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ORIGINAL: Aneirin
RF, you are of course correct, my unpleasant experience yesterday, did colour my opinion somewhat, just when I was beginning to think it was all me, I discover it's not, but then, I am detecting a certain increase in authoritarian mentality in the UK. Not so much a pride in the job, but a sense that I have a hat, and I will wear it, basically people who need a uniform or title to make them something they are not, the Police being particularly good at this, their stance being they do not like one's attitude or tone when a person has the audacity to not agree with their summation of oneself.
Well you're 20 years late to the party but thanks for turning up eventually ;)
I don't have a huge issue with the Police. Granted, some of them are somewhat unprofessional, but they're at least trained, and "licensed" insofar as they operate within a fairly rigid set of rules and guidelines.
No the ones that irk me, and increasingly so, are the “hobby bobbies”; i.e. the “Police Community Support Officers”, aka “CHIMPS” as proper cops call them (standing for Can’t Help In Most Police Situations) – these jumped-up security guards have a tendency to attempt to exercise authority they don't have and, when you call them on it, as I have, several times, they get rather shirty.
I had a huge run-in with one a couple of years ago, which ended up with me being in the right, and them making a lot of threats they couldn't make good on, but it was still an annoying and upsetting confrontation.
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ORIGINAL: Aneirin
The instance that caused me such concern, was myself dressed as a construction worker, all paint, dust and mismatched work clothes in a DIY store with two and a half K in my pocket. But whilst the security guard was following me around, he totally missed a more conservatively dressed individual stealing energy saving light bulbs, I saw that, with my observation skills tuned for the not so obvious. Now normally, I would report the theft to a member of staff, perhaps even the security, but seeing as their attitude towards myself was somewhat remiss, I decided to let the store take the hit, as like as not, when the lost items are discovered, the minds will be thinking of such scruffy types as myself, not the not looking construction workers that frequent such stores.
That's a little juvenile, if you don't mind me saying - theft is theft, and if I see it, I'm going to call it. Don't get me wrong, I can understand why you'd be miffed, but remember it's not "the shop" that pays for it, it's us, because the shop would have to pass on any loss of revenue as an increase in its operating costs, generally to thee and me, in increased prices.
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ORIGINAL: Aneirin
As to psychologists, I have used them before, and discovered psychology is not an exact science, an admission from the psychologist themselves, who if good at their job are useful in putting the correct wordage to something a client cannot understand for themselves. Where they go wrong, is when they arrogantly decide something must be so, because there is a history of such in the past, and there follow guidelines from the past, whereas the world is in constant change and as it changes, so do people. The very signature I use here at the bottom of my posts was inspired by my old psychologist, for it is totally correct.
I haven't used them before but (having worked with quite a few) I'd describe them both as variable in quality, and strangely prone to psychological issues themselves.
BTW, do you mean psychologists, or do you mean psychiatrists? There's a difference.
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