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At most law enforcement agencies, you will be there for many years before you can consistently work an 8-5, Monday-Friday schedule with weekends off. At some, this will never happen.There are lots of scheduling plans used in law enforcement agencies. The most basic has five eight-hour shifts per week, with two consecutive days off. Because law enforcement agencies operate 24 hours per day, those eight hours might fall anywhere on the clock, and the days off might be weekdays, weekends, or some combination thereof. A few departments still work "around the clock," so you're on day shift this week, night shift the next, and evenings the next, then start over again.More commonly, cops work a 4/10 or a 12-hour plan, working ten or twelve hours per day. The most common 4/10 plan has everyone working one day a week. That day is used for training, court appearances, admin assignments, and other things, when you can detail at least half the officers to something other than patrol. Ten-hour shifts also tend to overlap, so you don't have an absence of cops on the street at shift change.Twelve hour shift plans are more complex, and people who work them rotate from days to nights constantly. Most have a provision for at least one day off between a day/night change, to allow the officer to acclimate to the different schedule. Here is an example of a 12-hour schedule that staffs a day and a night shift:I know of some agencies that work a 28-day "deployment plan" or DP. With this method, each patrol slot is staffed with three to four officers. Before the start of each DP, the officers designate which days they will work by seniority, the most senior having first dibs. If the DP requires that each officer work or take vacation or comp time for 20 days of the 28-day DP, the most senior guy could sign up to work 20 days straight, and then have over a week off. The remaining, less senior guys on that DP would split up what was left. Obviously, this sucks until you get some seniority.My former employer worked a 4/10 plan, where everyone worked on Friday. We were organized in 6-10-officer patrol teams, with everyone on a team working the same area of town (with different patrol beats within that area), on the same shift, with the same days off, and with the same supervisor. You always worked with the same people over the six months of each schedule. Every six months, a new skeleton schedule was made out, with one slot for every cop in patrol. At 0800 on "shift bid" day, the most senior patrol officer chose his slot, followed by the next most senior, and so on. The first dozen or so cops got just about anything they wanted, where the most junior guy had no choice at all. Probationary officers were assigned administratively, so they had no choice, either. It took roughly 8-10 years of seniority to get day shift consistently, if that's what you wanted, and days off were a crap shoot.Ironically, my first six months as a cop were with weekends off (we were on a five-eight plan then), only because my training officers had those days off. That lasted until I was assigned to solo patrol. Personally, I hated day shift, and the only time I ever worked it was when I was a probationary sergeant and I was administratively assigned to it.There are some administrative jobs in police agencies that work a M-F, 8-5 shift, and many detectives work that schedule. It usually requires years before you qualify for one of these assignments, and you may have it for only a few years before you go back to patrol.If your happiness is dependent on working 8-5, Monday to Friday, I suggest you find a career other than police work. You will work for years before you get the schedule you prefer, and it may never come at all.

I worked on both sides (Morgan Stanley M&A + McKinsey). In a nutshell:Life balance: it depends by location and your team, however consulting is usually a more balanced Monday to Friday work. IB M&A does not know that meaning of weekends, at least at junior levels. However, in consulting you travel more.In terms of compensation: it is very variable depending on your performance and obviously by your seniority. IB bonuses are very dependent on the year performance of the bank. At senior level, assuming stellar performance on both sides, a Director @ McK makes 20–30% less than a IB Managing director. However, we are talking about very high comps and both sides are very rewarding.

This question has been around probably since the stone ages when the first manager decided to hire her/his first employee. While originally they were probably minor embellishments, many companies have resorted to using whoppers in the hope that they can attract "the best and brightest". Here are some that I have encountered over the years and the thoughts that came to mind once I heard them:NOTE: My answers are intended to be as exaggerated as the statements that were provided to me. Take them with a grain of salt."We have an open door policy here" - this is a total lie especially in bigger companies. If you think you are going to get the ear of the CEO if you have any concerns in a company bigger than 10 people, be prepared for a long wait."We have a flat organization structure here" - Trust me, if you have more than two people in a department, one will always be more senior than another one. It may not be spelled out in terms of title, but there will always be leveling."We believe in empowering our employees" -SCENARIO 1: In other words, we are ready to let you pick an icon or two on a PowerPoint deck, as long as you are ready to justify why you picked the person icon with the blue shirt versus the one with the red dress.SCENARIO 2: We will give you the awesome responsibility of taking out the trash. Since we trust you so much, we *know* you will separate the recyclables from the compostables right?"We trust our employees" - We trust our employees as long as they cc: us on every e-Mail you send and you are willing to accept "feedback" about the tone, your spelling or the fact you have a "creative" e-Mail signature (which is not company sanctioned)."We believe training is important for ongoing development" - that is, if you can flag down a colleague who has learned something and you can pin her down for a few minutes during your lunch break, we are more than happy to let you "learn"."We believe in work-life balance" - in other words, we expect you to work your entire life here and if you ask for comp time, we may give it, but don't think for a minute you can step away from your laptop or cell phone.Here are some new ones (09/02/2012)"We are a meritocracy" - that is until the boss's best friend wants to buy yet another new toy, then be prepared to be denied that raise/bonus you worked so hard to earn over the past year. Also known as "We don't play favorites here!" or "We promote from within" (see below)"We have a hands-off management style" - the only thing that we 'don't' do (yet) is monitor how many squares of toilet paper each employee uses, but that's because we don't want to look like total jerks (but in all honesty, we do - we just dock it out of your pay if you use too much)."We provide our employees the latest technologies to do their jobs" -SCENARIO 1: you mean a 486 with a VGA monitor running Windows 95 isn't bleeding edge? Go bitch to Johnson who still has a 386SX running Windows 3.1!"SCENARIO 2: yes we will give you a laptop, but it's a hand-me-down that was we forgot to return to IT during the corporate refresh from the Bush administration (41 or 43, what's the difference?)."We promote from within" - Sure, if you work REALLY hard, you might be able to be promoted from Junior Peon I to Junior Peon II, but don't ask us to give you a bump in salary because of that - either because "you didn't do *that* great!" or "we just don't have it in the budget this year""We give opportunities to travel" -SCENARIO 1: You travel - from the office to a customer whose office is 5 blocks away -- don't even THINK about billing us for the miles because we know where you liveSCENARIO 2: You live on the road 340 days a year, so that means you don't have any pesky distractions like family and the like. You think you will be able to come home during the weekend? Not unless you pay for it yourself and can squeeze in that free time somewhere.SCENARIO 3: Sure - as long as you take coach, are willing to take connecting flights from SFO to LAX if it saves the company more than $50 and that those frequent flier miles you earn go right back to the company - you think that you get to keep those? The CEO needs them to go first class - after all *he* is an executive and who are you again?New (10/23/2012):SCENARIO 4: Sure - you can travel - just be prepared to share a room with Johnson who snores like a malfunctioning buzzsaw, Smith who watches PPV porn in the buff and tries to expense it as a "meal", and Thompson who argues with his wife on the phone until 3AM. Now if you piss us off, we'll put you in a room with Jones here who likes to go to strip clubs and enlist some of the talent if you know what I mean (wink wink)SCENARIO 5: Sure you can travel, but just be prepared to sleep in your rental car (a microcompact) if we can't find you a room within our budget. For the record, Motel 6 is considered a "Luxury" hotel according to our CFO so be careful about where you want to stay -- that is unless you want to take it out of YOUR paycheck. Yeah, we know the CEO stays in the best suite in the Four Seasons any time he travels, but remember, HE is the head of the company... you aren't!"We have a team environment here!" - if you think that either sitting in a bull pen with 20 others who live in conference calls *all* the time even though they sit right next to each other or blindly stare into their monitors with headphones on means that they work closely together, we are a tight knit group."We want a person who wants to be a player-coach" - in other words, we want a person who will be a player while everyone else "coaches" you (demands that you turn in the TPS report yesterday)Here are some new ones (09/28/2012):"We are like a family here" - in other words, if you like working in an environment where everyone acts either like a domineering parent or a spoiled child, you'll feel right at home here!"We provide benefits that are considered the best in the industry" - you mean that our swill that we call coffee, our fine eau du tap (that's tap water for those of you who don't speak French) and our high deductible HMO doesn't excite you? Well too damn bad because the boss needs to use the money earmarked for that to pay for her/his kid's drug rehab program, her/his partner's weekly therapy sessions and her/his canine acupuncture treatments. Now don't get us started on our two weeks of "PTO" which you need to use when we shut down our office at the end of the year and guess what, whatever you don't use does NOT roll over to the following year!"We only believe in hiring the best and brightest" - that is if you think that people with single digit IQs who gloat about how drunk they got over the weekend is the mark of true genius. See also "We only have "A" players work for us!""We provide flexible work hours" - Feel free to come to the office anytime between 8:00 and 8:01 AM and stay until 9 or 10PM 7 days a week. We won't mind at all if you stay longer, but that's your choice -- everyone else will...And some more (09/30/2012):"We have a strong management team"-OPTION 1: This company was the brainchild of three college buddies who were getting drunk/smoking pot/playing World of Warcraft. One Saturday night, they came up with this "innovative" iPhone app company/social networking site and decided to drop out from their liberal arts program to make their millions. Thanks to Facebook/Twitter/etc, they caught the eye of leading VCs who decided to invest millions of dollars into the company even though they don't have a clue about how to monetize it or build a prototype that doesn't break and crash your system.OPTION 2: We have an incredible executive team but one noteworthy VPs is only 25, but he founded six companies before he was 22, sold 5 of them and 1 went public. It hasn't gotten to his head though, but he does write a blog with thousands of followers where he shares his "insightful" management advice to other millenials like "Don't hire anyone over 30 - they are too old to learn anything" or "If you don't have billions like me by now, you might as well go work at Starbucks, if you are lucky!""We have a casual dress code" -OPTION 1: Don't be surprised if you see the CEO walking around in his jammies, a bathrobe and bunny slippers - it helps him "think". Don't make any comments about it or you'll be fired faster than you can possibly imagine.OPTION 2: Sure, feel free to wear whatever you want, but those jeans better be "dressy" (Translation: cost more than $200) and a nice shirt (a $150 linen shirt will do nicely). If you wear a pair of $300 Converse All Stars (or some fancy Italian brand from your trip in Italy), you will fit right in! Just remember, we do pay top dollar, at least compared to Foxconn in China.OPTION 3: Don't mind Steve over there, he's our office nudist, but he does puts a towel on during our daily SCRUMs because we don't want to offend anyone and well... he had an accident once and we can't afford to clean the carpets AGAIN."We have an open floorplan" - we are too cheap to buy cubicles since we invested our money into fancy hardware (see above) or in a building in an area that has obscenely huge rent (SoMa, Silicon Alley, etc.), but we got a "steal" since we are sharing it with 7 other companies, including a blow dry bar, a foot massage parlor, two social networking sites, a consulting firm, a food kitchen that doubles as a performance space on weekends, a "consulting company", and an iPhone app company we bought 6 months ago for only $100MM."We have a young, hip office" - We have an amazing kitchen with a kegerator available at any time, a fridge stocked with the latest junk food from Albania, and mini-bar that would rival anything you would see with your buddies during the weekend. Fee free to partake at ANY time, after all - our chief engineer walks around wasted most of the time anyways."We have a diverse staff here" - We have people of all ages here - we even have a 35 year old guy around here somewhere - he's a little old, but we think he lends a different perspective that we would not consider."Everyone here is a coder" - Yes, even the receptionist knows how to program in at least eight programming languages, so don't feel too stupid if you only know Javascript, Java, Jython, Python, and C++."We are in the 'xyz' space" - We have a brilliant idea that is very similar to ten other companies in the market and swap employees more often than swingers change their partners!"Don't worry, this interview will be easy" - We will ask you questions based off esoteric functions that no one ever uses and expect you to build an entire application on a whiteboard in 15 minutes - no pressure!Here are some new ones (10/11/2012):"We have a work hard / play hard culture" - All employees are required to work until they pass out, but hey, it's all good because we have happy hours every Friday -- just remember to get back to work afterwards because we don't pay you to slack off!"We will be the next 'xyz'" - Our idea has been replicated so many times by so many different companies that we have lost track - but hey, the Street is stupid and they'll throw us money anyways because we put the right words in our investor presentation!"We believe in personal growth" - We fully expect you to learn the latest and greatest technologies on your own without surfing the web, taking classes and the like - after all, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger right?"We have a great healthcare package!" - We have a half filled bottle of aspirin that someone left a while back and three bandaids in a first-aid kit around here somewhere."We provide unlimited vacation days" - We plan to work you so hard that you won't be able to take any time off. If you do take a day off, be prepared to see someone else sitting at your desk when you get back.NEW (02.09.2015)"We (tend to) promote from within" - "We really don't plan to hire anyone for this job except for either the boss' best friend or transfer someone that might have the skills (like the receptionist that would be the perfect Director of Product Marketing), but we want to show the world we are a growing company.""XYZ skill is strongly preferred" - "Don't bother applying for this job unless you worked for a well known competitor, invented the technology, or are a subject/domain expert. Neither your boss nor the CEO know a thing about the subject, but we expect our less senior level employees to know everything about XYZ.""We want player coaches..." - "The CEO is the only true manager; everyone reports to him. Even if you are a VP, you won't have any direct reports for the foreseeable future (if ever)."NEW (03.12.2015):"We believe in open allocation" - The CEO and the rest of the executive team are too busy playing DOMA/counting their money they got from some gullible angel/getting drunk (or stoned)/doing cosplay/reading reddit (or 4chan)/downloading illicit torrents/surfing for porn online/going out for coffee/hitting on the interns to tell you what to do. Don't worry though, you will be given tons of money to hire a bunch of 1099 contractors (at $10/hour), to work for you."The potential income you will receive is unlimited" - You will be a 1099 contractor where you have to provide your own equipment (don't forget your health and car insurance because we can't take care of you -- the CEO on the other hand is insured for billions), pay for goodies to wow your customers, and more. Long story short, if you make $4.50/hour you are doing great!