Reply #223: You're right. I don't care ... [View All]

[RoyGBiv]

Here's the deal, genius.

I have a job. It's very stressful. I sometimes describe this job as 8 hours of arguing. I am disrespected by *everyone* I encounter to one degree or another. Many yell. Some spit, throw things, etc. I've been called every name you could think to call me and probably a lot you couldn't. I've been cussed out, at length, in at least nine different languages, three today.

And I'm the authority figure who could have these people who do this put in cuffs with a single word, no questions asked.

But if I ever, once came close to touching one of these individuals, much less using the words "get you killed" during these incidents, I would be fired, on the spot, no questions asked. And I could be sued. During orientation I was told the story of an employee last year who slapped a kid who had been screaming at him. He was fired. He was sued. He lost.

Being in a position of authority *requires* me to behave *better* than those over whom I have authority, else I no longer deserve to hold that authority. As a cop, or an authority figure of any variety, you have no business expecting people to treat you with anything even resembling manners. If you do expect that, you're in the wrong profession. If you demand it with shrill tirades and physical violence, you need to be permanently removed from those kinds of professions.