Career No-nos.

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

9. Wearing jewelry.

In general, sure. I wear a wedding band as do most guys I work with who are married.

[jTheUmp]

I assume wedding bands are fine... I've never noticed if someone was wearing a wedding band (or not) when I've worked with them.

Wasn't a concern for me last year. Now that I'm married, I suppose I should pay attention to that kind of thing. (I know they don't care around here in football).

I've been told that facial hair is also a no-no. I used to have a full beard (neatly trimmed, about 1/2 an inch long), and had a few people make comments like "I'm not saying you need to shave it off... but..." Now the beard is strictly and off-season thing.

[scrounge]

One that must have happened, because our state assoc had to send out a couple emails saying it was strictly prohibited:

Engaging in social media with a student-athlete that was not a direct family member.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by scrounge

One that must have happened, because our state assoc had to send out a couple emails saying it was strictly prohibited:

Engaging in social media with a student-athlete that was not a direct family member.

Interesting... I do exactly that, although I do have a reason for it. She's also my daughter's pitching coach, and my daughter is not old enough for social media.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

Interesting... I do exactly that, although I do have a reason for it. She's also my daughter's pitching coach, and my daughter is not old enough for social media.

Yeah, that's interesting. Lots of officials are involved in their communities outside of officiating, and that often includes working with youth. Church youth leaders, for example, often have FB connections with the students.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Welpe

I wear a wedding band as do most guys I work with who are married.

I have no problem with wedding bands, however, due to safety reasons, back when I was married, it came off, and was strapped to my watch, in my bag, back in the locker room, during games.

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Way back before I retired from teaching, and before I won my in independence with a divorce decree, I was passing the gymnasium on the way out of the school and noticed the boys team shooting around. I decided to show off and take a few shots with the guys, while I was wearing my wedding band. I was only half paying attention when one of my students passed me the ball and caught the pass with my fingers extended, which jammed the fingers. I woke up the next morning with a very swollen ring finger. I showed the injury to the school nurse as soon as I got to school. The wedding band was acting like tourniquet, cutting off circulation to the finger, and because of the swelling, we couldn't get the ring off. We were on our way to the metal shop to get the ring cut off, but decided to stop by the cafeteria kitchen first. Luckily, a little butter on my finger helped to get the ring off.