[FiremanMike]

Alright, so apparently it wasn't the dispatchers I was going to piss off.

I show up last night for trick or treat, and I am pulled aside by another part-time officer, one who's been there for a year and is also related to the chief somehow (marriage to someone). This guy pulls me aside and tells me;

1. How could I give a ticket for 34 in a school zone to such and such, don't I know who she is??
2. Everyone in this little village has a scanner that they listen to all day. They will start recognizing that I am running plates all the time (I ran 5 in an 8 hour period, followed by DS info) of local people, they would get pissed off and I would be gone.
3. My 2 tickets in my 1 week of employment were more than his year long career and I needed to slow it down.

This is obviously a small village department, and I am coming from a ghetto fire department. I thought I was being proactive and doing my job, but apparently I'm being a pain in the ass (perhaps I am over-exaggerating that last statement).

I was nearly done in the process at the city I already work for, but for an auxiliary position. This department is much busier, more urban, and likes proactive actions, but it's an auxiliary position. While I would have access to work special duty to make some cash, all patrol would be a) free and b) 2nd seat to a full-time officer. I had told the chief at this department earlier this week that I was going to give the village dept a go and not take the aux spot right now. He said he completely understood where I was coming from, but reminded me to call if I ever got bored or "into trouble" (didn't know what he meant at the time, I think I do now), and that we could pick up the process where we left off at any time.

I dunno, you guys have been doing this gig a whole lot longer than I. Politics in the PD is much different than the FD

 

[FiremanMike]

So I have about a year before I can start putting in for some fulltime positions. There's one in particular with a nearby Sheriff's Office that has Public Safety Officers (firefighter/emt/deputy) that I'm really after.

Do I

1. Stick it out for a year with this place, make the best of it, fly under the radar

2. Go aux with the busy department and ride 2nd seat

3. Start calling the other 2 places that I already have applications in with to see if/when they are going to call

I don't want it to come back next year "why did you only work there for 2 weeks?!" and have it be a ding..

 

[FiremanMike]

A quick update, I was really getting eaten alive inside by this issue. I went in to work last night, and drummed up enough courage to ask the Chief and my FTO if I was doing too much and how they felt about the school zone cite. They both said in unison "**** that guy, we're the ones you need to impress, and we think you're doing great"

I feel better

 

[FiremanMike]

I think he met the ROD slug of the department. Someone who is threatened by a new guy who wants to be proactive, and actually do their job instead of sleeping on midnights.

The guy is just a general **** bag. I would never say it there, because drag's right, I am a "rook", but **** bag cops are the same as **** bag firemen, I'm just mad I didn't detect his ****-bagness sooner. He's young, but didn't take the job to be a cop, he took the job to carry a gun and score some free *****. He prefers to drive around and intimidate, but doesn't really want to take police action.

I'd love to be a troop, but OSP doesn't pay that great, they get fired all the time (only to get their job back 6 months later with backpay), and the potential to move all around state is ever-present and not realistic with my family. Of all the instructors we had in the academy, the two that impressed me the most were OSP troops.