Sometimes I Feel Like This - Dispatcher

Sometimes (we all do at times) I come home feeling as if I am barely hanging on to what is left in the day! Exhausted with what the world has left me. Imagine my surprise when I walked in the door, walk into the kitchen and glance out at the large tree (of which 2/3 of it is gone since it decided to drop several branches this summer when the honey was in school, attempting to take the power line to the house with it..... I digress) You look out at the tree to make sure its still standing and in the tree you see this......

And you walk away... Only to stop and go back to take another look. Then shaking your head you start rushing to the Office to grab the camera praying Gertrude (yes I have a pet squirrel in the back and this is him) will stay in place long enough to get a good picture!

Gertrude hung on here for about 20 minutes while he chewed off all the seed pods and let them fall to the ground.

Tomorrow I will be raking them up!

Get On The Line!! - Dispatcher

Today I sat here wondering... Getting angry inside and a little miffed. The Dispatcher next to me has taken 4 calls. I am on my 20th. I don't usually count but today is just the last straw in my brain as I know I have taken my share and a portion of her's.

I wonder were she goes. All day long she sit's down logs in gets up and disappears. She walks in to the back room takes a call and leaves again. She is gone for several mins to 30 or so and sits back down again. She has made several calls to business' asking them to hold items for her till she gets off work and then up again and leaving.

I get angry that no one is saying anything. But then again, why should I? She is the same person that never works. No one ever complains about her, or so it seems, I should be learning my lesson.

I am miffed that nothing is done and she is allowed to act like that. I just know she has to know where the bodies are burried. (thats a term for she has dirt on someone!).

So tonight of all nights I have my bible study to attend to. I drive there, not in the mood, and sit very quiet. I'm trying to listen to her but her words just go in one ear and out the other. I thank God silently that I own the DVD's so I can listen to them when I am more able to comprehend what my ears are hearing.

Then it happens! She (Beth Moore) starts to yell about how she had to do something that she didn't want to do. She goes on talking directly to me. Everyone in the room ceases to exist as I hear God (thru Beth) telling me what to do.

Get on the line girl!!! Don't be standing over there! Get on the line I drew for you, right here! No, not by it, ON IT!!!! I made you to do this work! It's none of your business the lack of work others are doing. It is your business that MY people get help. If your the one to do it then so be it!! That is why I made you! Stick your tongue to the roof of your mouth and hold your words!! I AM in control!

Whew!!! And here all along I thought I was in charge! Hahahahahaa

First Responders - Dispatchers

Stop the presses!! I had to watch a training video!! (I love em, means more knitting time while I learn something!). This video was on disease's and bad health stuff and first responders and how our state has put a plan together!

So, in short, our lovely state basically has said in this video that in case a flu epidemic comes our way, that they are prepared. They went on to say that since the first responders are the one's that go into these home's and make contact with so many people (of which they can't control) they would be the first on the list to get vaccinated if they wanted to be.

They also went on to say that in case of an anthrax or some type of disease that was spread that needed antibiotics that the Officers and each of their family members would get a supply to help them not get sick, or get better!

Interesting video indeed it was. But I wonder, seeing the news and the long lines that are forming all over this area for people to get the vaccine, I have not received one email or letter and neither has my officer on when the first responders will be getting their shots.

In fact, read Life While Handcuffed to a Lawman's post her whole family is sick with it. (Oh great my officer just coughed!!!! Tissue people.. hand me a darn tissue!!!)

I just have one thing to say! Shame on my state for forgetting the first responders! They should have had the option to at least of been able to get it - if they wanted it!

I Can Disconnect Now - Dispatcher

I'll be the first to admit I put way to many updates in my calls. But I'm just going along the line's that 'hey, there can never be to much info in a call right?'. Except when I deal with one Officer. Read This... Then we will go on!

Yep, same one! One of the jewel's of our bunch here. I get a 911 call, Domestic Disturbance and units are en route. The first thing I do is make sure the female is safe, after I have confirmed the location of where this occured and then where she is. I start getting a description of the male and weapons info and how he is threatening to hurt himself. In fact, I have her on the line and safe I'm getting all I can! Vehicles he could poss drive and the knife description he owns and what drugs he is known to use. You name it... It's going in the call.

Then I get the message from the radio dispatcher 'Per officer If female is safe you can hang up.' So I do just that. I don't agree with it. I still have questions but I learned I don't questions Officer's or Sargent's or my Supervisor's. I do what they say.

I send a message to the radio dispatcher and the officer that I was no longer on the line with her as requested. Then I get the message from the officer. 'Once you determined she was safe and her location your job ends at that moment.'

Really?????

So Smarty Officer did you copy his description that came just after I determined she was safe and out of danger? Did you copy the next update that he wouldn't let her leave the house to call police or security? And, did you copy the update about how he had a knife, with the size of the blade and threatening to cut himself all up!!!!?? Tell me you didn't need that info?

Ok, I have vented..but please Officer's out there tell me... Would you want that info.. or just get the address and hang up? Cause, it's officer's that do this to me in here that make me question every extra question I ask!

Bartering 4 No Calls - Dispatcher

It was an innocent enough morning as my partner and I are on the radio logging the morning day folks on. I think some of them have forgotten how to log on to their vehicles, but I digress. My screen is filling up, the units are loggin on, the calls are coming in and I relax in my chair as I get them all handled.

Then we hear it! The call comes in, the dispatcher is yelling (don't ask me why!), there's an accident with injuries. The other channel operator says it first "Don't send it to me!"

I reply "Why not?"

"I don't want it!"

"and you think I do?"

"I'm covering 3 area's!" She exclaims

"I've got 2" and I up her "and I have parole units!"

"I have the wagon and detectives!"

So I reply... "I have Crime Suprresion units logged on and THERE WORKING!"

Her reply - "Oh you win!"

We both won - Accident on the Highway!!! Not our territory! We never even saw the call on our screen's. The dispatcher on phones was laughing at us waiting for us to finish and then piped up.. It's neither!

Megans Law - Dispatcher

You gotta love the call! Female calls in wanting to verify the website we gave her for megan's law. I read it to her and she still says she is coming up with the wrong site. So I type it in myself and get to the right site! I have her erase and retype it in her address bar this time pheonticly spelling it for her and again, wrong site!

Finally, near pulling my hair out she tells me - You would think yahoo would have the site!

It dawns on me that she is actually on the search line typing in the website address. Of course it would bring up a pay-to-use site!! So I have her go to the address tool bar and type in the website and boom - you hear it in her voice!

She exclaims out loud and I say it! I didn't mean for it to come out of my mouth but I am so thankful that she laughed out loud.. and agreed with me!

What did I say? "Thats just a blonde kind of thing!"

Officer Smith - Dispatcher

I am sitting at work, phone's ringing and coming to life in my ear when a caller ask's me. "Is Officer Smith in today?" Now, we have several Officer Smith's as I am sure most large agencies do. But in my brain it doesn't register. What does register is Officer Smith's Blog!!

I'm sitting there thinking 'Why in the world do they think he works for this agency?' and 'Are they fishing around to see if they can find him?' With in those few seconds that my brain was registering I was gearing up a way to tell them in one fail swoop - 'Nope, wrong department and it's non of your business if he even exists!'

Then it hits me.... They are calling for one of our Officer Smith's!!! And he was on duty and waiting apparently for this person to call back.

You gotta love it though. So protective over the privacy of any LEO - No matter where they work!