You mean when they have signs stating free coffee for senior citizens, they are not trying to bribe them???
You mean when they have signs stating free coffee for senior citizens, they are not trying to bribe them???
It's payback for services rendered for our community.
Fireman and paramedics get plenty in this town too Sushi.Yup. I live in the State with Obama.
So what do the firemen and paramedics get? What about public works? All they get for serving our community is a paycheck.
"Serving Our Community"..... what DOES that mean? Waiters serve tables. Cops in our community "serve" and get a base of around $45K plus the best benefits.... plus a pension. Not too shabby. I rather buy the guy shlepping pallets.... working shitty hours and trying to survive for minimum wage a cup of joe. He NEEDS it.
Good point foggyThis may help you a bit to understand the differance...
If you put a public notice up that stated that the "Police Officers or Soldiers in Uniform get free coffee and donuts", it would not be a bribe, because it is public and not under the table as a "Wink, wink" would be. That way the officer is not expecting anything other than coffee and donuts, and you are not asking for anything, just a statement. Any benefit that you would get from that is totally ethical from that point and unsolicited.
It may however, be against the Police Department "policy", but I really doubt it would be an issue if it is out in the open and not in the shadows. The only complaints would be from other venders that don't have a clue.
I've been known to say when they remind us about a senior discount I say" quit 'cha bragg 'in! Around here we're all equal."You mean when they have signs stating free coffee for senior citizens, they are not trying to bribe them???
Fireman and paramedics get plenty in this town too Sushi.
I rub shoulders with them, and a lot of them are the husbands of the nurses I work with.
Free drinks at The Rustic ( a pub here in town) on their off hours, of course, and meals on the house.
It all depends on your city and what's going on.
I think smaller towns tend to take care of their own, if you know what I mean.
This ain't Chicaggie, baby.. lolNow those are Perks!!! Crikey!!!!
For what it is worth, most police officers don't "Hang" with the general pubic as a rule. They all go to the same bar, restaurant and the like on their off duty time. The job is such that most people can't relate to someone that is in law enforcement and how they are always "On". You may have dated one, but you never got to walk the walk you might say. You may have gotten to know a bunch of cops, but they will not let you into their world.
I've been known to say when they remind us about a senior discount I say" quit 'cha bragg 'in! Around here we're all equal."
Foggy that is some heavy shit....this doesn't happen all the time but when it does it never goes away. There are still some things that Redneck won't "go there" As his wife I just keep'im and love 'imSushi,
I came home one night after a drunk killed a family of four, gave CPR to a five year old boy that was the best candidate to survive, he didn't and when I got home I went out into the woods and threw up. The drunk didn't have scratch on him...
Shusi, you need to learn what a real police officer does, how he lives, the stress of knowing he might get shot just because of the uniform he is wearing, and stop watching so much Andy Griffith. Barny is just a comedian, not a real Police officer, even if he is your idol.
So what do you want me to do? grab you by the shirt, and stuff the .68 in your pocket, and yell in your face to not try and bribe me like that again??? Or maybe, realizing your motives, just not come back there even though there is free coffee, because I know your intentions.you are killing me, yes it is a bribe. I think my coffee was $0.68. sixty eight cents or 68 dollars is ethically the same thing. A bribe. If you charge every one the same thing and more cops hang out becasue you have donuts and coffee that is a morale problem for the police department, but not a bribe. if you give it to them for extra protection......hell I am tired of saying it.
So what do the firemen and paramedics get? What about public works? All they get for serving our community is a paycheck.
Or getting thrown up on while doing C.P.R. Or the perk of being told by the creep that you are arresting that when he bails out, he is going to find your family and do vile things to them.
Or how about pulling over a speeder. And finding out that it is the wife of a prominent local citizen. Who is embarrassed to be pulled over, even though she was clearly speeding. (do you know who I am?...) so on the way home she stops at the police station and tells the sergeant how the "rude officer belittled her, and should have waited to pull her over out of the public view. You have to write a memo explaining yourself. And of course you have to be spoken to. Which is documented. To assure the good citizen that this "problem" has been corrected. For doing what you are paid to do. Nice perk.
The same around here. They get comp coffee. and sometimes meals if there is a real big incident. Its appreciation for doing things that people in other jobs couldn't or wouldn't do. And most of EMS around here are volunteer. They get out of bed at 3 in the morning to pick up some drunk who fell off a barstool and broke his ankle. And take him to the hospital. Or whatever. And then get back home, and try to get a little sleep before they have to be to work. They all give something.
I spent 15 years as a Volunteer Fire/rescue. I have spent several nights fighting "big" fires. At times, McDonalds employees went in a couple hours early to make breakfast sandwiches & sent boxes of them to us. Local grocery stores sent their inventory of Gatoraid to us.
As a volunteer, at those times, I was paid $6.00 for those 7 or 8 hours of fighting the "RED DRAGGON".
Some people get out of the wrong side of the bed every day.
Sushi, Sushi,....my friend...let me tell you a true story that will clear up the difference between a public service worker shlepp and a public servant that puts his life on the line."Serving Our Community"..... what DOES that mean? Waiters serve tables. Cops in our community "serve" and get a base of around $45K plus the best benefits.... plus a pension. Not too shabby. I rather buy the guy shlepping pallets.... working shitty hours and trying to survive for minimum wage a cup of joe. He NEEDS it.
Hell! I'd buy him a steak supper!