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NFL Refs Need To Start Looking For Work

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Education & Training with Steve Hoffacker LLC

Talk about blowing a call! NFL officials blew a good thing. Where else can you make over $100K a year for about 20 weeks of work - and only 3-4 hours per week on the field?

The NFL officials unions have asserted themselves - to the extreme detriment of their members, and the season is starting without them. They should find other work, because the NFL will do just fine without them.

The NFL has no reason to negotiate with the union because they have replacement officials at less than half the cost of the union ones.

I hope the replacement officials do well and get better and better throughout the season. As for the union members, they have missed out. Too bad. Some of them were actully good.

 

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Team Honeycutt
Allen Tate - Concord, NC

NFL Refs probably have made a mistake. If their replacements do a great job they just may have lost their jobs for good. I wonder if they even thought about that.

Betty

Sep 05, 2012 02:34 AM
Al Raymondi
Ocean View Realty Group in Ormond By The Sea Florida - Ormond Beach, FL
Ormond By The Sea Florida - Home and Condo Sales

Pay dues to the union and the union makes your job go away?  Sounds like a lose-lose Steve.

Sep 05, 2012 02:52 AM
Steve Hoffacker
Steve Hoffacker LLC - West Palm Beach, FL
Certified Aging In Place Specialist-Instructor

Betty,

The can thank the union for this. Too bad but they need to move on. I wouldn't hire them back except as non-union refs. :)

Steve

Sep 05, 2012 02:56 AM
Steve Hoffacker
Steve Hoffacker LLC - West Palm Beach, FL
Certified Aging In Place Specialist-Instructor

Al,

Unions have been messing up our economy for decades by fighting for the wrong issues. :)

Steve

Sep 05, 2012 02:57 AM
Charles Stallions
Charles Stallions Real Estate Services - Pensacola, FL
850-476-4494 - Pensacola, Pace or Gulf Breeze, Fl.

When you buy pay for something that involves a Union whether it is clothing, food or referees you are paying too much. The Unions are like the government, they tax their members to death and try control their ever move.

Sep 05, 2012 12:41 PM
Don Hintz
2D-enterprises / HAUS Design, LLC - Anderson, IN

Steve,

As little as I care about professional football, I hope the NFL sticks it to these refs. Throw the yellow flag at them and penalize them by replacing them.

Going on strike for more pay! It will NEVER make sense to me.

Sep 05, 2012 01:02 PM
Steve Hoffacker
Steve Hoffacker LLC - West Palm Beach, FL
Certified Aging In Place Specialist-Instructor

Charles,

Whatever good the unions did for their members way back then, they are not good for our economy now. :)

Steve

Sep 05, 2012 01:59 PM
Steve Hoffacker
Steve Hoffacker LLC - West Palm Beach, FL
Certified Aging In Place Specialist-Instructor

Don,

Agreed. Don't let them come back as a union. :)

Steve

Sep 05, 2012 01:59 PM
Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
Home Stager/Redesign

Steve - it is hard to have sympathy for a group for whom this is often a part time job.   

Sep 08, 2012 11:00 AM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

NFL refs have a hard day on Sunday with travel and such, and perhaps Saturday and Monday too.  But I understand most have other jobs they go to and have to be home Mondays.  They blew a good gig though!

It looks to me like these replacement guys, albeit having to learn a bunch of pro rules, have done okay!

Sep 11, 2012 04:26 AM
Steve Hoffacker
Steve Hoffacker LLC - West Palm Beach, FL
Certified Aging In Place Specialist-Instructor

Kathy,

Agreed - at full time pay! :)

Steve

Sep 11, 2012 06:55 AM
Steve Hoffacker
Steve Hoffacker LLC - West Palm Beach, FL
Certified Aging In Place Specialist-Instructor

Jay,

Pink slip the old guys and embrace the new ones. :)

Steve

Sep 11, 2012 06:55 AM