Post by wobblypops on Dec 25, 2017 5:47:24 GMT -5
Hi wobbly,
let me give you a certain perspective. I don’t know what job you have but let’s take a doctor. If a doc gets collared for DWI, after posting bail he gets to go on with his life, seeing his patients, making his money. If he doesn’t go to jail he will have to pay but he won’t get fired. It used to be that if a cop was convicted of any misd. or felony(obvious) he was automatically fired. Unless he had a HUGE hook. That’s why guys like me retired after 20 years, because every day you go to work you risked losing your pension.
i know a cop who was waiting at a red light. A knucklehead kid on a motorcycle lost control because he was speeding and smashed into the cops car. The kid died. So now you have a vehicular death and in the ensuing police investigation the cop was required to blow and he was actually over the limit. Mind you, he was stopped at a red light just waiting for it to turn green. The DA did his best to throw him in jail AFTER he was terminated.
The Job was losing so many experienced guys because we didn’t want to play pension roulette that they eased up on their rules of termination.
Just saying. Merry Christmas to you and your family
I'm actually a machinist by trade but I hate it with a passion. I see what you are saying there and I respect that. Maybe I just can't see why anyone would steal from a store or even drink and drive. I don't even go online once I open my first beer. I don't ever go out drinking even when I go out to eat I will have water or a soda.
I stole a pack of caramel when I was a kid. My dad say me chewing on something and he knew I had no money so he caught me redhanded. He marched my little butt down to the mom and pop pharmacy and made me give back the uneaten candy and pay for them. I was in tears. I was so embarrassed and I never stole another thing again. I even ask for the pen at the bank.