sir Glen A! lol. great photos. Those grapes still look good enough to eat too.
Hey I forgot to tell you that my wife started her jailers job yesterday.
sir Glen A! lol. great photos. Those grapes still look good enough to eat too.
Hey I forgot to tell you that my wife started her jailers job yesterday.
Wow. So, actually in the jail with the prisoners? What do they have her doing? She have stories already? What did she think? I mean, you could just tell me. :)
Oh it's so interesting to learn how the whole operation works and she is really liking it so far. At first she was a little apprehensive because she was supposed to be trained by an older woman and be trained in the womens section first.
But, the lady who they wanted her to be trained by is out with pneumonia so they sent her to the mens section. However, so far it's been fine.
They have to take a count every 30 minutes of all the prisoners, which seems crazy but the entire operation is a well oiled machine and very efficient so that must be necessary.
they also have to escort the commissary deliveries and all the meal deliveries.
Those deliveries are done by the trusted inmates so she just has to open doors and the food openings and things like that.
But they're short of people so the head guy has been training her but he keeps getting pulled off the floor to take care of other things so that left her by herself doing the counts and other things on her first day! lol.
So it's a little crazy and there's tons of stuff to learn. All the self-defense things like how to get out of holds and all that kind of thing they don't get taught until they've been there for 90 days which makes no sense.
It would be logical to give them that training before they have to be in with the prisoners but they don't. And the women, by themselves, have to go into these cells with 6 or 8 men and no cameras!
They wouldn't have that set up in a prison, this is just a jail where people are doing their short time sentences or are awaiting their sentencing so they know if they get into trouble it's seriously hurts their case.
So far that's the only thing we don't like about it. But there are many ways to advance and she is already meeting high ranking people in charge and people with influence, which is the main reason she took this job in the first place. And best of all, she said all the people there are wonderful and friendly and it has a real family feel to it.
I'm glad you asked, I like talking about it. I've mentioned that she started a new job to quite a few people and no one has even asked what the job is or how it was going, that kinda surprised me.
re: head guy training her
Welcome to the world of government work. Sounds familiar, except, no inmates. Seems like they're always short on staff, and unfortunately, there's generally just one head person who can take care of everything. So, I'm not surprised.
Unfortunately, I'm not surprised about the self-defense either, though I am in total agreement with you about it coming first. But it sounds like they're willing to take the risk in the beginning to see if she'll keep on for those 90 days without quitting. Don't know what the turnover rate is there, but if they're shorthanded, sounds like they're might at least be people retiring on a regular basis, or getting transfers.
Jail then is a good place to start, if it makes people behave a little better. It's also good to hear the people she works with are nice. nothing worse than having to deal with inmates and co-workers.
What shift is she working? Will that last, or is it just for training. Usually the new people, the way I understand it, get the worst hours to start.
Cool that she's able to rub elbows with the mucky mucks. Sounds like the table is being set. :)
haha! the mucky mucks? is that what they call the Brass? The bosses?
Yeah the turnover rate is high for some reason. The head guy training her is leaving Friday to go to work for an insurance company and they said most of the turnover with the women is because they get too friendly and fall for one of the men! lol. stupid females!
Let yourself get conned by a con. And in dealing with ex-cons over the years we've seen it over and over because they are such great liars with such emotional stories and can cry on demand! lol.
That ain't happening with Mrs. J oh no. She's the strongest person I know and she don't fall for anything, and she is guided by the Holy Spirit.
Plus the first thing they told her was not to believe a word any inmate says! lol. I feel sorry for the ones telling the truth, if there are any.
Oh, in the men's section they said the biggest reason for turnover was not following the rules like checking on some inmates every 20 minutes and the others every 30 minutes.
It's all with electronic readers that you put up to each cell but you also have to check it off on a chart and people would try to get out of it and then check it off on paper and they'd get caught because of the electronic record so they'd be fired. hard to believe they'd be that dumb.
Since the shifts are 12 hours there's only 2 shifts, 6 am to 6 pm and visa versa. Her training is on both shifts and after 6 weeks she should be trained and they will give her a permanent shift, she wants and needs days. She has to get up at 3:30 but she always gets up at 4 or 4:30 anyway.
But she's always had problems at night. Like by 8 pm she's falling asleep!