Jake’s Life

Well the job was announced, and I got it. But according to the memo, I am a “Coproral,” not a Corporal. Oh well, better than nothing I suppose. The other person who applied is being oddly nice to me now, after weeks of being not so nice. Gee, I wonder why.

Next week I may be back in my own district, but I’m not sure yet. We still have one or two more folks to hire and train. I hope it goes by fast, I miss my district.

Random Pierce County goodness:

I’ve been working nine to five lately, as opposed to my eight to six or nine to seven, which is weird. It seems as though it’s impossible to get anything done in eight hours at work. Once I start, it’s almost over. One good thing is that traffic going home is not bad at 0500. Too bad I don’t ever get to leave at 0500.

I have some of my firearms qual today, the easy test. Pencil and paper, no guns.

I interviewed for a Corporal position last week and think I did fairly well. One other applicant…has good potential as well. They said they will post the decision by the end of this week. End of this discussion.

All this week I’m in training in one form or another. I was trained last night, and for the rest of the week I’m training someone else. Next week I start school, the same day as my written test for the firearms course. October 25th I do the live fire course. I’ve done them before, and they’re pretty easy when you practice for them. I have a few weeks until the live fire so I’m going to try to hit Wade’s at least twice between now and then. I am confident that I can pass right now if I had to do it tomorrow, but I’m always up for bettering my skills. Hopefully someday I will be able to perform complicated surgeries with a .45.

There’s a lot of tension at work lately, due to a few reasons I believe. A friend of mine who was hired ended up dating a supervisor of ours within the first few weeks of being out on the road. Call me insensitive, but I was against it. Of course, people tried to rationalize it by saying I was jealous of her and that I really liked him, or that I am an angry single. I just thought that it wasn’t right for both of them and since I knew it wouldn’t last very long that it would make working together awkward. Of course it didn’t last for more than a week or two, depending on which one you ask, and now the supervisor doesn’t even look at the other one. He goes out of his way to lie and avoid her now. Combine all of this with a room full of other officers and what do you get? Awkward.

I get a voicemail saying that I was right…that this always happens and that as soon as she figures it out she sees what I was saying. What changed between a few weeks ago and now? Probably not a hell of a whole lot, unless you count emotionally clouded viewpoints. Back then it was all about rationalizing what they were doing instead of actually looking at the situtation. Now this supervisor is in the crosshairs of a few people, and all he did was hand them ammo with this. I hate to just stand back and watch shots get taken at him, but there’s not much else I can do.

Oh yeah, and relations between both of them and I have been shaky at best lately. If someone is not going to listen to anything I have to say, which to me is taking all of the care and concern behind the words and throwing them back at me, why should I talk to them anyways? Anyone? Yes, you in the back…No, that’s a stupid reason.