What are your pet peeves about other officials?

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by rockyroad

Officials who jump all over someone because they think the other guy is wrong without making any attempt to help their fellow official understand or get better.

Had one of these in a JuCo game once. He did it at halftime. What particularly peeved me about it was that:

1. He wasn't the crew chief
2. When the crew chief asked what we had this guy insisted on going last, after the crew chief
3. We had an observer sitting with us

There were 3 plays he was upset about but instead of discussing them he just started ranting. First play I would have readily admitted I was wrong about if he had asked me (a whistle out my primary and not a game-saver). 2nd was on a fast break where he was C and I was Lead and A1, coming from C's area to the basket, took a solid shot to the head while making the layup and I put a whistle on it; he was crazy for thinking I should have passed on it. Forget what the 3rd play was but it was something that happened in a dual coverage area.

Point being instead of talking and asking about the plays to ensure we all got on the same page he just went off like some prima donna worried his reputation was being ruined by us mere mortals. On top of that the crew chief was a mentor of mine and the guy who got me into officiating and we had 2 1/2 hour ride home together. So I was going to get plenty of in-depth feedback and constructive criticism on my performance. I didn't need this U1 character interjecting his selfish bullsh!t on me in the middle of the game.