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Have you ever had a director make your band run a part, then thought your section was messing up but it was another sectionwith the same part?

That happened today in band.

our BD was gone for unknown reasons, so he had one of our dms running the full band rehearsal. Well, he had given our dm what sections in what songs to run. In one song, music from the movie Gladiator, there is a part where the altos and the clarients join together. It starts with the alto saxes doing eighth note runs and then the clarinets join in halfway through the third measure to the end, then they have the melody together.
Well, the alot saxes kept coming in late. Like, a measure or a half measure too late, so it kept getting messed up and they were always making the melody late. Clarients were counting our parts, because when the altos start we are doing sixteenth note runs. Well, the altos were waiting until we stopped the runs, which was a measure after they were supposed to come in. Clarinets just ket playing with the rest of the band.
So the DM tells the clarients and altos to play from that spot. He tells us to start at measure 47, which is a measure into the altos part(I have seen the score). Well, on 47 clarients were counting a rest for 6 counts and then the next measure had a 4 count rest before we joined saxes. Well, the altos thought we were starting a measure before, where they first come in. So we did it a billion times, trying to get it right, when it was all the alto's falt.
Why does this make me mad? The dm kept making the clarients paly it alone because he thought we weren't conting right. We were, they weren't starting at the right time. Yet the dm was bagging on the clarients,s aying we don't know our parts. He never secluded the altos to see if they were doing it right. And he plays alto sax, by the way.

So has anyone else had this same problem? Post your stories!

It happens. My advice: Don't take it personally or else you end up not liking a lot of people in your band.

Woodwinds in my band aren't exactly well loved, so it happens to us a lot. Sometimes it is just prejudice and other times it's hard to tell the difference between instrument groups, especially for people who don't play all of the instruments involved. xp