Scheduling woes

[JRutledge]

Originally posted by LarryS


I figured you would do the right thing. Which assignor have you worked for the longest...the "newer" assignors should understand you have multiple commitments to honor. If I was assigning games and was told by an official that he wanted to wait until he had gotten his schedule from someone with whom he had a longer relationship, I would respect that. I would have to tell him that I would wait as long as possible to schedule my games and he needed to understand I may not have much left when he knows his availability.

I may be old school, but I would much rather have someone be up-front with me even if they knew I might not like the answer than someone who intentionally created work for me for self-centered reasons. Good character carries a lot of weight with me and I have been known to bend over backwards for someone who demonstrates it in their dealings with me. You can never be too ethical.

The problem with that Larry is that not everyone will look at it that way. Assignors of conferences have a huge job at their disposal. If an assignor has 10 schools for example, they probably assign all levels. Freshman, Sophmore, JV, Varsity and sometimes both Boy's and Girl's Basketball. That might mean that an assignor has 100 or more officials in all levels working for them. Now this one official chooses to turn back 5 games for "better" games. Now imagine that 8 officials did the same thing. Now 8 X 5= 40 games. Now an assignor has to fill 40 games with new officials, experienced officials, "scratched" officials, big time game officials or officials that might not want to work at certain schools for some reason.

You are right honesty might be the best policy, but if one official is allowed to do this, it might affect what the other officials will do. You honestly think an assignor is going to be happy about this? Now we are not talking about officials that are moving up, we are talking about officials taking games at the very same level. I know I would not be happy and might think about that the next time I am assigning games to people that want to work my league.

Peace