Saturday, November 06, 2004

Well, starting Monday, I’m an office bitch. I’m still on the traffic unit, but I’ll be flying a desk. Did I get injured and put on light duty? Did I finally snap and pull that annoying, shrill bitch who told me she hoped I had a shitty day for giving her a ticket through her car window and beat her senseless? Did those pictures of me naked in a hot-tub full of lime jello with an underage donkey finally surface? No, no, and not yet.

You see, the traffic unit was originally created as not only an enforcement unit, but an educational one. Programs for high schools and the public, press releases, informational pamphlets in conjunction with concentrated patrols, etcetera. After a while, though, the unit ended up just writing tickets- that’s easier than creating educational programs, after all. The Sheriff, however, doesn’t really care about tickets- the educational aspect was his deal. So, after a review of the unit, he decided that it should start getting back to the reason it was created- safer roads through enforcement and education. Which means that the unit has to create all those programs, which involves researching what other traffic units have done, decide what elements we want to use and what we want in each program, and then create the programs and actually present them. That’s going to take some time, organization, and computer time. And since I’m the only one othe traffic unit who can turn on a computer, I’ve been drafted to create the educational programs.

Which is ok by me, actually. I’ve been getting a little burnt out on doing nothing but writing tickets. Wearing a polo shirt instead of a kevlar vest for a while will be a nice change.