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Originally Posted by Talk Host
If you are a carpenter, you are expected to build things. If you are a doctor,your job is to treat patients. If you are a dog catcher, your job is to catch dogs. If you are a police officer, your job is to enforce the law.
If you are a police chief and have 20 officers. 18 of them issue about 50 tickets a month, but two of them issue 5 or none, who is not doing his job?
Every job has quotas, more specifically productivity requirements to meet. In my broadcasting profession, my job was to get listeners. If I hadn't met my quota, I would have been fired.
If a newspaper carrier delivers only 50 of his 75 papers, he's not doing his job.
If a bulldozer operator moves only part of the dirt, he's gone.
I believe that there is an understandable confusion between quotas and job performance.
What would you think of a cop who sat on the side of the road and watched speeders whiz by and did nothing about it.
One more question. For those who grind an axe about speed enforcement.
At what speed above the limit should a person receive a ticket, or should that decision be left up to the individual driver?
JLK
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Talk Host I agree with the aforementioned but many of the job position you cite may not create a conflict because they have quotas or goals.
Others however do because the goal becomes the goal. I had a New York ropper give me a ticket for going 60 mph in a 55mph. It didn't matter that I was just entering the on ramp and trying to gain enough speed to merge with traffic. the guy sat right there at the underpass waiting. Was this guy ensuring that he made his monthly goal? The insurance company I was with had strict underwriting rules and that one ticket forced me to pay higher premuims I have great respect for the work police do but again there are some guys out there that abuse their powers.. I would accept that in my chosen profession and so why would I accept it with another