Alright, I'm going on my fourth week now, and I've got a problem none of the other new employees seem to have, even though at least one is a completely lazy do nothing.
I'm...being babied by the other officers, and the boss. I've more than proved myself, I booked in an obnoxious drunk AND a guy with a warrant in under 4 hours alone my first time booking. I've run the place without any help, done everything just as well as any other officer.
Yet still, all they seem to see is my young age [19]. They look at me and treat me like more of a kid, than a fellow officer, and I've talked to the JA about it already. They worry about letting me work alone, even though I've taken charge and put inmates in their place more than one time. I'm a second degree blackbelt, and not a bad tazer shot either, and more alert than some of the other officers, yet still they watch my every move, and act as if I need things explained further to me than other people.
I realize I'm the "young rookie punk" of the group, but I've shown them I can handle the inmates. I have inmates twice my age going "Morning Sir" and following my orders with a "Yes sir" manner. While treating them respectfully all the while.
Will this persona of me being a kid eventually fade from their demeanor? Or is there something I should be doing, a way I should be acting that I just don't see yet? I understand the JA wanting me to prove myself, but hell, I need a chance TO show them me working, which is what they aren't giving me.
I'm...being babied by the other officers, and the boss. I've more than proved myself, I booked in an obnoxious drunk AND a guy with a warrant in under 4 hours alone my first time booking. I've run the place without any help, done everything just as well as any other officer.
Yet still, all they seem to see is my young age [19]. They look at me and treat me like more of a kid, than a fellow officer, and I've talked to the JA about it already. They worry about letting me work alone, even though I've taken charge and put inmates in their place more than one time. I'm a second degree blackbelt, and not a bad tazer shot either, and more alert than some of the other officers, yet still they watch my every move, and act as if I need things explained further to me than other people.
I realize I'm the "young rookie punk" of the group, but I've shown them I can handle the inmates. I have inmates twice my age going "Morning Sir" and following my orders with a "Yes sir" manner. While treating them respectfully all the while.
Will this persona of me being a kid eventually fade from their demeanor? Or is there something I should be doing, a way I should be acting that I just don't see yet? I understand the JA wanting me to prove myself, but hell, I need a chance TO show them me working, which is what they aren't giving me.
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