Control
Control Since starting my job as a Correctional Officer this year I have been working quite a bit. I started off as part time and could pretty much pick up shifts wherever I wanted and as much as I wanted. And, because I just tend to do things like this, I ended up working, on average, around 48 hours a week. I recently moved to full time and actually feel like I work less; I know, it's weird. Anyway, because I have been basically living at my job there have been a few things about it that have been heavy on my mind. To fully understand this, I am going to have to explain a couple things about how my job actually works. At the jail I work at we have what's known as the 'control room'. This is the room where you can, you guessed it, basically control the building. By this I mean that, when you are stationed in control, you are in charge of watching all the cameras, regulating those who come in and out of the building and, mainly, opening all the doo