Good State Worker

One of my  favorite stories about always finding something to do  was when I worked for the Alaska State Troopers.  If you had your work done the boss would let you do something like read etc. but if he found your work not done and you doing it you can bet you had a 3 day unpaid vacation, 2nd time a weeks vacation unpaid and the 3rd time you were looking for another job.  One winter which was always a really slow time for us I decided I would bring music tapes out and put them in the Dictaphone to transcribe the words for one of the Sgt.'s that had a country band that played around town on his days off and in Alaska sheet music was hard to find.

Our Captain came from the Juneau post and he loved to just drop in unexpected to check up on all of us, days, swing or graveyard you never knew when he was going to walk through the door.  Little known to me one day shift he went into my Sgt.'s office and him and the Sgt. walked back out to where I was busy transcribing music off a tape for the other Sgt. and unplugged my earphones and out comes this country song. The Captain says "well at least she knows how to look busy like a good state worker". He had been in the Sgt.s office telling him what a worker I was, that no matter when he showed up I was always busy even in winter. He had said he did not know what all I did but I was the busiest dispatcher he had ever seen. The Sgt. smiled and did not say anything he just walked out and pulled the plug........lol