Yeah. We're currently on the lookout for people to do the Boring Stuff, and over-qualification is a real issue - it just wouldn't make sense to train someone for half a year, and have that person run away screaming a month later when realizing that that's it for the next 2-3 years. (Though we're now looking for folk fresh out of school, on the basis that after 2-3 years we'll probably have more interesting positions to fill, and can then have them train their own replacements before they move up.)
That's one of the reasons this is extra-bad: They're excluding people who are just quick, or bright, and insisting on hiring only the slow and the dull.
And then, this being police, they will aim to promote from within. So even if beat cop work is so boring that they're worried smart people will quit, the more interesting work will still only be done by the dull.
I recall taking some military placement exam thing in high school, and there was a pretty big "we don't want you because you think about orders instead of just following them" area, as the recruiter guy said to me. Now, they went on to try and pitch other military stuff I could do, which I bet the police department doesn't do. But I don't find this too terribly odd.
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Date: 2012-01-02 08:36 pm (UTC)(Though we're now looking for folk fresh out of school, on the basis that after 2-3 years we'll probably have more interesting positions to fill, and can then have them train their own replacements before they move up.)
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Date: 2012-01-03 11:55 am (UTC)And then, this being police, they will aim to promote from within. So even if beat cop work is so boring that they're worried smart people will quit, the more interesting work will still only be done by the dull.
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