Dear dimwit on the phone

[PaperDoll]

Ever have a caller call back to ask the exact same question even though you've already given the answer the first time? We had one person do that all the time and now we have two.

I've worked with people who did this, and I think they genuinely expected the answer to change.

 

[doctorx]

500 pages of dimwittery now.

 

[HejiraHenry]

There's no shortage.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

If it had taken another week, it would have been the fifth anniversary of Starman creating this thread.

5 years, 500 pages.

EDIT: Speaking of dimwits, I forked up the math. Sixth anniversary, six years, 500 pages.

 

[HanSenSE]

There's no shortage.

Unfortunately.

 

[apeman33]

Dear North Podunk HS,

Please can you stop having JV scrubs working the scoreboard. They don't know how to work the shotclock. They don't know how to put the points on the scoreboard. In fact, the one who was keeping book awarded two points to the team just because. The other team actually caught it, but their book keeper was too much of a moron to actually call them on their shirt. You're lucky those two points ended up not mattering. And this isn't the first time. Volleyball has the same problem. In fact, I worry about the level of education at this school. So please, please can you get someone who knows how to pay attention for longer duration than the time between receiving new Snap Chats.

Why are JV players doing that stuff? Every school I've been to pays faculty to do that.

 

[doctorx]

I kept score for the varsity as a JV player and failed to notify the officials of a bonus situation, costing our team a free throw.

Our guys won by a point.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Why are JV players doing that stuff? Every school I've been to pays faculty to do that.

One high school I cover makes sure an adult does it. The crosstown school uses kids. And those kids are such homers it's awful. I'm surprised schools don't complain more to the section.

 

[apeman33]

The high schools around here make sure adults do all that stuff. Not that they can guarantee their competence. One of Podunk's rivals once had someone doing the varsity basketball scorebook who was incompetent. Her ineptitude cost her own school games at least twice.

Here, they used to have someone who could almost never keep the horn and the clock switch straight. About two or three times a game, she'd hit the horn instead or turning the clock on. Then she'd act surprised and hold up both hands. Eventually, she got moved to the JV games.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Can't remember the last time I saw a kid keeping the book in any sport around here. It's almost always an adult, and in the rare cases a kid is doing it, that kid isn't an athlete on the team.

 

[Batman]

Can't remember the last time I saw a kid keeping the book in any sport around here. It's almost always an adult, and in the rare cases a kid is doing it, that kid isn't an athlete on the team.

Lots of high school baseball and softball teams around us have one of the bench guys keeping the book. That's for their own statkeeping, though, and not official. And some are better at it than others.

In basketball I think our state association has a rule that it has to be an adult. They make the book keeper and clock operator wear referee's shirts.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Did a boys game from that school tonight and they managed to scrounge together enough adults to do the clock and book. I don't know why the girls can't seem to do it.