Know Your Role. If you are a police officer, your role is to answer radio calls and make decisions based upon them. You are a sworn law enforcement officer, and amazingly enough, you are given arrest powers. If someone needs to be pinched, lock them up. If not, well, not.

I’ll bet there’s market for this pithy advice as sampler given to new academy graduates.

LDIV – No, but I work for one of its former flunkies. Ramsey.

Snigs – Only 20%? We’re well ahead of the curve!

Dano – There are idiot detectives in my squad. We try and ignore them and let them stew in their own idiocy.

Admiral – No, we have to take their jackassery with smiles,, because otherwise, they will rat us out to their sergeants.

Ryan – Exactly!!!

Jason – That’s an awesome poster! I look at it like this. I am really good at what I do. On the other hand, I know next to nothing about computers, save for some blogger HTML code. So, I am aware of my ignorance, and when an issue comes up, I ask someone with smarts for help – usually Code Monkey.

What I don’t do is fake it, or pretend I know something about which I know nothing. Some cops in my division do that, and their stories are usually printed here.

Alan B – You can say that again!

MeToo – Thank God for that. I’d probably have to train them!

Common Curtesey can fill the gap somewhat but seems to be just as rare.

Pity, ain’t it!

1 of the bowling balls will get broken. Another will get pregnant, and the third will go missing.

I deal on an almost constant basis with people who like to pretend that they are “switched on” when in reality they are consistently falling short of the half way point to mediocrity.

This comes from a societal mandate that we abandon the reward system for those who produce in favor of a system that uniformly applies minimal reward to everyone in the name of fairness.

I laugh every morning when I drive by a construction site on 611 just north of the Turnpike. The union guys are protesting some non-union company who looks to be making great/swift progress with their project.

Affirmative actions isn’t limited to race. It has expanded well into intellectual capacity and ambition.

I offer this:

Motivation

http://www.webguys.com/pdavis/karate/tikwanleep.html

http://www.webguys.com/pdavis/karate/audio/16_Ti_Kwan_Leep_32kbs.mp3

I guess that is why it is called the job. Anywhere else you could tell them to pound sand.

Back when I was allowed to work, part of my job was doing computer support for graduate students (those going for a Masters or PhD). The degree was in computational biology (or some variant). Note the word ‘computational’… implies they know something about computers… at the very least basic knowledge. These boneheads couldn’t print yet would get degrees for writing crap code? Umm… wtf? I quit caring after I shortened a bit of their code’s run time from 5 minutes to about 2 seconds, and no one cared… and the original code is still used.

Those who have brains are rare… cherish their friendship… ‘cuse everyone else is cannon fodder.