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Overall the article is pretty right on, although their numbers are bit off since time has progressed since then. For example, it lists my unit as suffering a staff shortage of 31% when now, the actual number probably ranges from 36-38%.
Some of the quotes in the article really pissed me off though:
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Shortage of staffing just means we have people working overtime, so we're not short of guards during the shift. Some of them may be pulling a double shift," he said. "We'd love to have enough people not to do that, but it's really not a very physically trying job, sometimes, just guarding prisoners, especially if they just ... work 12 hours (in a shift). A lot of them are capable of doing that, and they need the overtime, because it's not the highest-paying job in the world.
Not physically trying? Well that sorry bastard can bring his ass over to the Coffield Unit where each wing has 4 stories and my rotunda bosses have to damn near run up and down stairs to keep up with the activities because we're short enough they're having to pull the weight of 2 officers.
Plus its ok to work the dog shit out of them because the regular pay sucks and they need the money? Get bent.
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These are not people who are working 90-hour weeks," she said. "We don't do that to our staff.
Nope, just a number of my staff works 84 hour weeks. Yeah, thats better.
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said officers get scheduled breaks and a lunch period.
Really? Well shit, sign me up for that farm because it sounds like paradise!!! Seriously, I don't short my officers a break, they deserve it and I do whatever I can to get them one. But staffing can effect the ability for a break and we have "johnnied" officers before. That means sending them a paper sack lunch out of the kitchen, to eat on their duty post.
Yeah, I've got some polite letter writing to do. Well, I need to be polite, hopefully I'll succeed.
/rant off
Heheh.
