there's this football thing...
so, you may have heard a certain team is heading for the playoffs, and the tickets at quite a premium. only 1700 faculty tickets were set aside for season ticket holders, and faculty and staff had to enter a lottery to get them.
now, i had had season tickets to the games, but sold them to my coworker since he was new and didnt qualify. that coworker asked me to enter the lottery for him. well, i didn't win.
my other coworker had over a dozen people entering the lottery for him... two of whom came through. he's sitting on 2 pair of tickets so far. because he'd already lined up a series of folks who might want to go, the newbie coworker who was using me for the lottery doesnt have a chance to get the other guy's extra seats.
next year, i think we all ought to have an agreement that we could buy each other's extras should something like this arise again. it cuts down on the politics and bad-feelings.