Cro Flower Power Lifetime Members 6,114 Member For: 22y 3m 19d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 30/08/03 03:19 PM Share Posted 30/08/03 03:19 PM I'm gonna cry...I HATE my job!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KEN 24T Gandalf the Grey, Maiar of Manwë and Varda, Team HgAg/Sneaky Member 7,371 Member For: 21y 6m 30d Gender: Male Location: The Shire, Middle Earth Posted 30/08/03 10:02 PM Share Posted 30/08/03 10:02 PM I'm gonna cry...I HATE my job!!! ... then get one you like! no point whinging ... bite the bullet and move on to something more rewarding. God! you're only 23!! Get out there man! There is a perfect job just waiting for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBO240 Member 628 Member For: 21y 5m 23d Gender: Male Location: Geelong Posted 30/08/03 11:51 PM Share Posted 30/08/03 11:51 PM Actually atessa I think you will find they won't be getting any XR6 Turbos, only the XR8's as they were offered the premium brake package for no extra cost.No harm intended but my source is pretty good. they allready have some xr6t I seen one in geelong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongueboy Member 457 Member For: 21y 9m 29d Gender: Male Location: Tamworth, Armidale NSW Posted 30/08/03 11:57 PM Share Posted 30/08/03 11:57 PM Hopefully the cops driving these cars are properly trained otherwist there'll be a tonne of nice cars wrapped around trees.Really ? Do you just think they give the keys to anyone in the job who feels like driving something quicker?Even the most basic Police training requires at least 7 days of full time driver training just so you can drive the regular 6 cylinder Commodores or Falcons.To set foot in anything above the regular 6 cylinder, and where I come from this is XR6Ts, XR8s, SS Commodores, WRXs and (believe it or not) Volvo Station wagons, you have to do a pursuit drivers course. Which is at least 2 weeks, and quite hard to pass. In fact in my job if you want to have any sort of formal driver qual aside from your regular patrol permit, you have to do a course. This includes VIP protection driving, 4 wheel driving, tactical driving etc etcTo hope that Police have proper training so they dont 'wrap them around a tree' is pretty naive. touchy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongueboy Member 457 Member For: 21y 9m 29d Gender: Male Location: Tamworth, Armidale NSW Posted 30/08/03 11:57 PM Share Posted 30/08/03 11:57 PM Well done VG, took the words right out of my mouth!Unfortunately as much as I'd like other professions to cop a bagging every now and then, I don't think it will happen because apart from HWP, no one else gets to do what we do on the road.Getting paid to drive at high speed under the most arduous circumstance, getting equipped with great equipment, getting paid well, getting lots of overtime from funding for State operations, getting to drive a brand new latest model Australian high performance sedan and not having to pay for the fuel or tyres or servicing every day certainly makes up for having to deal with the 95% of cretins that hold a license that they found in a Cornflakes box and who believe it's their 'Goddamn right to drive wherever and however they want to"It also makes up for the abuse, dirty looks, cold shoulders in public places and constant stream of whining to the media.I love my job !!!!! you too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plonky The Bionic Man - half man-half titanium Member 1,766 Member For: 21y 9m 20d Location: Dodge Scat Pack Posted 31/08/03 12:35 AM Share Posted 31/08/03 12:35 AM As a matter of fact I am touchy about the constant slagging and innuendo.It's only a job for Chrissakes! I love it, I get paid to do what people dream about and I strive to maintain the morality and standard that USED to be in this bloody world!How about we give the 'cops are this...cops are that...I got a ticket once and the cop was so rude....etc etc etc' a rest. I'm not interested, Velvet Glove isn't interested, a lot of the other posters aren't interested and guests who look at the forum are probably not interested either.We can all agree that driver licensing is a joke, there should be mandatory retrospective driver training and bi-yearly assessments, insurance companies can share the burden by giving a discount to those that complete defensive driver courses to encourage people to do it, stationary speed cameras are purely designed as an indiscriminate tax, there is too much focus on speed by the car haters at the RTA, Highway Patrol Police are amongst the best trained drivers in Australia and the manufacturers such as Ford and Expensive Daewoo go to great lengths to supply and develop a car to the Police that will do the job well so therefore the consumer is a winner.I could go on and on about the things that the majority on here agree about but suffice to say I am 'touchy' about any denigration of my chosen career and will contunue to defend myself and others when uninformed people crap on! Come to think of it, I bought a pie once and it wasn't that nice, so therefore bakers should be the next target!I think bakers and pastry cooks should be the next target of villification!PS I still think the current XR6T and XR8 are the best Highway Patrol sedan we have had since the 351 days!!!!!I apologise to those that have suffered my rant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BATRB-6 BATRB-6 - (Fab) Member 117 Member For: 21y 5m 10d Gender: Male Location: MELBOURNE VIC Posted 31/08/03 01:09 AM Share Posted 31/08/03 01:09 AM : Update :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Last VIC POLICE smart car was finished on friday and are ready to hit the roads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongueboy Member 457 Member For: 21y 9m 29d Gender: Male Location: Tamworth, Armidale NSW Posted 31/08/03 01:26 AM Share Posted 31/08/03 01:26 AM better? the police do their job which is all you can ask. I have had no problems with the law and I have been booked once or twice and they are not even remotely close to my hate list! Sounds like a great job that have and you are right about the Ford product otherwise we wouldn't be on the forum. And I do agree about the licensing problems with drivers on the road today, it should be tougher and there should mandatory driving course of some description included before a license is issued. But we don't make those decisions,someone does.Guess who is on my hate list? Politicians and managers especially in goverment departments who have no idea of the real world or what goes on out in the field. No one comes even remotely close after that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongueboy Member 457 Member For: 21y 9m 29d Gender: Male Location: Tamworth, Armidale NSW Posted 31/08/03 01:29 AM Share Posted 31/08/03 01:29 AM settle down,don't bite and inform the uninformed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KEN 24T Gandalf the Grey, Maiar of Manwë and Varda, Team HgAg/Sneaky Member 7,371 Member For: 21y 6m 30d Gender: Male Location: The Shire, Middle Earth Posted 31/08/03 01:41 AM Share Posted 31/08/03 01:41 AM Fight! Fight! Fight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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