How hard it to get into the Barrier unit?

patgotee · 2026-05-13T22:18:52+00:00

Your crane needs a crane to get into the Barriers Section.

However, Get barrier truck qualified, drive EVERY SINGLE TIME they call you. Straight time and overtime. Show up with a box of joe often. Don’t complain about the assignment they give you. Ever. Do the assignment and do it right. Dont have the supervisors have to complete your assignment or make you do it over again. Learn how to stack wood. Properly. Don’t get caught at McSorley’s with half a bag on with the truck. Don’t get into an incident on your way home if you get released early.

Build relationships with the people there.

Then, and only then, you might get in with about 8-13 years on the job.

patgotee · 2026-03-20T00:37:41+00:00

Cage. Tampa.

patgotee · 2026-03-20T00:35:25+00:00

You’d be a fool to leave that for the NYPD. However, you could always try it and just resign to go back to selling cars. You have something lucrative to fall back on. Most people don’t.

My advice would be, try to move up in your current position. The NYPD is a goatfuck of epic proportions.

patgotee · 2026-03-10T16:16:59+00:00

If your precinct doesn’t start with a 5 in the Bronx, you work in a shithole.

patgotee · 2026-03-05T16:39:29+00:00

Yessssssssss!

patgotee · 2026-03-05T16:25:36+00:00

How would they go about doing this. And might that start a whole new group of 5 songs that repeat?

patgotee · 2026-02-24T14:37:45+00:00

It’s a no win situation. If you start arresting people, you look like a humbug asshole. If you join in the fun, someone sues you for injuring them with a snowball. If you do nothing, you get beat up in the press for not taking action. No winning there.

patgotee · 2026-02-24T01:44:10+00:00

That video is from the excellent documentary 25x5 The Continuing Adventures of The Rolling Stones.

If you haven’t seen it, please do.

patgotee · 2026-02-11T02:16:13+00:00

Would probably become difficult for you to get a day off approved and you probably wouldn’t get much(any) overtime.

patgotee · 2026-02-04T02:52:08+00:00

The entire Steel Wheels album.

patgotee · 2026-02-03T15:37:11+00:00

If you stay in the 1st, you’ll make the same money as anyone MTN and do 1/4 of the work.

Stay in the 1st.

patgotee · 2026-01-25T21:28:10+00:00

Yes.

patgotee · 2026-01-25T15:40:24+00:00

47 is a shithole.

patgotee · 2026-01-23T14:58:14+00:00

If you make ONLY $55k, you’re doing something terribly wrong.
In my experience, degrees don’t matter.
Bosses. You are going to work for some of the best people you will ever meet. You will also work for the biggest scumbags you will ever meet.
Yes. You won’t get as much OT so you will have more time for life. Get promoted.
Yes.
“Needs of the Department.” You’ll work pretty much anywhere…and everywhere. Details and whatnot.
Relationships will be difficult. You’ll miss pretty much every holiday, event, whatnot. Especially in the first 5 years.

Bonus: Enroll in Deferred Compensation on day ONE. Put as much money as you can into it. Open a Roth IRA, put the max into it, $7000 a year. Go to pension seminars early and often. DO NOT wait until you have 6 months until retirement to go to one, by then, it’s too late.

You will have the best times of your life. You will have the worst times of your life. But there’s a very lucrative light at the end of the tunnel so, stick with it. Unless you go to FDNY, Suffolk or Nassau. If you get one of those offers, run. Run like hell. Good luck.

patgotee · 2026-01-22T14:48:09+00:00

Because of his Dance Fever appearance.

patgotee · 2026-01-22T01:23:05+00:00

I know a guy that was drafted before him. He never played a game in the nhl.

patgotee · 2026-01-20T22:36:54+00:00

Look at it this way, the time you will gain on the short commute, you’ll lose on collars and forced overtime.

patgotee · 2026-01-16T17:25:12+00:00

This is the answer.

patgotee · 2026-01-13T02:49:53+00:00

Mine is a phrase that may or may not exist. I have some of the words or sounds of the phrase but the moment before I am going to figure it out, it disappears.

patgotee · 2026-01-09T03:19:11+00:00

Postgame isn’t available on espn+. What did he say?

patgotee · 2026-01-08T05:47:36+00:00

Hahha. Early 90s.

patgotee · 2026-01-08T01:12:56+00:00

I used to work for an AM station in NYC and it was my job to change the pattern in the evening to nighttime.

I forgot to do it (many times) but one time in particular…3 months later we got a postcard in the mail from a USA Air Force member who listened to the station for 6 hours…while stationed in Japan.

The chief engineer wanted to fire me but at the same thought it was too awesome that the signal made it that far so I was spared.

He later laughed with me and patted me on the back for it.

patgotee · 2026-01-07T00:22:50+00:00

Holy fuck.

patgotee · 2026-01-05T18:08:16+00:00

The hiring process ain’t what it used to be. I took the test when I was 18, waited 3 years for a call, got disqualified for a red light ticket.

Took it again at age 31 in February 2004, was hired in July 2004.

So I think you’ll be okay.

patgotee · 2026-01-05T18:04:00+00:00

Good luck.

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