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I am a law enforcement officer and have been for 10 years. I have found it difficult in some ways because the dept i work for uses the "masons" to hide their labor union antics. I'm not against the masons or false mason (clique) nor am i for them. I have done my job and do it well and everyone knows this so they tend to find ways to make me look bad and someone else better. Its gotten to the point to where i have to turn my check to certain things if i want to stay in the profession where others do not have to do this. any advice to how i can stay on top and get people off of me, protect myself from personal and professional attacks. thanks
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Wow, it's amazing how wide spread this kind of thing is. I have run into this kind of thing before and it's amazing how deep it runs, "The old boys network". I don't believe there is a way to fight this from the bottom and trust me, you have no idea where it stops on the top.
Many factors play apart here, the fact that you do your job well and the fact that you have no interest in being one of the boys, (I know you didn't say so, but it's obvious). It's a lot easier being one of the boys, but if your like me, you can't even consider it. Trouble is, the boys, (and "The Boys" are not necessarily all males, in my case they were mostly women), have it so good that they are willing to take it to whatever level they need to, to protect their way of work, so to speak.
They got the idea that you were going to upset the apple cart and they may actually have to start doing their job a 100% and they can't have that. I have always said, there are three things you don't "F" with, with a person, One, their food, Two, their spouse, and Three, their money, most everything else you can probably get away with. Your "F'ing" with their money, if you know what I mean. Their fear is that should the day come along that someone were to listen to you, or you were to move up, their playtime would be over.
You can buck the system and risk not getting to the right people and end up out on your butt. You can try to remain a wall flower, but I'm sure like me, that is wearing thin and your stomach is bothering you, you don't sleep well at night and you hate the thought of going to work, but not the job. This did not work for me, sooner or later something will send you over the edge.
I will tell you, when I finally left I felt liberated, not sad. I was happy to be out of there and I managed to find a company that had mostly good people in it, you'll never get 100%.
I know this is not what you want, but my advice is, try and find a new shop to work, you can't change anything from the bottom. Maybe someday you can go back there at a higher level and say, "Hi, I'm back".
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