From: ghost_of_morphy@poorconfusedstewie.com
"Pavel Brown" wrote in message
news:expatriate3925-C642EC.19551220122003@news.sf.sbcglobal.net...
> In article ,
> "Morphy's ghost" wrote:
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> > OK, since nadacomin has obviously reached a conclusion that won't let
him
> > answer your questions seriously, I'll take over for him.
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> Thank you. I appreciate your time.
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> > First of all, the post was obviously stating a fictitious situation that
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> > slightly (but only slightly) exaggerated.
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> > The post describes one bad day. Everyone has bad days at work.
Everyone
> > has days in which things don't go the way they plan. Yet most of us
> > responsible people work through this instead of running from it.
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> That's reasonable. And I'm entirely appreciative that the working
> environment is lousy. My question around this is why then do cerain
> corrections professionals (certainly not all of them) choose to go on
> the way they do and characterize themselves as victims in the process of
> performing their daily duties?
You know, we DO get victimized, don't we? In the original situation, wasn't
the woman sexually harassed and the victim of indecent exposure? I just had
another officer ask me tonight what he should do when he is working with a
woman who is subjected to this abuse. (I told him to violate the offender,
fill out the proper paper work, and notify his supervisor. Apparently the
woman he was working with when this happened felt that he need to go up to
that cell and take names and kick ass, but fortunately, he had sense enough
not to do that.) Still, if someone wants to complain about such behavior, I
certainly think they are entitled to do so.
>Yes, some days are incredibly bad, but it
> is still well worth it for the vast majority of corrections workers.
> This type of whining does absolutely nothing to further the cause of
> correctional professionals, it makes us sound like a bunch of crybabies
> with a sense of entitlement.
This is the kind of thing that made nadacomin suspect you were an
administrator. Certainly the behavior that you mention above is not the
most professional way to present oneself, but if a CO needs to let off a
little steam and complaining helps them cope better with the daily pressures
of life, I am not going to criticize them for it.
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> > What is wrong with this mentality is that, while the world does not owe
us a
> > living, an employer DOES owe us reasonable working conditions. Of
course,
> > the issue is really a lot more complicated than my statement also, but
my
> > statement is at least far more accurate than yours.
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> Yes... I predominantly agree with you. I do not support this attitude
> either. But.... this is the prevailing mentality with which people in
> the labour market contend on a daily basis. When we run around
> bellyaching, we frequently incur the disdain of others who also work
> very hard, and in often very poor conditions, for a very meager living.
> "What the hell is so special about you?" they say.
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> Has anyone ever considered that behaving like proud and responsible
> professionals, who take their job seriously, might be more beneficial
> than spouting off hateful and self-pitying rhetoric?
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> P.
That's just the way some people cope. It's probably not the best way, but
if you work in corrections you should be well accustomed to people who have
poor coping strategies. Perhaps it surprises you that you run into the same
thing on both sides of the cell door, but it shouldn't.
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