NICE.

[Rulekeep]

It's June. 

This may not be very significant for those of you who dont live in a wasteland excuse for a capital city but for those of us who do it is VERY SIGNIFICANT. High school baseball has just ended, little league is ending, and Legion is starting. I have not been assigned any games this season. At all. Not even that groddy softball thing. Most of the assigning is handled by one guy, a substitute teacher who over the winter had some "personality issues" with me (hit up the like button if you relate lmao) and so I figured I was just being ignored unless I demanded for games. I work at the Kroger in town and because this city is pathetically small I see everybody, including the frighteningly intense LL coach who gave me lots of strike zone lessons I did not want or need. He promised he'd get me on the list because the minors kids like me (GROSS) and I was never emailed...then yesterday I saw my high school mentor at the same store and he asked me why I wasn't umpiring and I just said I hadn't been emailed. He said he would get in touch with Mr. Bigassigner and LO, there is that email. Telling me I won't be umpiring. Apparently my """mentor""" in a neighboring town (so many blue polos) "dug up some dirt" (don't ask me what it was. I am not at the liberty to discuss it on a thread not to mention its been requested that I don't) when I was there playing with the high school (what a loser-explains why he never called me back) and passed it along to Mr. Bigassigner. To be blunt, he completely f---ed me, to the point where other people couldn't add me to their crews on our lil spreadsheets. His excuse was "after I saw what you're like off the field, I decided you weren't a good umpire" (who cares) and "we had enough umpires already" which was such a horrible fib I was tempted to send him pictures of the flyers all round town begging for *VOLUNTEER* umpires. Instead I opened a side savings account to save my measly Kroger money to attend the biggest, most prestigious, most chattered about clinic I could by 2017. 

Since I lost a year of experience anyways. 

[Mudisfun]

I am confused... your Mentor who stated he would go out of the way to inquire as to why you are not receiving games then went out and dug up dirt on you?

Either way it sucks you are being black balled especially when it sounds like there is a need for the services which you enjoy providing. Go to your camp, get experience and notice and a bigger fish or assignor will come along and use you or will take over the big time assignors job.

 

[Rulekeep]

4 hours ago, Mudisfun said:

I am confused... your Mentor who stated he would go out of the way to inquire as to why you are not receiving games then went out and dug up dirt on you?

Either way it sucks you are being black balled especially when it sounds like there is a need for the services which you enjoy providing. Go to your camp, get experience and notice and a bigger fish or assignor will come along and use you or will take over the big time assignors job.

 

I have a mentor/partner here in town (one who finally got people in touch with me) and one in a neighboring town (the one who caused this landslide)

[udbrky]

Do you know the allegations against you? Can you fight them? Can you move?

[Rulekeep]

On June 6, 2016 at 7:49 PM, udbrky said:

Do you know the allegations against you? Can you fight them? Can you move?

Yes, yes, no, and it's not worth the effort.