Well, w/ a Lt. retiring it is now time for promotions. Sgt’s. going for a Lt’s spot and officers trying to get a Sgt’s spot. Let the ball sack gargling and ass kissing begin!!!! Oh, almost forgot the backstabbing… the Blue Falcons will be out in force.

It's fun to watch.

I always said that promotion by popular election wasn’t any worse than any of the other methods.

My agency spends a ton of money on promotions. Not sure how big yours is, but I’ve seen some pretty stupid screw-ups due to incompetent HR trolls being involved. Pay a wad of cash for a professional outfit to run the process, then HR manages to screw something up on the backend.

It sure can be entertaining though.

Despite HR, our current way works as well or better than any others I’ve seen.

But I still wanna try popular election, just to see if I’m right. We still get some WTFs promoted even with our system.

Agree 100%. I was the FOP President, on the contract negotiating team from time to time and active in our union.
Which meant that I often had to voice my opposition to stupid policy implementations, involve myself in half ass disciplinary actions and question how the budget was being spent.
Along comes promotion time. I would score in the high 90% per cent on the written phase and my evaluations were very good. Then when I did the oral portion of the process, I "scored poorly" and my answers were not sufficient to earn the promotion.
So, I would interview the butt kissers and yes men who got the stripes about their answers to the exact same questions I was asked, and their answers were the same as mine, almost word for word. No promotion for me!
Funny how that worked out. Every time. Its a real mystery!

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

LOL I have never seen that before it's hilarious

I might know somebody who used to carry around warehouse-store sized packages of Chapstick at times like this, liberally offering free samples to the "usual suspects."

That person will be retiring as a regular ol' non-supervisory working guy, which might be somewhat connected to stunts like the above.

I like how people get promotions in Star Trek's "mirror universe" or the Klingon Empire.

Stop the clock and put away the calendar, back up a half-century with me. Never seek nor accept any promotion. Remain a happy private in the rear rank, then take your pension with you as you find somewhere else to spend it without having to deal with the idiots you used to report to.

When I was the guy in charge I made entirely different mistakes, but I did so with style and class, usually adding in a little inappropriate humor to lighten each situation just a bit.

Started out with badge number 199, retired with badge number 1. I was a lot happier as the junior guy on the night shift than I ever was in the top floor office. During my last few years on the job I enjoyed suiting up and walking my old downtown beat in the middle of the night, or riding along with the new guy and letting him make all the decisions (and do all the paperwork, of course).

Yes, we actually walked foot beats when I started on the job. Tower lights to alert us when to find a call box and check in with dispatch for the next assignment. Portable radios weighed about 5 pounds, had a talk-time of about 20 minutes or a listen time of about 40 minutes per battery charge (if they worked at all). The best part of walking a beat was not having to drive around in a car smelling like vomit and turds.

Enough reminiscing for now. Enjoy your day!

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Originally posted by LoboGunLeather:
The best part of walking a beat was not having to drive around in a car smelling like vomit and turds.

That brought a smile to my face.

When I started as an investigator, I graduated from cars that smelled like vomit to one that smelled like decomp whenever it heated up in the summer. Good car, near-new, but sat with a body in the back seat for a few days only to be impounded and-- when not claimed by next of kin-- converted to agency use. Good times.