“However, it sounds like you and Chris can have some fun reporting that sheriff to his superiors for doing such a poor job. ”

I serioiusly don’t recommend that. Sheriff is very probably an elected position and getting a sheriff mad at you is a recipe for pain — in practice, he reports mainly to the voters. See the current events with Sheriff Arpaio in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Best of luck getting a decent resolution on this. At the very least, that manager should have to buy you an Amazon gift certificate or something for your inconvenience…

* The Oakland cop story:
When I was a young long-hair hanging out with other long-haired folk, a cop stopped my VW for a past-due registration. He made some rude and improper remarks about how I probably had lots of outstanding tickets because I was a hippie which I considered harassing behavior. When he returned from “checking me out” (no outstanding tickets, by the way), I had gathered a paper and pencil and made a show of taking down his badge number. All of a sudden he started being conciliatory and took a completely different tone. A few days later, I went down to the Internal Affairs Office of the OPD to make a formal complaint about his behavior. As I was telling my story, another officer walked in and asked the officer I was talking to, “What’s this one about?”, and the officer said something like, “It’s Charlie, again.” Turned out the nasty copy was burning out and was under investigation by IA. I left it in their hands to do the right thing.