Well, Whattaya Know???
For once, just once, my employers give a good, clean, safe inside job to a competent person who deserves it, rather than an ass-kissing born again sycophant. Good news for Marty and the dispatchers. Bad news for us canon fodder grunts in the field. The Pious Little Worm (PLW) shall remain a uniformed low-level supervisor (for now). Hopefully, by the time I am reinstated to my low-level supervisor's job, PLW will have found a little nest made juuust for him by the bigwigs. I just hope between now and then his incompetence doesn't get any of us hurt or killed (he once left me out in the middle of the busiest road in the county during a rainstorm, with a wrecker driver and a squirrely subject). Some people just don't belong. If I had the smarts he has for money management, public speaking, sales, etc., I would not be here. This idiot picked a field he has absolutely no knack for. I know he was washed out of a neighboring department because he couldn't hack it. He was field trained 5, count em, 5 times before he was let loose on his own out here. Wearing a uniform does not magically turn you into an all seeing, all knowing wiseman. Wearing sergeant's stripes doesn't mean you cut it, either. Perhaps they took into account PLW's numerous false OWI arrests-he came out to show he could play with us big girls and boys and left in disgrace with his tail tucked between his legs. I take satisfaction in the fact I helped get him bounced off the shift and put through yet another field training program again-this time in stripes! How embarassing! You would think he would keep a low profile. Now I hear he is bad-mouthing Marty for beating him out of that position. Very un-Christian things coming from his mealy little mouth, like how Marty doesn't have "the knowledge of the job" (ok, Mr. false arrests) or "Christian values". Funny, Marty and I are both atheists, yet we are the ones who have used our own funds to help strangers out (against regulations), given away winter weather gear to those who needed it more, accompanied frightened friends to medical tests-the list goes on. Funny, I have never seen PLW do anything other than promote himself and his perceived saintliness. And according to Marty, he is sweet as pie to his face. Of course. PLW does not have the guts to confront anyone face to face and everyone knows he speaks with a forked tongue.