Covid policy repercussions SDPD (San Diego, Freedom: real estate, home, job market)

[1AngryTaxPayer]

I'm not surprised no one wants to be a cop here now.


https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loc...eturn/3210981/


A 2021 survey done by the SDPOA, the union that represents most San Diego police officers, found that more than 400 officers would consider quitting if the city enforced a vaccine mandate.

The city confirmed to NBC 7 that as of April 2022, only 68 officers stated the mandate is the reason why they left, but Wilson feels the real number is much higher.

[joosoon]

"Response times for priority one calls are over 30 minutes."


The city: How's a 5% pay increase sound, eh???
Clueless.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by joosoon

"Response times for priority one calls are over 30 minutes."


The city: How's a 5% pay increase sound, eh???
Clueless.

Would that even cover the recent inflation?

[bloom]

Why are they opposed to a measles vaxx mandate, given they work in a public facing profession?

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Next time you see a cop ask them. It's not like it's a secret.

[hitman619]

Originally Posted by 1AngryTaxPayer

I'm not surprised no one wants to be a cop here now.

No one wants to work period, and it has nothing to do with being a police officer.
I work for the State, and I can’t believe how many people have quit my office since Covid.
Most of the people got pissed when Gavin Boy made people come back to the office. I can’t work from home anymore Waaaaah

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by hitman619

No one wants to work period, and it has nothing to do with being a police officer.
I work for the State, and I can’t believe how many people have quit my office since Covid.
Most of the people got pissed when Gavin Boy made people come back to the office. I can’t work from home anymore Waaaaah

I'll never go back into a cube job just to justify someone else's job that exists by patting you on the head. I was spending about a grand a month on fuel commuting. Working from home? Almost nothing. Cops can't do that.

At my work they filed a suite and like magic the vax wasn't mandatory.

[NYSD1995]

Originally Posted by hitman619

No one wants to work period, and it has nothing to do with being a police officer.
I work for the State, and I can’t believe how many people have quit my office since Covid.
Most of the people got pissed when Gavin Boy made people come back to the office. I can’t work from home anymore Waaaaah

I think the COVID era just exacerbated a number of workforce issues that had been coming to a head for a long time. The social contract between employers and the US labor force has been in decay for decades. COVID created the conditions that allowed a lot of people to make changes that had been brewing for a very long time. A lot of people retired. A lot of hourly service workers moved to remote jobs. Healthcare and Childcare job markets collapsed. White collar workers move to a WFH saving money and time on commuting etc.

Businesses haven't had to compete for labor at all during my career. Since the 90's it's just been layoffs, stagnant wages, and increasing portion of profits going to the executive and capitalist class.

The reality is, for a huge portion of the population, stagnant career and wage growth, aging workforce, increasing housing costs, increasing commute costs, have basically created a bit of a workforce revolution thats underway right now.

Think about it - a college education and a white collar job was once a stable ticket into the middle class - no longer. Similarly, we push everyone into college and then you don't have enough people to drive trucks and clean offices.

The solutions are staring us in the face but no one wants to make the hard choices.
- Want to reduce emissions? WFH is cheaper and easier than transitioning everyone to EVs and building trains.
- Want to create housing? WFH frees cities from wasting valuable real estate on aging office towers
- Want to make healthcare and blue collar jobs attractive? Flex scheduling, just-in-time pay and staffing, etc.

There is a group of people (mostly local governments and businesses dependent on commercial real estate) who want everything to go backwards - but it wont work. It's pretty funny when a so-called progressive, green mayor says on one hand we have to reduce tailpipe emissions and have everyone ride a bike to work, then on the other hand says commuters have to come back to downtown to keep sandwich shops and rail systems alive.

[stablegenius]

The solutions are staring us in the face but no one wants to make the hard choices.
- Want to reduce emissions? WFH is cheaper and easier than transitioning everyone to EVs and building trains.

I have been saying this since Jerry Brown. Cars are one of the biggest contributors to climate change and pollution. If politicians really cared they'd mandate some kind of at least partial WFH on the whole state. Don't think it's legal? Hasn't really stopped them before.... I'm really shocked it hasn't even been proposed.

[Axxlrod]

Originally Posted by stablegenius

The solutions are staring us in the face but no one wants to make the hard choices.
- Want to reduce emissions? WFH is cheaper and easier than transitioning everyone to EVs and building trains.

I have been saying this since Jerry Brown. Cars are one of the biggest contributors to climate change and pollution. If politicians really cared they'd mandate some kind of at least partial WFH on the whole state. Don't think it's legal? Hasn't really stopped them before.... I'm really shocked it hasn't even been proposed.

Dude. Freedom. No.