“Women got cut no slack there. Which surprised the heck out of me considering it is SF.”
Being SF. . .how can you tell the men from the women, and besides, because it is SF, the girly-men are less masculine than the women. . .right?
Just kidding. . . .(no slam against your daughter)
LOL, I understand where you are coming from. I like SF for a week and then I feel like I am an expat in a foreign country.
Fortunately my daughter actually looks like a real woman. Very intelligent with serious real world smarts, *highly* motivated/driven. Which has been a *trial* at times.
No, even stranger, SFPD has some of the toughest requirements in the country. We would get calls several nights a week while she was in it, telling us what was happening. Occasionally in tears from how much she hurt that day. I thought that some of the physical punishment was over the top for either sex.
If you have graduated from their academy you can go to almost any PD in the country and get on without anything more than applying.
But...and the big but...it’s kind of a waste because a high percentage do just that shortly after graduation because the politics of the city and the PS are so awfully messed up. She was paid over $6,000 a month while in the academy (for 8 months). Imagine that within a year of graduation, well over 50% had left and gone elsewhere. I don’t know the exact numbers, I’ll have to ask her. Huge expense wasted.
We were silently relieved when she decided not to stay in LE. I sometimes think she did it just to prove she could. Happened before.