can't get games

[Manny A]

Originally Posted by BornToReferee

The issue of other insurance wasn't know over that time span.

Hmph. For someone who is much more concerned with adequate insurance coverage and potential litigation, I would have expected you to be able to teach a class on the subject at umpire clinics.

I think it speaks volumes that there isn't anyone here that feels you did no wrong. I'm not suggesting that the assignor was completely in the right here. But there is a reasonable expectation that the scheduling of umpires for games is a shared responsibility. The assignor is responsible for making the assignments, and the umpires are responsible for knowing they are fully qualified and capable of taking those assignments. You failed in making sure you were qualified--at least in your mind when it comes to insurance--and dropped the ball on giving the assignor a proper heads up. And now you want to sue. You're not going to get any sympathy here from people who have been on both sides of the fence for much longer than you.

[robbie]

I would not hire you either.

There were 2 "should I sue?' comments and 1 "grevience" comment.

Sorry - next..........................

[Moosie74]

I can understand that you feel the need to have insurance coverage and that's been rehashed here over and over so I'm not going to address that issue.

If you're unsure about taking a game for whatever reason you need to tell the assigner that you're not available for these games, please let me know about games next week or whatever their assigning period is.

This buys you a few days to do your research. As a rookie softball umpire you may feel like there's a chance something will happen that you will be sued for, for myself as a 20-year official, I quit worrying about that a long time ago knowing the odds are in my favor there won't be an issue.

When you wish to officiate, you're at the mercy of the assigner who controls the available work. S/he is your entry to doing the games and you need to respect that situation.

It's really not fair to the rest of your officials to take a game and then not show for it, it makes everyone look bad. If I'm in your association and know that you've taken a game and I'm sitting at home watching the grass grow because there are no other unassigned games and I decide to go down to the local park and find that the only umpire assigned to the game or there's now a single umpire because someone failed to show, I'm not going to be impressed with you especially if there is an umpire and they say, oh, Jim was supposed to be here, don't know where he is....not ok.

[HugoTafurst]

Originally Posted by BornToReferee

Do you suppose the association (not saying what that is) I'm currently registered with would be open to having two associations in the same area...somewhat competing against each other?

What about carving up the city into sections whereby I would do the assigning for some small area, while the existing group does the rest? You suppose that would fly?

Why in the world would they want to do that?