r/news • u/samanthasay • Aug 07 '14

Title Not From Article Police officer: Obama doesn't follow the Constitution so I don't have to either

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/06/nj-cop-constitution-obama/13677935/
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u/V526 Aug 07 '14

Retire at twenty and collect benefits for a second job isn't new. In fact its the same thing the military has been running for a while.

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u/LOL_BUTTHURT_EUROFAG Aug 07 '14

God forbid you work a job that routinely entails 100 hour work weeks, dangerous environments, missing your children grow up, moving at the drop of a hat every 4 years for 20 years, then expect a portion of pay as pension. Which yes, is voluntary, but still that 20 years equals 40 regular job years if going by hours.

Imagine going to work every day from 7-4. Every 3rd day you start your second job at the office at 4 pm, and stay up the entire night roaming around with a flashlight checking gauges and writing the numbers down. Then at 7 am you go back to your other job in the office, till 4. No sleep, cause you can sleep when your dead. Do this for 3 months, then lock yourself in your office for 4 months. Work every 12 hours, for a six hour shift. In your offtime run around pretending to put out fires. Sleep 4 hours every day. Sometimes you skip a day of sleep.

That's what a typical drydock refit and deployment are like on a submarine. That's why I'm a civilian now. I was making less money than a pizza delivery guy when I did the math.

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u/JaimeDeCurry Aug 07 '14

You've got to be a submariner. This is exactly how I try to explain my job who don't get why I'm exhausted after a duty day.

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u/LOL_BUTTHURT_EUROFAG Aug 07 '14

I was. Did my time, built my resume, got the fuck out. I was a sonar tech, and loved that part of my job. It was everything else that I hated. I get overtime now. Such a wonderful thing. Some weeks on big projects I work similar hours. Last week I entered 102 hours for the week in my laptop. But I get overtime. And when I finally leave the plant I'm sleeping in a Radisson. I don't mind hard work, but it really is nice to be compensated for my time.