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When they do document a lot of things, agency management and executives are often viewed as nit-picking, overly punitive, and out to get people which in turn can effect the morale/work ethic/retention of the troops. It's a balancing act that occurs in just about every workplace, whether LEO or not.
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I don't think I was referring to nit picking, but agencies failing to document serious violations
Twenty-five years ago I had a coworker who saw that I was gone every month for National Guard drill and went to great pains to invent an enlistment in the Naval Reserve.
He would go away every moth for "Naval Reserve" drills
It went on for a year before the admins finally caught on that it was entirely bogus
The guy had other work issues that had been happening and when they finally took him in for personnel action on this and other stuff he'd been doing they lost on a lot of the stuff they thought they had on him because they'd failed to properly document his problems and any corrective actions they'd tried with him up to that point.
Eventually they got rid of him but it took way longer than it should have had they been doing things properly.
I don't see that as nit-picking
An example of nit-picking was my last CLEO who made increasing demands on my Guard unit to prove my attendance
The old bosses had been fine with copies of orders and an annual training schedule.
This guy started demanding a monthly letter.
Then he started demanding a monthly letter with first formation and final formation times
He basically was making me come in as soon as final formation was over
So the unit started putting down my times as being from 0001 Saturday to 2359 Sunday
So the CLEO started demanding that I come in at 0001 Monday
I went so far as to get JAG involved but it was a young JAG officer who the boss got over on
It really didn't end til my deployment to Afghanistan, almost at the end of my military career.
To me, that's nit picking, and it was entirely done because he was head hunting every officer he could to get rid of them and replace them with people he thought would be beholden to him for their jobs
He was unhappy with anyone who had an institutional memory at our place and how things were run before he showed up at our doorstep..
He was raiding a neighboring agency for their officer to the point that agencies CLEO had to ask him to stop stealing his people.
Ultimately the majority of the officers he stole were nightmares compared to the people he booted out from our agency
People who fled that agency to ours tended to be guys who were leaving there for a reason and they simply brought their issues to our place
Karma.