Specifically and generally, how about that?
Specifically, an (insurance) industry news source who very directly states that I cannot mention them or quote them without paying them cash included a story in a May newsletter which recently arrived at my desk.
Apparently, if you get punished at work for doing something wrong, and feel humiliated or stressed, that stress is compensible under workers' compensation law.
It seems that in 1989, a police officer was investigated for domestic violence. Given his situation, he was placed on administrative leave (with pay) until the investigation was complete. The humiliation the officer allegedly felt having to turn in his badge and gun, and then pass by his colleagues on his way out of the building, apparently created enough stress to qualify as a workplace injury.
As a specific complaint, I find it amazing that police officers, who rely on You-should-have-thought-of-that-before-arousing-my-suspicion logic to do their very jobs, don't have to think about the ramifications before choosing to not settle their marital disputes in an orderly fashion. At my job, I can be fired for being falsely arrested, and I'm not so allegedly important as a lawkeeper. On the other hand, I can apparently handle my marriage so badly as to require police intervention, and then get workers' compensation when my inability to handle my marriage damages the credibility of my job performance.
The Bigger Picture involves the idea of what one chooses to do for a living, as a representation, ad nauseam. What of those people who take advantage of their positions? Sure, Bob came in here with a gun and threatened us before taking off with less than a thousand dollars cash, but he's going to go to jail for a lot longer time than Joe, our accountant, who defrauded us, wrecked our pension plan, and embezzled millions. You know, a crime is a crime, but what if it's your accountant stealing from you? Your gynecologist abusing you? Your limousine driver getting drunk before taking you to the airport? What about the cops? If your job is to uphold the law, as such, what does it say of your credibility as a police officer--I speak not of a person's credibility as a human being--if you're, say, smoking crack (Tulia, Texas, for a recent example I've raised at Exosci), planting evidence (Rampart), killing to hide other of your crimes (Rampart), or beating your wife (the current newsletter I'm not allowed to cite at risk of financial difficulties)?
This is no grander idea than we threw at President Clinton for his infidelities. Some noted that he was CiC of the armed forces, and thus should be subject to the same adultery laws he enforced in 1997. Of course, the liberals pointed out that the conservative inquisitors, by and large, had mistresses, too, so who were they to complain?
If someone cons your daughter into believing they care, take advantage, and leave her to whatever miseries come, would it irk you any more to know the letch in question was a psychologist trained to manipulate people's ideas?
Every year, at the end of the fiscal period, you will see ambulances and fire trucks wandering aimlessly around cities, trying to burn up their fuel budget, lest it be cut.
If I assert that the Drug War causes crime, we might wonder if it's about money, except that I'm quite sure there are easier ways to get ahead in life than exploiting your power as a cop.
Is one who upholds the law in exchange for money committing any worse an act than the average crook if they break the law for their own advantage? Is one who exploits their chosen position in life to a criminal benefit committing any more or less severe an act than the random person committing that crime?
If a child is exploited walking home from school ...? As opposed to being exploited by, say, the nanny?
Big or small, the idea's there ... I don't expect it to be entirely cohesive. Mostly I wanted to whine though, about all the wolves who insist on their right to be thought of as sheep.
thanx all,
Tiassa
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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.--Denis Diderot
Specifically, an (insurance) industry news source who very directly states that I cannot mention them or quote them without paying them cash included a story in a May newsletter which recently arrived at my desk.
Apparently, if you get punished at work for doing something wrong, and feel humiliated or stressed, that stress is compensible under workers' compensation law.
It seems that in 1989, a police officer was investigated for domestic violence. Given his situation, he was placed on administrative leave (with pay) until the investigation was complete. The humiliation the officer allegedly felt having to turn in his badge and gun, and then pass by his colleagues on his way out of the building, apparently created enough stress to qualify as a workplace injury.
As a specific complaint, I find it amazing that police officers, who rely on You-should-have-thought-of-that-before-arousing-my-suspicion logic to do their very jobs, don't have to think about the ramifications before choosing to not settle their marital disputes in an orderly fashion. At my job, I can be fired for being falsely arrested, and I'm not so allegedly important as a lawkeeper. On the other hand, I can apparently handle my marriage so badly as to require police intervention, and then get workers' compensation when my inability to handle my marriage damages the credibility of my job performance.
The Bigger Picture involves the idea of what one chooses to do for a living, as a representation, ad nauseam. What of those people who take advantage of their positions? Sure, Bob came in here with a gun and threatened us before taking off with less than a thousand dollars cash, but he's going to go to jail for a lot longer time than Joe, our accountant, who defrauded us, wrecked our pension plan, and embezzled millions. You know, a crime is a crime, but what if it's your accountant stealing from you? Your gynecologist abusing you? Your limousine driver getting drunk before taking you to the airport? What about the cops? If your job is to uphold the law, as such, what does it say of your credibility as a police officer--I speak not of a person's credibility as a human being--if you're, say, smoking crack (Tulia, Texas, for a recent example I've raised at Exosci), planting evidence (Rampart), killing to hide other of your crimes (Rampart), or beating your wife (the current newsletter I'm not allowed to cite at risk of financial difficulties)?
This is no grander idea than we threw at President Clinton for his infidelities. Some noted that he was CiC of the armed forces, and thus should be subject to the same adultery laws he enforced in 1997. Of course, the liberals pointed out that the conservative inquisitors, by and large, had mistresses, too, so who were they to complain?
If someone cons your daughter into believing they care, take advantage, and leave her to whatever miseries come, would it irk you any more to know the letch in question was a psychologist trained to manipulate people's ideas?
Every year, at the end of the fiscal period, you will see ambulances and fire trucks wandering aimlessly around cities, trying to burn up their fuel budget, lest it be cut.
If I assert that the Drug War causes crime, we might wonder if it's about money, except that I'm quite sure there are easier ways to get ahead in life than exploiting your power as a cop.
Is one who upholds the law in exchange for money committing any worse an act than the average crook if they break the law for their own advantage? Is one who exploits their chosen position in life to a criminal benefit committing any more or less severe an act than the random person committing that crime?
If a child is exploited walking home from school ...? As opposed to being exploited by, say, the nanny?
Big or small, the idea's there ... I don't expect it to be entirely cohesive. Mostly I wanted to whine though, about all the wolves who insist on their right to be thought of as sheep.
thanx all,
Tiassa
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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.--Denis Diderot