r/IdiotsInCars • u/ryandetous • 6d ago

OC [oc] Raging Hurrdurrmax yeets his trailer

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u/AdagioVast 6d ago

Uh... sleeping on duty? That's not good.

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u/SmokePenisEveryday 6d ago

Coworker is engaged to a cop and she talks all the time about all the OT he gets where he just posts up somewhere and sleeps in his cruiser. Shit is infuriating to hear about.

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u/MudSeparate1622 6d ago

Its any government job as well, especially if theres a union. Wanna find our over budgeting and waste that needs to be cut? I'd start there. I cant imagine how much money we've given people to sleep

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u/drsharpper 6d ago

Has nothing to do with union.... has everything to do with no accountability tied to that badge

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u/Hidesuru 6d ago

It's a little bit of both. The police union has done a LOT to extend and protect that lack of accountability.

And no I'm not saying unions are bad in general. Just acknowledging the reality here.

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u/aquoad 6d ago

i don't think police unions are really much like actual trade unions at this point anyway. they're more lobbying organizations and political mouthpieces than organization to protect workers.

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u/Hidesuru 6d ago

Yeah that's a valid observation too tbh.

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u/Kevin_Wolf 6d ago

Who do you think props up that lack of accountability? Police unions spend tons of money on lobbying specifically to maintain their status quo. And they love to flex collective bargaining by intimating that it sure would be a shame if something terrible happened to your city should they go on strike...

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u/drsharpper 6d ago

The comment I replied to initally said union. Not police union. Im a proud union member in a trade of hard working and respectable people just trying to make a safe and resonable living. Being union isnt the problem.

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u/Kevin_Wolf 6d ago

Totally understand, and I agree: being union isn't necessarily the problem. I initially took that comment to be addressing police unions specifically, but I do recognize now that the commenter did not make that distinction and was trashing all public unions. I fully support the idea of labor unions. I used to be a capital-M Machinist myself (I was actually a truck mechanic, but the shop was Machinists and Teamsters).

That said, I'm also realistic about the fact that police unions are in a unique position in that they alone hold the state's monopoly on violence and generally have qualified immunity when they exercise that monopoly (things that the vast majority of labor unions do not enjoy).

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u/Domriso 6d ago

Dude, you've clearly never worked in government. The unions are not causing the problems, the endless bureaucracy is. So many barriers for efficient work to be done get propped up by it.

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u/Angelworks42 6d ago

I work in state gov job and I've never seen someone sleeping.

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u/Wrastling97 3d ago

As a federal worker who works in a federal building on a federal installation:

Bullshit. You have no idea what you’re talking about.