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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 692143" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>I am a contractor now (retired state) which means I get straight hourly *no vacation or sick leave. There is no obligation on either end. Except they need me more than I need them.</p><p></p><p>I decided I did not want M to suffer for this. I would rather forfeit the day's pay (or even the job) rather than ask M to drive 3 round trips.</p><p></p><p>There is a ban on fluorescent lime green, but what I had on was a spring green. (I can really see their point. I want to stress that.) But. All of the officers wear green, but it is olive drab green. Dark green, pea green, any green but the green I had on, it seems (which was not lime or avocado or anything near fluorescent.)</p><p></p><p>But the thing is, it is a prison. Security trumps everything. I understand how it works. I just have a hard time accepting the arbitrariness of it. After all, how many correctional officers (sergeants) saw me before I was stopped? (A dozen? The front, gate, the entry officers, the gunners did not stop me.) But the lady was doing her job, and that said, in this environment everybody backs up everybody else and I am odd man out.</p><p></p><p>I get it. The thing is, I may not want it--anymore. I mean, there are easier ways to make money. Who said it? Lil, I think. Why am I doing this? To prove a point to myself, that I am better? When it just makes me sad.</p><p></p><p>I cried. Twenty years later I can say it: I was never cut out for prison? Who is, really? (I find it astonishing I was never sent home before.)</p><p></p><p>The memo I got before I started about rules, was out-dated--from the time the prison was a reception center for women!!</p><p></p><p>M just volunteered that he we could carry a change of clothes in the car and he would wait 15 minutes (in the heat) in case I get sent back out again. I said, <em>No. Wouldn't it just be easier for me to only wear black? </em></p><p></p><p>I will not lie. I really, really hate this. Really, really. And I am not sure why. How can somebody change so much? I worked in two of the very toughest prisons in the United States. This place they call Camp Cupcake and Disneyland.</p><p></p><p>But I agree with you guys. I mean, if a dozen officers (the ones who let me in and stay) did not find anything offending about the color you would think they would have told me <em>do not wear that color again. </em></p><p><em></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 692143, member: 18958"] I am a contractor now (retired state) which means I get straight hourly *no vacation or sick leave. There is no obligation on either end. Except they need me more than I need them. I decided I did not want M to suffer for this. I would rather forfeit the day's pay (or even the job) rather than ask M to drive 3 round trips. There is a ban on fluorescent lime green, but what I had on was a spring green. (I can really see their point. I want to stress that.) But. All of the officers wear green, but it is olive drab green. Dark green, pea green, any green but the green I had on, it seems (which was not lime or avocado or anything near fluorescent.) But the thing is, it is a prison. Security trumps everything. I understand how it works. I just have a hard time accepting the arbitrariness of it. After all, how many correctional officers (sergeants) saw me before I was stopped? (A dozen? The front, gate, the entry officers, the gunners did not stop me.) But the lady was doing her job, and that said, in this environment everybody backs up everybody else and I am odd man out. I get it. The thing is, I may not want it--anymore. I mean, there are easier ways to make money. Who said it? Lil, I think. Why am I doing this? To prove a point to myself, that I am better? When it just makes me sad. I cried. Twenty years later I can say it: I was never cut out for prison? Who is, really? (I find it astonishing I was never sent home before.) The memo I got before I started about rules, was out-dated--from the time the prison was a reception center for women!! M just volunteered that he we could carry a change of clothes in the car and he would wait 15 minutes (in the heat) in case I get sent back out again. I said, [I]No. Wouldn't it just be easier for me to only wear black? [/I] I will not lie. I really, really hate this. Really, really. And I am not sure why. How can somebody change so much? I worked in two of the very toughest prisons in the United States. This place they call Camp Cupcake and Disneyland. But I agree with you guys. I mean, if a dozen officers (the ones who let me in and stay) did not find anything offending about the color you would think they would have told me [I]do not wear that color again. [/I] [/QUOTE]
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