Short Staffed

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I keep reading about being the agency being short staffed but what I don’t get is why they are preventing people from crossing over from jail to road. Lots of good Deputies have jumped ship to TPD or another agency since command staff wouldn’t let them cross. Yeah I get it, the jail is short staffed. But guess what, if you don’t let them cross over to road, the agency as a whole will be short staffed.

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I keep reading about being the agency being short staffed but what I don’t get is why they are preventing people from crossing over from jail to road. Lots of good Deputies have jumped ship to TPD or another agency since command staff wouldn’t let them cross. Yeah I get it, the jail is short staffed. But guess what, if you don’t let them cross over to road, the agency as a whole will be short staffed.

Let’s not forget about all the early retirements.

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Let’s not forget about all the early retirements.

Short staffed since 1984.

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Short staffed since 1984.

Not an excuse. Failure to properly deploy us in a safe and mentally sustainable manner since 1984.

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the process to get hired takes forever as well. I've been pushing to expedite my process.

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The balls of someone complaining before they even get hired. The newer generations never cease to amaze me. Listen here, if you are disgruntled now, you it will only get worse. You should probably withdraw your application. Don’t take me wrong, I loved my career, but then again, I had a better attitude.

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The balls of someone complaining before they even get hired. The newer generations never cease to amaze me. Listen here, if you are disgruntled now, you it will only get worse. You should probably withdraw your application. Don’t take me wrong, I loved my career, but then again, I had a better attitude.

No one is applying.

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The poster wrote that they were trying to expedite theirs. What am I missing?

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This agency has too far of a disconnect between the front line workers that take on all the liability, danger and mental health destruction, and it’s high level leaders.

While they are busy promoting each other, giving each other plaques, and setting up their cool new offices, the forget a lot about where they came if they did at all or were fast tracked too fast to have mastered the front lines. This is why morale is dead and many of us have outgrown their stagnant positions.

They forget that the jail... SUCKS!
They forget that the main, if not the only reason, anyone applies to the jail, is to get to patrol. Patrol sucks too but less.
They fail to realize that we are humans. Humans move towards the positive. In this POS career and climate, especially this agency, there is no positive, so we move to the less negative. See there is no good or bad here. There is no right or wrong at this job. There is only bad or very bad. There is only wrong or less wrong. For you FTO’s and supervisors, you are even told to never give more that a 4 on evals. So it’s easier to fire us later. “Good jobs” do not exist. Positive feedback does not exist. Positive reinforcement does not exist. Only reduce the negative exposure. For that reason and how they fail to see the hierarchy that keeps its employees interested. The main reason people stay working here is hope. Hope to progress and movement away from the most stress sources. Not pay, maybe a little status. Movement from what really sucks to what sucks the least. Nobody applies to be a detective because they want to investigate. They apply to get off patrol. Detention wants out of the stinking asss emotionally destructive soul draining POD. It’s that simple.

The jail sucks, patrol sucks less, detective even less, corporal even lesser, and so on... And that my friend is the path at this lost cause of a career. That’s why we transfer and promote. Our leaders fail to use that phenomenon to their advantage. which is why they can’t get jail applicants, why great detention deputies are trapped and quit.

Our toxic police culture keeps many of us from admitting this to each other or even ourselves.

All that being said, if they gave a crap, detention would made to be a strong food in the door for patrol. This would help with the the hiring crisis. In the end, our short staffing is not a priority. When this agency wants something, it goes after it. Think back how fast they put together the deployment for the RNC. Think back on the implementation of body cameras.

It’s business as usual at recruitment and training. Still getting those steps around the building and long lunches.

Who’s fault? Our fault. For making due. For giving it 300% at the cost of our mental health and longevity. If they gave a crap about the goals of detention deputies, burn out, our plans to progress to the less negative, or better yet, reduce the negativity... All this would sort itself out. Best part is it rolls down hill. To the citizens. They feel our stress and frustration. They don’t understand it’s origins so they write us off as not caring and bad.

30 years of getting sent to calls that require the absorption of peoples emotions and the managing of highly irate people with little to no chance to transfer? Screw that. That’s why so many leave. Add this new anti cop mentality and they really want to trap people in the jail with no hope to transfer out?

We do need reform. From the top to the bottom. Not from the bottom to the top.

For you guys working over capacity in hopes to get noticed, I wish you luck. May your burnout not affect your health and may you have a back up career lined up. Because nobody will notice. Find one detention deputy that worked so hard, he or she was noticed, pulled aside, and told... “We can sure use you on patrol”. Hahaha Scam. Cheaper to replace a burned out worn out deputy.

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Let me add to this paragraph.

30 years of getting sent to calls that require the absorption of peoples emotions and the managing of highly irate people 30 min before going home after 11 and a half hours at 5:30am when you are mentally and emotionally drained with only 2 day shift units logging on that are already headed to holding garbage calls. With minimal chances to transfer out unless you are one of the favorites. Screw that. That’s why so many leave. Add this new anti cop mentality and they really want to trap people in the jail with no hope to transfer out?