Indeed:
Exactly! Same here. I’ve always wondered if real police departments actually ask that (and expect a real answer) or if that’s just a figment of some hack writers’ lazy imaginations. I don’t think anyone could possibly answer a question like that in reality unless they have what is called Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory. It’s rare but it does actually exist.
Supposedly Marilu Henner, the actress, if given a random date, can recall what she was doing every single day of her life. Or she could just be making it up. Who would know.
The story goes that she f----d every actor on “Taxi.” I’m sure she remembers that!
Ancient depilation practices were unexpectedly ubiquitous and often somewhat terrifying in their choice of methods. See this article for an overview along with links to images of a Greek red-figure vessel showing a woman conscientiously removing pubic hair by… singeing with an oil lamp. Ow!!!
(A. E. Housman’s brief essay on the classical author Herodas’s depiction of an unscrupulous brothelkeeper trying to sue a client for damages—under the pretense that the totally standard cosmetic depilation of one of his employees (which he invites her to show to the court) was caused by the client’s brutal violence—is a comic masterpiece, although buried so deep under decorous academic indirectness that it’s sometimes hard to know what he’s driving at.)
Yep. I outright am not seeing so many films nowadays because they don’t do the bare minimum.
I’m OK with the fantasy mock-Regency of Bridgerton, but the shit-brown palette of, say, The Uprising has lost me as a seat.
Within the past 12 years IIRC. It was changed recently to just 12 years’ service regardless of any disciplinary actions.
I’m pulled out of police dramas when the main character seemingly works 24 hours a day without any thought towards overtime. In the real world cops are allergic to working for free and bosses are constantly fighting to keep overtime down.
Another thing that irks me so, this time with regard to action movies (specifically, the beat-'em-up type): often the Bad guy and Good Guy will find themselves in a physical altercation. However, the Bad Guy is Very Good at Beating People Up, so they get the upper hand in the fight, and have the Good Guy in their literal grasp; they need only to administer the coup de grâce to finish him/her off.
But instead, the Bad Guy throws the Good Guy some distance away, thereby giving Good Guy the chance to recover, or obtain a weapon, and thereby finish off the Bad Guy once and for all.
Or, come to think of it, when the entire cast of a workplace setting show goes somewhere together. On Scrubs they had a two-episode arc where pretty much the entire cast goes to Hawaii to attend the janitor’s wedding. Who is covering all those shifts?
Yep!
OTOH in Forever Knight we had a vampire police detective working only the grave shift in the Toronto PD. Yeah, that ain’t happening.
Also when a cop fights hard to keep a case. A detectives case load is usually pretty high, anything that takes some of the load off is welcome.
Other than company sponsored events, I have never been a in job where the employees are all close friends off work. Yes, I have found a close friend at work, but the idea a whole team will be as close as family seems odd to me. Anyone actually be in that situation?
I know grave shift is unpopular, so maybe if someone volunteered, they would allow it?
I’m in the middle of a West Wing re-watch, and something related to this stood out to me just the other day that relates to this:
There’s an episode in which a character, Donna, is pulling a prank on her boss, Josh. Someone had just come into Josh’s office (works in the White House) pretending to be NSA, and claiming he needed to revoke Donna’s credentials. Donna comes in, is told this, and acts appropriately concerned as she plays into the prank. Probably much better than a normal human would. But what struck me was that when she leaves the office, she maintains the very well acted-in-universe look of concern on her face the whole time she is in view of the camera, but well after Josh could have seen her face.
Along these same lines, there’s the Ultimate-Badass-Until-They-Aren’t. The Witcher has established that witchers are supposed to be the most elite, bad-ass-mother-fuckers on the planet. In the latest season, a bad guy was introduced with him fighting a witcher (not the title character). This bad guy is supposed to also be a bad-ass-mother-fucker. But suddenly the witcher he’s fighting is acting like he’s never held a sword before, and bad guy easily takes him out like a chump.
The Jason Momoa version of Conan the Barbarian did this with both of the major villains.
Vampires often get an ADA accommodation (but they need to fill out the DOA-15104 Accommodation Request Form). It’s suggested that prior to this they have “a calm, rational conversation with their immediate supervisor and an HR rep”.
Ally Green who writes on labor issues for Forbes explains that this is because there are few other conditions where unexpectedly staying overtime can result in an immediate flaming death.
The vampires in Forever Knight had hypnotic powers. You could subtly influence your supervisor.
In the beginning of season 2 of The Wire a very messy complicated high profile crime is discovered. The jurisdiction between multiple agencies is unclear so they all get together to figure out who will investigate. In every other show they would be fighting to be lead. The Wire was much more realistic with all of them fighting for someone else to take lead.
There is always some people who prefer it for their own reasons. For positions that required around the clock shifts we had everyone bid on what shift they wanted by seniority. There are always some senior people that take what many would consider the worst shift. In my experience only big city departments need 24/7 detectives. We would have people on call as needed for those things that couldn’t wait for a detective response.
That would help but as with other similar jobs, if there’s a press on you gotta come in. It would be like an ER doc being called about a mass casualty event on their day off and refusing to show.
That would be plausible. Perhaps it happened in a part I didn’t see.
I happened to come in when just at sunrise Nick screeches to a stop at his apartment and starts dashing up the stairs. I asked, “So, how’s his daylight project coming along?”
By the time he’s yanking open the door he’s smouldering. “Not so good.”
I don’t think ADA applies in Toronto 
Was the audience in on the prank at that time, or were we being tricked along with Josh? If so, that’s a similar thing which is annoying once things are revealed: storylines where something bad is supposed to be happening, that turns out to be “just a joke,” except that the characters continue to maintain an “oh, God, this is bad” attitude even when they’re alone. Because the show doesn’t want to let the viewers in on the truth yet.