Back on May 27, I posted my review of the Spring Best Of The Midwest tournament which was hosted by the Chicago Magic. At the time, I ranted about a tournament that didn’t pay their referees at the field at the time of the match and promised to post an update to the situation.
Well. . .here we are three weeks later AND STILL HAVE NOT BEEN PAID! In-friggin-credible!!! In my working life, I’ve never waited three weeks for my first paycheck.
- I’ve e-mailed my contact back on 6/6 and she told me to wait a week.
- I e-mailed the same contact yesterday (10 days later) - no reply.
- I e-mailed her again today asking her when I should expect my check.
I wasn’t terribly impressed with the tournament to begin with, so this is obviously not improving my opinion. Considering there are other tournaments over Memorial Day weekend with competition that’s as good or better - i.e. NSR Midwest Cup, or Dayton’s Warrior Classic - I’m certainly not inclined to put up with the goat rodeo that BOMW has turned out to be.
I’ll post again when I actually receive my check.
June 18th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Email from our local assignor who also happens to be the state assignor for state cup (He is simply the messenger here).
“For everyone waiting for regular season and State Cup checks, I have been advised that the SWISRA President and Treasurer will be meeting Wednesday evening to sign checks….For the Fall, we are looking into a new payment system that will get everyone there money much quicker. Please plan to attend the Fall SWISRA meetings for full and complete details.”
The last part is almost an exact quote from another email we got last Dec. about the spring…
It should be noted that our last league game ended the first weekend in May….My last worked league game was the last weekend in April…
I was hoping to order new uniforms before ODP camp with this money….to late now….