I'll be Seeing These Guys Tomorrow

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by zm1283

A lot of those people aren't necessarily being paid. I work at a high school and I went to several games after my season was done. It probably looked like I was "supervising" when I was really just standing there.





Around here, no one supervising or working the table makes anywhere close to what officials make. It's something like $30-40 for the whole night. Not exactly living high on the hog.



Eight teachers all making more than the officials? Really?



You know guys, if it's that bad, get out of officiating and get into teaching so you can take advantage of all these perks. No one forces you to officiate.

This is probably a very local issue, but yes in this area there are teachers and "volunteers" getting paid more than the game officials to either work the table or to be on the chain gang. Yes that is widely known here. There is also a problem because some local teacher's unions and their contract with the local school district made it where union members were to work these positions and get paid to do so.

And yes no one forces us to do anything, but then those should not complain when they get people with ulterior motives when they take a game other than what they want to "think" we should be taking games for. And then cry poor when we want more officials for a contest or raise the pay to cover costs to work the game. It is often here expected for officials to travel from certain distances, but then they have not changed the pay scale and then complain that the game is not "safe" for the players. Last time I checked the table people did not directly make the playing environment safer.

Peace

[BillyMac]

(He hasn't posted since August 30, 2012.)

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Last time I checked the table people did not directly make the playing environment safer.

Sounds like a job for the "Eagle".