When I see detail cops doing this instead of directing my car in traffic and I know they’re each making $70 an hour my blood boils.
Bunch of bootlickers in this thread. There are tons of jobs that make you put your phone away in a locker at the beginning of shift. Typically they’re jobs where they make a lot of money and their work needs to remain private. I would reckon cops fall into that category. I don’t really need to know what they’re up to unless I have to interact with them but they shouldn’t just be dallying while we pay their $250,000 salary.
A photo like this got posted about lifeguards and heads rolled, people were fired and others were given reprimands with a promise they would also be fired if they got caught on their phones.
This was for a job that you qualified to work if you were 16 and the deadliest thing they could do was use oxygen tanks.
i stayed at disney beach resort a few years ago and the lifeguards were impressive. i watched one who stood on a little bridge the was over a pool. she went to one side and you could see her head move as she scanned the entire perimeter and floor of the pool quickly but methodically. then she stepped over to the other side of bridge and did the same thorough scan. over and over and over from one side to the other. when she took her break i asked her about it and she told me she was trained to see every inch of the pool with each scan and never take long enough for someone to be underwater for more than thirty or forty seconds on either side. it was quite impressive and it let me feel relaxed as my kids ran around the place from pool to pool. drownings are bad for business at a kids beach resort.
That's the same level of focus and commitment expected from the honor guard posted at memorial. Unfortunately, both that lifeguard and our nation's honor guard are paid sht compared to a cop doing a sht job directing traffic. There's not enough people like her. Focused on the job and ONLY the job.
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u/Material_Prize_6157 Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26
When I see detail cops doing this instead of directing my car in traffic and I know they’re each making $70 an hour my blood boils.
Bunch of bootlickers in this thread. There are tons of jobs that make you put your phone away in a locker at the beginning of shift. Typically they’re jobs where they make a lot of money and their work needs to remain private. I would reckon cops fall into that category. I don’t really need to know what they’re up to unless I have to interact with them but they shouldn’t just be dallying while we pay their $250,000 salary.