Job stress related alcoholism, drug abuse and mental health problems

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This is the stuff that is worth discussing and bringing up to the attention of the administration but few people seem to take it seriously. But if someone posted about some sex scandal or other embarrassing incident there would be 50 replies within a week. This is who we are.

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If I quit then you have to hire someone else to do the job but the job stress remains and the new person has to deal with it.

The problem is with the job stress itself and with the command staff who could care less about the deputies who are affected by it, and often suffer negative consequences. In addition to alcoholism (DUI), drug abuse, they can snap at work and turn violent on other staff and inmates (mental health problems). Such individuals clearly need treatment rather than termination because they turned violent, alcoholic, or drug addicted due to job stress. They did not have these conditions prior to being hired.

Also, command staff should look at the workplace conditions which causes such stress related problems and find ways to eliminate or mitigate them. However no such efforts have even been undertaken. Jail staff continues to be needlessly overexposed to job stress due to the blatant ignorance of the command staff and sheriff.

Ok Bro sit down on the couch and tell us your woes that cause you stress at work that the Sheriff and Command Satff dont care about. Let’s see you hate 12 hour shifts. You hate inmates. You dont like your supervisor because he got promoted due to being a suck azz. You dont like the free food provided to you in staff dining. The socks the Sheriff provides you as part of your uniform are itchy so you have buy your own. The free gym is open 24/7 but you dont like to work out. 25 years is too long to work for a pension and the Sheriff should pay you $75,000 a year with your GED. Oh yea, he does that now. BTW, you get 10% for nights and do half the work on nights. Yup, too much stress and its the Sheriff’s fault. Puzzy.

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Your got screened when you are hired.......No way you could develop a problem after that? Short of being involved in a deadly incident, your mental health is never reviewed again...... We shoot every year, lord knows we get training on some topics every year, but we never get our mental health checked again. Probably wouldnt be a bad idea to have a Agency mandated mental health screening periodically, maybe every five years or so. Not going to happen, plausible deniability is easier than addressing any defeciency you may have. You are on your own, and as we know people with addictions, will be in denial, and will not seek help, until something forces them to, or if they are ready for the help, usually after something traumatic happens. People will continue to hide their problems, thats just the way it is.

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Ok Bro sit down on the couch and tell us your woes that cause you stress at work that the Sheriff and Command Satff dont care about. Let’s see you hate 12 hour shifts. You hate inmates. You dont like your supervisor because he got promoted due to being a suck azz. You dont like the free food provided to you in staff dining. The socks the Sheriff provides you as part of your uniform are itchy so you have buy your own. The free gym is open 24/7 but you dont like to work out. 25 years is too long to work for a pension and the Sheriff should pay you $75,000 a year with your GED. Oh yea, he does that now. BTW, you get 10% for nights and do half the work on nights. Yup, too much stress and its the Sheriff’s fault. Puzzy.

Sheriff Bob Gualtieri approved this message.

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On a deep personal level does the sheriff or anyone in the executive staff care about each and every employee, nope. But this agency has resources available for its members. You have health insurance that provides for counseling or psychiatric services. You have EAP that provides free counseling services. The results of either of these options are not available to anyone at PCSO. You have access to CISM for free anytime you need it. So to say no resources are available is incorrect. And to say the stress of the job is no big deal is bullshit. If you see one dead child you have seen one too many. But I think the faggot who is bantering back and forth is some Cop Block ***** who is too scared to take direct action.

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I hear a lot of *****ing back and forth. Does anyone have ideas of what could help or make things better? What changes would you like to see implemented?

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I hear a lot of *****ing back and forth. Does anyone have ideas of what could help or make things better? What changes would you like to see implemented?

Oh, I can’t wait to hear this bullshit. Maybe a quiet room after stressful calls. Or a stress relief animal in the cruiser. Xanax dispenser? Free tampons for all the pussies? If you need “changes” you need to change your career. Help is there. But if the actual work is too much you have chosen wrong. That is part of the problem too.

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I hear a lot of *****ing back and forth. Does anyone have ideas of what could help or make things better? What changes would you like to see implemented?

Bob's apologists are responding with their usual idiotic sarcastic remarks, trying to shift the blame to the stressed out employees rather than dealing with the root causes of the problems. If you don't like it leave, etc. Easy to say when you are an office beta boy keyboard warrior. Typical political BS.

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Bob's apologists are responding with their usual idiotic sarcastic remarks, trying to shift the blame to the stressed out employees rather than dealing with the root causes of the problems. If you don't like it leave, etc. Easy to say when you are an office beta boy keyboard warrior. Typical political BS.

Well then what are your suggestions?

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Well then what are your suggestions?

They have no suggestions. They just like to *****. The only suggestion the idiot made was to mandat a mental health exam after your hired. Could you imagine the *****ing then if the sheriff mandated that every 3 years deputies had to go see a shrink and get mentally cleared. OMG the place would come unglued. Besides the shrinks are crazy anyway and it would no good. This is just bash and complain because that’s what we do. I like the idea of a Quiet Cruiser after stressed out calls. The Quiet Cruizer rolls up with a hot female deputy and I get to cuddle in the back.