Ever wondered why you do the job you do?

I know a lady who worked for HSBC she had a good roll and the pay an perks were good too - SHE HATED THE JOB!

she's now is a nurse at New Cross Hospital and love the job altho it is alot less pay.

To be fair, Red Herring is a Traffic Officer.
Special ops always have a much better working life, they are double crewed and dont have to deal with half the crap that the front-line cannon fodder do.
Trouble is, getting into those roles isnt easy anymore because everyone wants them.

I wonder every single day - simple answer is and has been for years now just to pay the bills - (me and another 9 millions prob feel the same!!) hate every single working hour in this place hate the way i am treated hate the whole thing pile of rubbish. hopefully new job will be better in a few weeks

[Shellywoozle]

Cheers folks words all taken in but I am failing to see any good in the job at the mo.

Going in early tonight to get a statement done as I feel I have let the IP down by cancelling ..... more of my own time, and I am wondering why on earth I am bothering as I wont get thanked, in fact I know I will get told I am not gatting paid for it.

Job hunting will start after the AR, I did decide yesterday I wasnt coming due to workload but after my 11 hours stint yesterdaty/today then nearly getting wiped out on the way home as a pursiut happened right in front, well the bandit car was 2 inches from my 10 plate new motor, I decided I was going and the Police would have to go on hold. !!

Grrrrrr gotta go in at 8, dont wanna

[Red Herring]

Originally Posted by Von Teese

To be fair, Red Herring is a Traffic Officer.
Special ops always have a much better working life, they are double crewed and dont have to deal with half the crap that the front-line cannon fodder do.
Trouble is, getting into those roles isnt easy anymore because everyone wants them.

You cheeky git..... I might have been a Traffic Sgt for a while but then I saw the light and got a proper job.....

Yes I am still in Special Ops and yes you are right about not having to deal with all the cr4p that section have to, but where do you think I recruit my officers from? There isn't a single officer on my team that came from another specialist department, they all came from division and I headhunted them because they had a good reputation as grafters. Like I said, reputations count for a lot. The best judge of an officer is their peers.

[Biker Biggles]

Originally Posted by Red Herring

Most of the grief I've ever had has been caused by senior management rather than the public.

Nothing specific to the police this.Its the same in many workplaces and is every bit as bad where I work.These people cause untold amounts of stress to the workforce as seen by numerous posts by different people in this thread.Good workers are reduced to shadows of their former selves and eventually either leave or get the boot.Welcome to the expendable workforce culture where people are just numbers to be used and discarded like like a bit of bog paper.
Im sure we can blame Gordon Brown or the unions for it if we try hard enough though.

Originally Posted by Red Herring

You cheeky git..... I might have been a Traffic Sgt for a while but then I saw the light and got a proper job.....

Yes I am still in Special Ops and yes you are right about not having to deal with all the cr4p that section have to, but where do you think I recruit my officers from? There isn't a single officer on my team that came from another specialist department, they all came from division and I headhunted them because they had a good reputation as grafters. Like I said, reputations count for a lot. The best judge of an officer is their peers.

I want to work for you, purely because I think you'd be like a yoda figure.

[Red Herring]

Originally Posted by Owenski

I want to work for you, purely because I think you'd be like a yoda figure.

I had to look that up to make sure you weren't being rude....

From Wikipedia...."Rather than immediately identifying himself, Yoda tests Lozzo by initially presenting himself as a comical, backwater individual, deliberately provoking both Lozzo and R2-D2 (Kenny Baker)........ etc etc..."

Maybe......

Lol, na wasnt been rude it was a compliment.
I could sit there cross legged on the floor waiting for the information to be absorbed.

You've just got that ora of someone who knows loads actually interesting stuff rather than someone who just drones on about useless drivvle.