Are there even any prisoners left in them? The democrats seem hell-bent on releasing all the prisoners back into society.
I vote for Warden Bunny.*Prisons
They should put the bunny in charge.
At least the place I helped out at my role was. I would say 75% of the people from the national guard assisting there were what I would consider DEI status. Most were from Puerto Rico from talking to them. A lot of women as well. If they did their job it would have been fine but many just stood there or sat in the lunch area. Then again many of these people were from the city of Rochester so it might have been my sampling.
A friend of mine who is a great human being was a CO. He quite just over a year ago without another job. He was sick of the mandated OT then and when he saw a few COs get beat up and one was shanked at another prison he asked himself if he wanted to die for these people? The answer to that was no and with zero support from the state and very few new recruits coming in he resigned without another job. He’s working 4 part time jobs to make ends meet while training for his new career and he’s happier. He killing himself to accomplish a goal.
It is not that good anymore in any government role hence why they are having such a difficult time hiring people. I work for the government in some fashion and we are short all over the place and highly tracked in our workday and work product. There are little traps all over the place they use as gotcha moments and give us crap about everything. Pay is low and time off isn’t that great anymore. I get a good amount of holidays and sick time is awesome but vacation is not what I would get in the private sector. I do get a retirement that most don’t get and I have good health care that isn’t expensive. I do pay into my retirement and get no matching on retirement contributions. My union is working to get us a 10-15,000 pay increase because we are so low paid and they are considering doing it. We have around 150-175 position shortages and roughly 50% more work than they had 25 years ago. So yes they had it good but it’s not that way anymore. I have actually thought about returning to the private sector.
I realize that I sometimes paint with a broad brush. Sorry to lump you in with the overpaid, under performing, petulant children that occupy most of the space in municipal unions. However, if you've been forced to eat the gubment shit sandwich and say "Thank you, may I have another" for so long sooner or later you spit it out and say "fukit". Many of the union comp. packages are substantially higher than the corresponding nonunion jobs. In many cases those pay gaps have continued to grow larger, not smaller. I give you Obama and Biden.
You’re talking completely different levels and roles of government. You’re talking politicians and if so I agree with you. What I’m talking about are the workers in the trenches. My department might be different as well because they care little for us and our directors hate us and what we do. They are penny pinchers and do whatever they can to make themselves look good. We used to have 2-3 more people in my direct area for less work. Back in the day I agree they had it good and did not work hard with the pensions and benefits being much better. It’s different now and the pay has not risen much over the years. Plenty of year we have received 0-2% raises and as you know that doesn’t keep up with inflation. I make out good with sick time but honestly with what I pay into my retirement I’d probably be better off finding a company with matching and we do not get life time health insurance.
It also does not help that the state is more concerned with the safety of the scum and trash, (sorry, I meant “incarcerated individuals “)that populate these prisons than the law abiding men and women who work there.
Generalizing here, having worked with folks from PR and discussing work ethic, the lazy way is the way and nothing gets done without a bribe...seems to be a cultural thing.
Zero argument there.
Couldn’t agree more. They have designed it this way and the remaining good officers can’t retire fast enough for both sides. They are all political hacks or liberal shills now.
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Are you serious? That’s great news.
