Management picks

The police department has "meritorious promotions" and "management picks" to complain about: We just have management picks.

Many people (dispatchers especially) are up-in-arms about who got which watch by "management." It's a never-ending cycle that we can track back many years. Many a PCO has gotten 1st Watch or 2nd Watch by "management" and stayed there until he/she had enough seniority to get the watch by bid. In years past (we're not sure about this year), there were people who got certain watches by "management" when they had enough seniority to get them by successful bid.

Now, if there's a watch to discuss, you can bet that a lot of people have their noses turned up because they didn't get it by bid or management, and someone with less seniority got it by management.

People, it's called a "management pick" for a reason. Management picks it, and no PCO has any direct say-so in the matter. We'd suggest that if you think it's unfair, ensure to have it written out of the next contract that should be effective on 01Jul07 that won't be ratified until 2009. But too many people would complain about not having chances to get watches by "management" because of their low seniority.