Why the DMV anti-terrorist actions are bogus.
This is the complaint I filed with the New Jersey DMV. I'll report on their response as soon as I get it.
It's very disheartening to go get your license and have to wait 4 hours but I put up with it because my fellow citizens were putting up with it. So it was that I and a woman who was ahead of me on line (by 2 or 3 spots) approached the 3 staff members at the North Bergen DMV. My documents were all in order but the woman had some difficulty with her documents. While a supervisor was vetting my documents, she was simultaneously tending to the woman's concerns. Apparently, that woman was feeling a little concerned that she would be able to endure the extra wait (we were all at the half way point) and the supervisor offered her some chocolate to get by. OK, I believe in being kind especially when it comes from public officials. But the woman who had difficulties with her documents and with her stamina ended up behind me (I was 157). After a few minutes had gone by, I look and see that the woman had been put at the front of the line by the supervisor. I waited to get my license and then proceeded to file a complaint. The manager told me that perhaps it was done out of courtesy so that the woman would not faint. Well, at that bit of BS, I turned around and told everyone there that if they felt weak,they should complain and that they would be put in front of the line. At that point the manager said that she had not said that. I pulled out my recorder and asked her to repeat what it was that she had said. I further explained to the manager that I was hard of hearing. The manager, in a fit of indignation, went out and got the policeman who was there. He took my story and asked me to sit for a while--which I did. The reason he wanted me to sit for a while was that someone had called for reinforcements who arrived shortly. I was questioned by another officer and, since I had said I would file an online complaint (per the 1st officer's suggestion), I was allowed to go on my way.
You need to seriously consider the kind of job that the manager at the North Bergen DMV is doing when a staff member blatantly flirts with a customer WHILE vetting another. Where is the undivided attention that will keep us safe from terrorists? If that supervisor (I"m assuming she was a supervisor because I saw her floating around a lot and talking up a storm with many that were in the office) can take an able-bodied woman and put her in the front of the line, what else is she capable of doing? Also, you need to address why the manager was so quick to dismiss my complaint. Thank you for your concern.
So, what am I bitching about this time? Well, we the people are subjected to a new way of life aimed at instilling in us the fear of the bogeyman. There is no fucking bogeyman, and the reason I know this is because corruption has easily set in at the New Jersey DMV and, probably in every bureaucracy that is supposed to keep us safe from terrorists. It's all bogus, people. If the concerns were real, that New Jersey DMV supervisor would not have been flirting with a customer and escorting her to the front of the line. I rest my case.
BTW, kudos to the NBPD who did not confiscate my recorder when the despotic manager asked them to but the first PO did ask to hear what was on it. I knew there was nothing of any substance recorded on it, so I let him hear it. Who are these fucking bureaucrats that they think they can ask the police to confiscate a recording because they had not agreed to the recording. Assholes don't know the law, yet they are entrusted with knowing it.
It's very disheartening to go get your license and have to wait 4 hours but I put up with it because my fellow citizens were putting up with it. So it was that I and a woman who was ahead of me on line (by 2 or 3 spots) approached the 3 staff members at the North Bergen DMV. My documents were all in order but the woman had some difficulty with her documents. While a supervisor was vetting my documents, she was simultaneously tending to the woman's concerns. Apparently, that woman was feeling a little concerned that she would be able to endure the extra wait (we were all at the half way point) and the supervisor offered her some chocolate to get by. OK, I believe in being kind especially when it comes from public officials. But the woman who had difficulties with her documents and with her stamina ended up behind me (I was 157). After a few minutes had gone by, I look and see that the woman had been put at the front of the line by the supervisor. I waited to get my license and then proceeded to file a complaint. The manager told me that perhaps it was done out of courtesy so that the woman would not faint. Well, at that bit of BS, I turned around and told everyone there that if they felt weak,they should complain and that they would be put in front of the line. At that point the manager said that she had not said that. I pulled out my recorder and asked her to repeat what it was that she had said. I further explained to the manager that I was hard of hearing. The manager, in a fit of indignation, went out and got the policeman who was there. He took my story and asked me to sit for a while--which I did. The reason he wanted me to sit for a while was that someone had called for reinforcements who arrived shortly. I was questioned by another officer and, since I had said I would file an online complaint (per the 1st officer's suggestion), I was allowed to go on my way.
You need to seriously consider the kind of job that the manager at the North Bergen DMV is doing when a staff member blatantly flirts with a customer WHILE vetting another. Where is the undivided attention that will keep us safe from terrorists? If that supervisor (I"m assuming she was a supervisor because I saw her floating around a lot and talking up a storm with many that were in the office) can take an able-bodied woman and put her in the front of the line, what else is she capable of doing? Also, you need to address why the manager was so quick to dismiss my complaint. Thank you for your concern.
So, what am I bitching about this time? Well, we the people are subjected to a new way of life aimed at instilling in us the fear of the bogeyman. There is no fucking bogeyman, and the reason I know this is because corruption has easily set in at the New Jersey DMV and, probably in every bureaucracy that is supposed to keep us safe from terrorists. It's all bogus, people. If the concerns were real, that New Jersey DMV supervisor would not have been flirting with a customer and escorting her to the front of the line. I rest my case.
BTW, kudos to the NBPD who did not confiscate my recorder when the despotic manager asked them to but the first PO did ask to hear what was on it. I knew there was nothing of any substance recorded on it, so I let him hear it. Who are these fucking bureaucrats that they think they can ask the police to confiscate a recording because they had not agreed to the recording. Assholes don't know the law, yet they are entrusted with knowing it.
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