borrowed my sisters car to drive to the gym yesterday evening and on the way home i got pulled over by a policeman. he strolled around the car, took my details, discovered i was who i said i was and that the car was not stolen, and then gave me a £50 fine for driving with my fog lights on and told me i had to visit a police station with in the next 7 days to prove i had insurance and MOT. what a cunt. its like he was just looking to give someone a ticket for the most trivial thing he could possibly find. he also spoke in that patronizing manner that police practice.
why the fuck are you patronizing me and talking down to me?. if anyone is going to be patronizing you would think it would be me. after all, i am the one with the engineering degree that works for a hedge fund and makes at least triple what you earn. even then i did not talk down to you like you were a piece of shit (which you are), and you did to me.
anyways, after the initial anger subsided as i drove off it did get me thinking. i am lucky that £50 is not much money to me, but what if i had been a security guard or cleaner that was just going about their business and was driving to or back from work. £50 would be a days wages and they would have lost it just because some little dick mother fucker wanted to ticket someone. foglights on. fuck me!. i will take a day of your work for that.
having seen the shit the guy at work who is a special constable on the weekends does, it just reinforces what i thought of the police. its just for people that are servants of power, who do as they are told, who think they are important and who are selected for that position because they dont question the stupidity of things. if you are obedient without a mind of your own, then join the metropolitan police.
on the subject of the copper at work, i was told he had been bitter at not being promoted at work after being there for 8 years. to be fair he works hard and know his shit, but he lacks maturity. that was proved last week when he was supposed to fly out with our team leader to one of the international offices. he was supposed to be there for 6 days. he got there and stayed 1 day and changed his flight and flew back the next day because he was not feeling well. thats an £8000 plane ticket wasted and our team leader left in the shit to do all the work himself. he did not even tell the teamleader he was going to go. he just left. you better have something pretty fucking seriously wrong with you to pull some shit like that.
needless to say, he committed professional suicide as everyone was talking about the stunt he pulled and he has plummeted in the eyes of the team leader who had been grooming him for his role when he leaves in 6 months. he is always whining about wanting to leave and threatening to get another job, but he has been there 8 years and he has never worked anywhere else. he is inexperienced at dealing with people and can be a little unprofessional. he temporarily was heading up the desktop support team and in the first week he threatened them all of them with a written warning because someone missed something on the morning checks. he did not endear himself to any of them.
he might be top dog where he currently is and have the comfort of 8 years of infrastructure knowledge but you dont act and pull shit like that at a new job. they will fire your ass. he thinks he is being shat on by the company. he does not realize that they are actually accommodating him and making concessions to him he would not get elsewhere. hope your mortgage is not too big because you might miss some payments with your attitude, and if you got the stones then get out there in the market and lets see how long you can cut it being someone else's bitch. the impression i get is that he will be difficult to manage somewhere else and no one will want to be managed by him. thats kind of backing yourself into a corner.
he is back next week. if he has any self awareness he will be quiet as a mouse. if he is in cunt copper mode, he will be acting normal as if nothing happened. that bravado might fool your copper mates but me and the team leader have been doing this shit for a long time and we have seen plenty of your sort before.
