SCP staff selection process
Discussion
Hello all.
I was just wondering what the staff selection process was for a safety camera partnership. I've dealt with them in Hull, and they all seemed to be of the type that have that strange confused vacant look about them when you ask them anything outside their 'comfort zone'. You know the thing I mean, when you're talking reasonably to someone and they look like they are in some sort of confused slow motion. The you get the chap on here who was from a SCP. In one breath he says that one of the reasons we want more trafpols is because we are more likely to be let off which is rather derogatory of the professionalism of the traffic police, but then when he gives his examples of bad driving omits anything that's to do with actual speeding that trafpols would pull people over for. (driving an HGV partly on the hard should while on a mobile, overtaking on white lines. No speed issues there!) We see the same thing at these 'speed awareness courses' for people driving at 1 particular speed ie 79MPH on a motorway. The chap says that is we all slowed down by just 1MPH then accidents 'in general' fall by 7%. 2 points here. If you project a linear fall in speed with a geometric fall in accidents then even at 0MPH you still have accidents which I don't quite understand, and secondly if you look at the stats for average vehicle speed it's dropped quite a lot year on year, while accidents haven't, so where have these stats come from?
Seems to me they choose staff that are conformist who are unlikely to question authority, with added 'I'm right, you're all wrong, so don't even argue with me. Failed politicians?, scrotes? who knows.
The arogance astounds me however.
I was just wondering what the staff selection process was for a safety camera partnership. I've dealt with them in Hull, and they all seemed to be of the type that have that strange confused vacant look about them when you ask them anything outside their 'comfort zone'. You know the thing I mean, when you're talking reasonably to someone and they look like they are in some sort of confused slow motion. The you get the chap on here who was from a SCP. In one breath he says that one of the reasons we want more trafpols is because we are more likely to be let off which is rather derogatory of the professionalism of the traffic police, but then when he gives his examples of bad driving omits anything that's to do with actual speeding that trafpols would pull people over for. (driving an HGV partly on the hard should while on a mobile, overtaking on white lines. No speed issues there!) We see the same thing at these 'speed awareness courses' for people driving at 1 particular speed ie 79MPH on a motorway. The chap says that is we all slowed down by just 1MPH then accidents 'in general' fall by 7%. 2 points here. If you project a linear fall in speed with a geometric fall in accidents then even at 0MPH you still have accidents which I don't quite understand, and secondly if you look at the stats for average vehicle speed it's dropped quite a lot year on year, while accidents haven't, so where have these stats come from?
Seems to me they choose staff that are conformist who are unlikely to question authority, with added 'I'm right, you're all wrong, so don't even argue with me. Failed politicians?, scrotes? who knows.
The arogance astounds me however.
mattd said:
I think you first have to look at who would apply for such a job and i think it falls into 2 main catergorys
Saftey zeolots and people with no chance of a decent job
You forgot "category III" - people like me who would join to piss them off inbetween jobs (i.e man the vans and point the laser at a nearby tree while chilling on a beechchair next to it)
Critera for selection would have to include i would say, a pathological hatred of cars and drivers, an arrogant overbearing attitude coupled with overzealousness, ability to sit still for hours on end knowing that everybody hates you and that you hate everybody, total unreasonableness and no discretionary capablities whatsoever, an eye like patrick moore's ie; a huge squint, other character traits should be optional, such as the ability to totally ignore traffic law, have no sense of fair play, halitosis that could gas a crowd, overactive sweat and saliva glands, an itchy arse and a pet spider called Malcolm.
Oh and not forgetting being a complete w*nker.
Oh and not forgetting being a complete w*nker.
They are all the same - we had EmmaR (Manchester Prat) on manchester on line before Xmas. Ten members of this family went on line - easy questions - got through. Hard hitting ones - like the ones that wanted truth did not - and when they did - it was case of one answer fits all.
And of course - we alll know what the one answer which fits all is
Bit like the one politicians answer as "Since we came to power we have spent ..... have increased..... policemen.... teachers..... GPs...... and we all know that that is not true --- because they are either the invisible ones or never existed in the first place!
Bit like these stats they keep bangin' on about!
Ask ---
Where are the workings? How much dosh did you really make??? Where are the saved lives? Why has death rate not reduced? Why are people being fined for trivial blips? WHy are we seeing people fined like this anyway if they are supposed to encourage us to slow down? Why are driving standards we see actually falling - tailgating, middle lane hogging, undertaking, illegal driving? Why are we seeing police training (all areas) slashed? Pretend community officers (and pretend teachers, nurses, foreign docs...)
-- and you get no answer - other than "
"Cameras save lives"
"Accidents fell at scam site by 35%"
"75% of those we asked like them!"
So prerequisite has to be:
"Ability to memorise at least phrases and repeat them like Pavlov's dog to each question asked - no matter what it is!"
And
"Spout the dogma no matter what, and run away as soon as they start to ask deeper questions!
Typical talivan twits - only good at hiding and skulking!
And do not forget the IQ test - anything above moron level on the IQ and other recruitment tests - and you fail the interview!
And of course - we alll know what the one answer which fits all is
Bit like the one politicians answer as "Since we came to power we have spent ..... have increased..... policemen.... teachers..... GPs...... and we all know that that is not true --- because they are either the invisible ones or never existed in the first place!
Bit like these stats they keep bangin' on about!
Ask ---
Where are the workings? How much dosh did you really make??? Where are the saved lives? Why has death rate not reduced? Why are people being fined for trivial blips? WHy are we seeing people fined like this anyway if they are supposed to encourage us to slow down? Why are driving standards we see actually falling - tailgating, middle lane hogging, undertaking, illegal driving? Why are we seeing police training (all areas) slashed? Pretend community officers (and pretend teachers, nurses, foreign docs...)
-- and you get no answer - other than "
"Cameras save lives"
"Accidents fell at scam site by 35%"
"75% of those we asked like them!"
So prerequisite has to be:
"Ability to memorise at least phrases and repeat them like Pavlov's dog to each question asked - no matter what it is!"
And
"Spout the dogma no matter what, and run away as soon as they start to ask deeper questions!
Typical talivan twits - only good at hiding and skulking!
And do not forget the IQ test - anything above moron level on the IQ and other recruitment tests - and you fail the interview!
We really need a "category IV" - someone who joins a camera partnership to act as a mole and leak internal information.
I think it's reasonably certain that newspapers would pay very well indeed for internal documents and information.
I have the newspaper contacts. If you have the time and the local scammers are recruiting, how about it?
I think it's reasonably certain that newspapers would pay very well indeed for internal documents and information.
I have the newspaper contacts. If you have the time and the local scammers are recruiting, how about it?
WildCat said:
So prerequisite has to be:
"Ability to memorise at least phrases and repeat them like Pavlov's dog to each question asked - no matter what it is!"
And
"Spout the dogma no matter what, and run away as soon as they start to ask deeper questions!
Funny you should say that WildCat.
Years ago, as you might have detected from some of DVD's lighter banter aimed in my direction, I lived and worked in partial exile located in The People's Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire. That is as opposed to the real Yorkshire of birth.
Sheffield Council at that time was headed by one Mr. David Blunkett.
It didn't take me long to figure out that when asked a question, the Blunkett brain whizzed into action and, rather like an old jukebox, played whichever hackneyed track was most appropriate, or more often inappropriate, to the question posed.
Nowt changes. Leopards. Spots.
FiF
safespeed said:
We really need a "category IV" - someone who joins a camera partnership to act as a mole and leak internal information.
I think it's reasonably certain that newspapers would pay very well indeed for internal documents and information.
I have the newspaper contacts. If you have the time and the local scammers are recruiting, how about it?
That would be a great idea. Perhaps I should give up the day job......
Anyone remember Fred and Rosemary West? They were reckoned to live in a world of their own, each reinforcing the other's wicked world-view to the exclusion of reality.
Surely it's similar with partnership employees? While I wouldn't say they had a wicked world-view, they must have a distorted view. But it will be reinforced by internal communications like "99% of people like scameras" and "ignore the idiots who criticise you" and "cameras save lives" and "they'll thank you for it in the end". Once indoctrinated they're protected from reality and no doubt give each other "moral [sic] support" to keep up the fight. It can even be beneficial to make people believe they're in a downtrodden minority but with the moral high ground because then the zeal is stronger. Certainly that would explain the condescension we sometimes see from these people.
Of course, it's not just partnerships who indoctrinate their employees. Any largeish company has its own internal propaganda about "being the best" etc, to keep its people going when times get tough.
Surely it's similar with partnership employees? While I wouldn't say they had a wicked world-view, they must have a distorted view. But it will be reinforced by internal communications like "99% of people like scameras" and "ignore the idiots who criticise you" and "cameras save lives" and "they'll thank you for it in the end". Once indoctrinated they're protected from reality and no doubt give each other "moral [sic] support" to keep up the fight. It can even be beneficial to make people believe they're in a downtrodden minority but with the moral high ground because then the zeal is stronger. Certainly that would explain the condescension we sometimes see from these people.
Of course, it's not just partnerships who indoctrinate their employees. Any largeish company has its own internal propaganda about "being the best" etc, to keep its people going when times get tough.
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