Top 10 Signs You're Overworked and Understaffed
- You haven't been home in three days.
- You don't have time to take a shower, so you walk through a car wash on your beat.
- Your social life consists of hanging out and chatting with the suspects in the holding cells.
- Your love life consists of driving past your house flashing your spouse.
- Your spouse does something to get arrested just to spend some time with you.
- The stress is so bad that instead a breakfast cereal you have a bowl of Tums; and instead of milk, you pour Pepto Bismol on it.
- For Thanksgiving you and your partner feed each other two turkey T.V. dinners, while one of you drives and the other one answers calls on the radio.
- You try to request immediate back-up, but the dispatcher puts you on hold.
- Misdemeanors are no longer a crime because there are not enough officers to respond.
- The suspect in the holding cell lost 20 pounds because no one remembered to feed him.