Medical School Costs A ****load Of Money ...
 

Hey! My daughter's in medical school. Four years, at $50,000.00 per year, all paid for with student loans. By the time she ready to practice after her residency, (80 hour workweeks) she deserves a ****load of money.

Nice. When is that one?

No, I don't wish we would get paid, because that pay would come with some strings.

Monday 2/7 3pm

You really are a rookie, aren't you?

It has nothing to do with luck. We all have games that are cancelled.

You make up for it when you get a call for a fill-in.

No, absolutely not.

If you leave home on your way to a game and they cancel, yes, you should receive half fee.

If you arrive at the school and they have to cancel after you arrive, you should receive half game fee.

If you arrive at the school and find they cancelled but didn't call you, you should be paid the full fee.

If you start the game and it has to be cancelled, you should be paid the full fee.

But if they cancel and inform you properly, you're entitled to zero compensation.

Dude, it's their money.

Besides that, they lose money too. Gate and concessions.

You really need to let it go. It's gonna happen, to all of us.

This is a full game fee in my world. If this was a half fee, baseball teams would let the umpires show up and then cancel, shrug, and pay us $30.

we get $45 thanks to a $5 increase this year.

The items I listed are NCHSAA policy.

If we show up for a football game, take the fieldm and then a breaker blows on the electrical panel that controls the stadium lights, we get half fee. If we've kicked off, we get full fee.

Why would they do this? Why would they schedule you, just to let you show up, not play and pay you $30?

ADs who don't want to make a decision. Even now, when we get a full fee, we've arrived knowing conditions aren't going to let us play.

If you think losing $200 is the worst luck ever, you've led a pretty sheltered and painfree life. (Maybe becasue your you're very, very young)

I wish the worst loss I had over something was just $200.

Ahem....
 

Here in NVA/DC (home to exceptional weathermen) we're getting very chilly RAIN. All schools closed and night activities cancelled.

I lost two (FB/JVB). :(

Well, that's just stupid. If I know we aren't going to play, I'm sure gonna call and cancel so I don't have to pay you.

$200 is a lot to me right now. I just turned 26 last week, I can't get a damn job because of this economy the way it is, and I got a bunch of credit card bills and student loans to pay. I'm not saying I'm in this job just for the money, but it does help to make money when you do a service. I need this money.

The nature of the "job" is while you make decent money for your time, there is inherent risk that you'll have this happen.

Personally, I do think that you should get compensated SOMETHING for the lost revenue opportunity. As an independent contractor, you COULD have found a revenue opportunity SOMEWHERE ELSE with reasonable lead time. ESPECIALLY since the game was canceled for non-weather-related reasons very late in the going.

At the same time, a contract is created between you, the independent contractor, and the school. In some cases, there very well may be language that includes getting paid/partially paid under certain circumstances. We typically get paid for a soccer game (even if the game gets canceled before kickoff, if we showed up for the game) in some leagues. BUT, it is dependent upon the agreement that the league/school has in these cases.

Exactly.

Scuba_ref,
ONE of the reasons VIRTUALLY ALL of us officiate is the money. If you argue with this point, my question is, "Do you always RETURN your game fee after the game is over?" If the answer is, "No." Then ONE of the reasons you officiate is to put some money in your pocket.

No, we don't, but perhaps, we should. This is ONE reason why healthcare costs are as high as they are -- no-shows and no-pays....