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Fun In The Workplace (Are We Allowed To Have That?!?!)…

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So, some ask me sometimes what it’s like to work at a police detachment.  “It can’t be all seriousness, is it?” they ask.  Well, umm, no.  It can be, but we have a little fun too – yup, usually when the chain-of-command are nowhere to be found, LOL.

Frequently, let’s just say that “random gremlins” have taken to putting up motivational posters (and perhaps demotivational ones too, LOL) in various places in the detachment.  Or, e-mailing or texting sometimes work related memes and such.  Usually, there’s always gripes about the chain-of-command (not everyone agrees on everything all of the time), or about members of the public complaining, or other day-to-day trivialities.  And yes, some dark humour definitely comes into play.

Here’s an assortment of some of my recent favourites (at least the ones that I feel I can share, LOL).  Enjoy…

Then, there’s those fun memes that we text each other from time to time to have a chuckle (usually at the expense of ourselves)…

And then, when we’re REALLY bored, it’s always fun to crank up some tunes and have a rave strobe party in the patrol office…

…Or mess with the keyboards of people who are two-finger typers, and then they can’t figure out why their spelling errors shoot through the roof…

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LOL.

Cheers all.

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It’s Been a Long Couple o’ Months…

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…and I had a shitty summer.  As some close friends and work-mates know, my summer took a dive just before the first of July.  Some various family, personal, and work crises all came to a head, including a lot of the same through my wife’s workplace and family also.  Lots of pressure that had been building across various family issues since my Dad passed away in February of last year came boiling up.  I nearly lost my family, to say the least, and was rhetorically “cut off at the knees”, so to speak.

But, that said, the support and love I’ve received has been overwhelming.  My wife and I have been granted immense understanding through our respective workplaces (herself as a nurse, me as a military policeman), and it’s allowed us the time and space to get everything in order again.  I haven’t so much as checked in on FOH or here more than two or three times total in the past three months.

And so, I’m moving forward with everything again and “Lights, Sirens and Cigars”.  It’s been just over three months to the day since my last posts.  I got lots of great feedback about my post for “Freezing Your Ass Off At A Gun Range…”  Glad people liked it – more work-related fun to come.  Gotta get back into the swing of things again…

Cheers all.