Here is one for you and I'd like to hear your response on how you would have handled this.
I was asked to bowl a tournament with a group of bowlers about 6 months ago. I was told who was bowling and I thought that the team was made up of some pretty good bowlers so I agreed and paid my money.
When I showed up to bowl, my name had been crossed out and replaced with another bowler while my name appeared with some guys who I really didn't know, nor are they as good as the team I agreed to bowl on.
I though aobut raising hell about it but thought that if I did and the guy who took my place was moved back and he bowled better then I did, then I would have looked like the "bad" guy.
After we were finished, I asked the person who had asked me to bowl what happened and who made the dission to move me to another team without asking. He said that he didn't know it until he arrived.
There was a group of people who made up 3 teams. I asked the person who made the change why he did that without asking and he got defensive and said that "they" decided that they wanted 5 righties. What? I was a lefty 6 months ago when they asked me, so that wasn't a good excuse. Then he said that is was a concensis that decided to remove me and put me on another team.
The team I bowled on didn't cash, whereas the team that I "thought" I was bowling with shot good and is 4th. The bowler who replaced me as low on the team with a 601. I didn't bowl very good but shot 627.
We had to bowl D/S this morning and I was once again switched and bowled D/S with someone I had only been around a time or two. I din't bowl good in Singles but shot 754 in doubles with my partner shooting 530.
If I would have been on the team that I was scheduled to, and agreed to, the team would have had a higher score and I would have made some good money.
The botom line is, it really doesn't make a difference what the score outcome is or was, it's the way you treat people and I feel like I was shafted.
Lets say that you were asked to bowl a tournament and you're team was you, Chris Barnes, Walter Ray, Pete Weber, and Norm Duke. You had been asked to bowl on other team but you wanted to bowl with those guys so you agreed to it. When you showed up, you were bowling with other bowlers. Reguardless of the outcome, would you have felt shafted?
Right is right and wrong is wrong. If they would have asked me before showing up, I may have agreed to the switch but without asking, I felt like I was taken advantage of.
Your thought please.
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