The Thickening Slows
There has been little time lately, but I suppose an update is in order. In typical government fashion, a minor glitch did not allow me to be on the "cert list" for the last officer position. It was a combination of bureaucracy and an innocent error on my part. Needless to say, any one who has over 12 years of law enforcement experience shouldn't have trouble making a cert list...but the government has their own rules, cest la vie! I will say that many of the HR people have gone out of their way to help me understand the selection process, not that I agree with a lot of that crap, but any place that has a 2 or 3 pronged system for even getting an interview, will have some issues. I have recently finished the final rough draft of our new SOP and have been invited to all the Officer training, even though I am not one of them yet. There is a consensus from the "head shed" that my wait will be short one another position opens. One officer is going to a county department and another is going to the "corporate office" in D.C. Dates are not firmed up yet, so I wait!
As June idles by, the offer from my previous employer has not yet materialized despite the assertions of my former boss. His boss just got a promotion, and that leave administrative gaps, which in turn, create larger daily "grunt" work gaps. The carrot dangles still! So I am presently in a holding pattern, which isn't bad. Nothing happens quickly in the government, mostly {I believe} because it would cause thousands of employees to become confused almost instantaenously. The decision now will seem to fall on whomever gets me an offer first. The officer job issues are not as horrid as I thought {rotations by shift also go by days off, and rotating every 8 weeks not 16, still the great benes and pay}. So I am a little more free to make my decision.
I will try an be more dilligent in the future, things are getting into a more regualr pattern around here, just a few more loose ends.
There has been little time lately, but I suppose an update is in order. In typical government fashion, a minor glitch did not allow me to be on the "cert list" for the last officer position. It was a combination of bureaucracy and an innocent error on my part. Needless to say, any one who has over 12 years of law enforcement experience shouldn't have trouble making a cert list...but the government has their own rules, cest la vie! I will say that many of the HR people have gone out of their way to help me understand the selection process, not that I agree with a lot of that crap, but any place that has a 2 or 3 pronged system for even getting an interview, will have some issues. I have recently finished the final rough draft of our new SOP and have been invited to all the Officer training, even though I am not one of them yet. There is a consensus from the "head shed" that my wait will be short one another position opens. One officer is going to a county department and another is going to the "corporate office" in D.C. Dates are not firmed up yet, so I wait!
As June idles by, the offer from my previous employer has not yet materialized despite the assertions of my former boss. His boss just got a promotion, and that leave administrative gaps, which in turn, create larger daily "grunt" work gaps. The carrot dangles still! So I am presently in a holding pattern, which isn't bad. Nothing happens quickly in the government, mostly {I believe} because it would cause thousands of employees to become confused almost instantaenously. The decision now will seem to fall on whomever gets me an offer first. The officer job issues are not as horrid as I thought {rotations by shift also go by days off, and rotating every 8 weeks not 16, still the great benes and pay}. So I am a little more free to make my decision.
I will try an be more dilligent in the future, things are getting into a more regualr pattern around here, just a few more loose ends.
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