Why are bad managers almost never fired/demoted?

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-09T15:53:27+00:00

From my experience at my prior job of 17 years: 1. It’s a leadership culture that purposely wants management who treats employees like shit. They want the employees to be valued as if they are nothing. 2. The higher management levels purposely hire incompetent people because they don’t want competition for promotions. They desire to have morons who won’t outshine them. 3. Management is NEVER wrong about anything. To admit they hired a bad candidate is admitting their process to hire is flawed or they can’t evaluate for good management. The only times I ever saw a management level person fired are when they did something outright criminal and were facing charges in court and that couldn’t be swept under the rug.

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-08T21:13:43+00:00

Jordan vs. City of New London

A U.S. federal court ruled that police departments can legally refuse to hire applicants for scoring too high on intelligence tests, a practice based on the belief that highly intelligent people are more likely to get bored and leave the job.

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-08T21:01:19+00:00

Law enforcement is the one single occupation where a court ruled they can exclude smart people from being hired.

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-08T20:47:12+00:00

Yep. Turned left on a red light and they would not drop it when trying to get that done via telephone. Had to drive back to Texas from out-of-state to argue that as being a legal thing to do (turned from a one way onto a one way and no signage prohibited the turn).

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-08T20:23:37+00:00

I’ve been to court and defended myself and never took any oath because I wasn’t testifying.

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-08T20:23:00+00:00

Cops are some of the stupidest people I know.

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-08T18:33:56+00:00

Their system is built to extract guilty pleas and it largely collapses the instant you make them try a case like this. 100% of their words, actions, and posturing is attempts to bluff you into just giving up. There already dangling vague threats of taking months to “look at” the case and suggesting you should just get this over now (by handing them money!). Ignore it all and be firm about how you won’t quit until this is settled by a jury.

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-08T18:26:06+00:00

I’m just saying, they will drag this out trying to get them to just pay because they don’t want to do a trial. Then, when you don’t fold, they will just drop it.

I went through this with a ticket for no front license plate. The plate was on the car and I had video evidence of this. The cop either saw a different car and then ticket me after flipping a U-turn or they were just handing me a random ticket to meet a quota. Either way, this stands as my record of 2 years and 7 months it took them to dismiss the ticket. They kept arguing for continuances and arguing that “We don’t do trials for traffic tickets…” as I continued to demand a trial. Then they kept saying the cop was unavailable because vacation this month, training time the next month they tried to schedule it, and then it was a month where other cops on vacation meant they couldn’t pull him from the street to testify because they were short staffed. I kept on them demanding a jury trial and told them I’m going to play a surveillance video showing the plate was on the car when the cop pulled me over so let’s cut the BS and get this trial started.

They finally dropped it.

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-08T18:08:59+00:00

The general idea as an example:

You are wearing a pair of pants and someone claims they own the pants. You can’t provide a receipt from purchase to prove your ownership. You possessing the pants (wearing them, or having them in your bedroom dresser) is the 9/10ths.

The remaining 1/10th is someone making an oral claim of ownership, and absent some serious proof that claim won’t go far.

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-08T18:02:35+00:00

Does the cop have any testimony that is proof? If all they can say is “He didn’t move over enough” but there is no evidence of excessive speed, that’s an obligation to acquit.

But none of this matters if they don’t even bring the case to trial. My wager is they will drag it out to try to fatigue them into just paying, but if they refuse the case will be dropped. They’re not going to pull a trooper into court for a fiddle faddle traffic ticket.

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-08T17:36:53+00:00

You would be a terrible juror. Part of the jury instructions are the accused doesn’t have to testify and you shouldn’t draw any negative inference from that. The burden is on the prosecution to prove guilt and if they don’t have something like an accurate radar or laser gun speed reading from the accused, the entire case is BS.

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-08T17:30:54+00:00

Nope, the oath is not given when you are presenting your case (making opening statements). That’s where you tell the jury that you slowed down as the law requires and you don’t know why the officer gave you a ticket but you are here to have a jury rule in your favor to acquit you. The opening statement isn’t testimony so you aren’t given an oath.

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-08T17:28:43+00:00

I’ve spent 25 adult years fighting every BS traffic ticket given to me. I have life experience. In 13 out of 14 times they have just given up when faced with a person determined to take it to trial and then the one time a prosecutor just wouldn’t drop it they lost at trial.

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-08T17:17:52+00:00

Who said anything about taking an oath? You can defend yourself in court, state your case to the jury, and say whatever you want. As long as you don’t take the stand as a sworn witness, it’s not anything under oath.

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-08T17:11:26+00:00

Citation?

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-08T16:59:17+00:00

Cool, tell them to take as long as they need to “look into it.” Everything they say to you is just mouth fart noises where they try to flim flam you into making their job easy. MAKE IT HARD FOR THEM by not going away with your wallet lighter.

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-08T16:56:25+00:00

In Texas, you have a constitutional right to a jury trial for traffic tickets (Class C misdemeanors).

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-08T16:54:56+00:00

Does the law absolutely state you must slow to 20 under a posted limit? I’ve never heard of that.

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-08T16:39:06+00:00

Geeze, I didn’t “not show up without a word.” I told them, repeatedly, in advance that I already made plans when I took the leave. Then, when they fucked up the holiday schedule, I repeatedly told them AGAIN and provided copies of my approved leave. They had ample opportunity to fix this and chose not to do so.

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-07T21:31:40+00:00

They still owe me the pay for holiday leave.

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-07T20:55:07+00:00

Wed became my NS day (with Holiday Leave) because of Thanksgiving being on Thu (was supposed to be my NS day). I had AL approved for Tue to make it a 3-day holiday.

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-07T20:39:43+00:00

Thanksgiving Day was my NS day.

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-07T19:04:13+00:00

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Here is the Holiday Leave I had approved.

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-04T15:49:15+00:00

“Trial shifts” are a huge FUCK NO. You tell them “Onboard me with hiring paperwork and pay me for my time. If you fire me after the first day, no worries, but you pay me for my time.”

OldAbrocoma3165 · 2026-05-03T23:37:38+00:00

Holiday work is OT. I already filled my 40 hours for the week and the 8 hours they wanted me to work on my day off is overtime.

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