies- marzipan dreidel cookies. Gathering his little remaining strength, the old man lifted himself from the bed and fell out on the floor. He then crawled slowly over to the door and made his way through it. With even greater effort, he crawled to the head of the stairs, grasped the railing with both hands, and slowly--very sloooooowly- step by step--made his way down the stairs. At the bottom, following the delicious scent of his favorite cookies, he crawled over to the kitchen door, managed somehow to reach up with almost the last of his strength and turn the door knob, and then crawled slowly through the open door into the kitchen. Were it not for the pain wracking his body, he now would have thought himself already in heaven- for there, laid out upon waxed paper on the kitchen table were literally hundreds of still steaming, fresh from the oven, marzipan dreidel cookies. Was this truly heaven, or was this one final act of heroic love from his devoted wife of 63 years, seeing that he would leave this life a happy man? Mustering one great final effort, he threw himself towards the table, landing in a crumpled heap just beside it. With the last of his strength, he reached up with an aged, withering and shaking hand towards a cookie at the side of the table, and......
His wife smacked his hand with a spatula. "Back off" she said. "Those cookies are for the funeral".


Thought I'd throw that one in. This thread is down the dumper anyway.

So, what happens if when he finally is able to reach up to grab one cookie, and when he brings his hand back, he finds he has two? Does he keep the extra cookie?

Nah, the Cookie Monster cuts his hand off with a carving knife. That'll teach the old sh*t to be greedy.

:D

No brainer....

Inform admin that there was EXTRA $10 included in the fees you received and give the $10 back!

JMHO

wl

I guess the real question is this: Did you keep the $10 or give it back like you should have?

Rut says he wouldn't look in the bag so he wouldn't know how much is in there. What if after the game, he looks and it's $10 short. According to his logic, he would just accept that and go home.

Yeah, suuuuuuuuuure.

That has happen to me, and I did not around chasing the money.

Peace

"Excuse me, coach, there's only $10 extra in here. We usually charge $50 to let the home team win."

I always ask the coaches before the game if they want to buy "foul insurance".