She Got Her Son’s Baseball Coach Fired Because He Never Paid His Share of Travel Tournament Lodging, And She Was Eventually Forced To Confront The President of The Organization
This woman’s 8-year-old son recently played his first season of competitive baseball, and she acted as team mom.
Back in December, the team’s head coach– who is divorced with two sons– also approached the team about playing at a tournament in Panama City in June.
At the time, everyone on the team agreed to play in the tournament, so she and the coach found housing options that would cost each family $2,200 for the entire week-long trip.
The bill was going to be broken into two different payments– with $800 due in December to reserve the houses and $1,400 due in May to complete the booking.
“Myself and another family put their credit cards down, with the understanding we would be Venmoed everyone’s payment,” she explained.
Yet, in December, the head coach who proposed the trip approached her and asked for an extension.
He claimed that being a single dad around the holidays was tough, and she understood that. So, she allowed him to delay his payment.
Well, by March, she still never received any money from the coach. At that point, she decided to send a Venmo request for the funds, but rather than receiving the money afterward, she just got a phone call from the coach.
He detailed how his truck had broken down, and he also had to take his ex-wife to court. That’s why his $800 payment had not been submitted, and he promised to send her the money by the due date of the second payment.
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However, the trip in June eventually rolled around, and she still never received any money from the head coach.
“I considered refusing him entry codes into the house, but his children would have been punished,” she recalled.
Instead, she spoke to the coach on the trip, and he, once again, promised her that he would pay her back with a repayment plan that was put in writing.
It is obviously now August, though, and no payments ever came through. So, when the team’s organization had an event last week, she and her husband decided to approach the president of the organization.
They explained everything that happened with the head coach, and the following day at fall tryouts, the president spoke with the coach directly. The coach was given an 8:00 p.m. deadline to submit the payment, and thankfully, she finally received the $800.
She let the organization know that the coach finally paid the bill, too. But she later found out that the coach had been fired anyway. Just yesterday, she also received a furious text from the head coach’s ex-wife. The woman accused her of punishing the coach’s children, who no longer have a travel team to play baseball on.
“She came after me, and it’s making me feel like this is my fault,” she vented.
So now, even though every other family paid on time, she’s been left wondering whether she handled the situation the wrong way and was a jerk for getting the head coach fired.
Didn’t she give the coach ample time to submit his dues? After six months, would you have approached the president of the organization, too? Did she do the wrong thing by holding the coach accountable?
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