How can we get more work out of uninspired officers? Here's a bright idea from the southwest side:
- The commander of 10 had a meeting the other day with all the supervisors of that building. From what we were told by sgts at roll call and how we interpreted it, the fixed posts aka "the box" that the district mans are basically punishment and/or extortion. We were told that more boxes may be on the way, but the way to avoid that is to produce more numbers. WTF? Way to motivate your troops commander. Mostly everybody hates sitting on these things because they're boring, you can't leave without proper relief and you're a sitting target. The more boxes we have to man will also mean more work for the rest of the watch since those cars will be down and unavailable for assignment. Oh, and that will probably mean less people will be able to take time due.
Have none of these asshats ever laid eyes on a motivational book? Or taken a speech writing course? Taken a course in Logic? Or studied the basics of debate where you try to convince the audience of the correctness of your side of the argument? Here's a bright idea - read Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. The big words will probably frighten most of the command staff in general and Pena in particular, but....
Ah crap, who are we kidding? The command staff pick up a book? We might as well braid the whips they beat us with already. We have got to stop drinking grandpa's homemade liquor.