I woke up feeling pretty crappy today and didn't really want to go to work!!!! I got myself dressed in my uniform and was getting my food together for the night when my phone rang. I was trying to get ready early so I could go and get some lunch. It was my boss on the phone telling me that one of my partners called in sick and she was wondering if I wanted to come in later so I could stay later. Usually I would have gone in at my usual time and taken the extra hours as comp, but because I have been feeling so crappy I decided that I would go in at 1630 hrs and work until 0400 hrs. I usually work from 1430 hrs to 0200 hrs. Tonight was terrible. I don't think anyone could have gotten along tonight if they were paid a million dollars. We had domestics up the ying yang!!!!! One after the other. I couldn't believe it!!!! I am used to maybe 1 or 2 a night, but come on....I think we ended up with 7!!!! Can't we all just get along!!! Obviously there was something in the water tonight. Talk about getting the adrenaline pumping!!!! I am going to be up for hours now, because I have to come down off my high! I am hoping that I am so exhausted by 0600 hrs that I will crash then. We will see.
To top my night off, we had someone who didn't really want to live call us tonight. These are always fun calls to get!!!! Not!!!! But I have to say that the officer who spoke with this individual did an amazing job!!!!! I am glad that he got to talk with this person and neither my partner nor I had to do it. It made the last couple of hours of my shift go by pretty quick, but now my adrenaline is so high, like I said before, that now I won't be able to sleep for hours. Hopefully it will only be 1 or 2 hours!!!!
All in a days work. A day in the life of a dispatcher.
I am going to go and read and try to calm down a little bit. I have stopped shaking, which is a good thing. I think I stopped a little bit after we started the call, I can't remember. My body goes into auto mode when there are things that I need to do and I know I need to do them now. I don't really remember much of what I did in the last few hours. Oh well.
I am out for the night.
Night, Kt
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October 18, 2007
August 29, 2007
Sleep... all I want is sleep
Here I am sitting at my computer again.... wishing I were sleeping. Dogs have been barking all morning or else they have been jumping into bed with me and won't stop moving. I wish that they new that I was sleeping and knew to be quiet. It would be so helpful if they did.
Anyway, I have worked the last 2 nights and boy people don't change!!!! I was hoping that when I came back from vacation I wouldn't notice how petty people are... in reference to my job. Boy was I wrong!!!!! Things have not changed at all. It is really sad what some people call the police for. Here is one of my favorite calls of all times. I have only been doing this for 4 1/2 yrs and have more stories to tell for some other time, but I will share this one.
We have a frequent flier(what we call people who call all the time) who we all know likes to hit the bottle. This person called in to inform us that she was locked inside her apartment. I know, I know... we are all asking... inside her apartment. That is correct, she was locked inside her apartment. So the call is given out to the officers. They all know this party and one of the officers respond. The officer arrived, got into the apartment and then she left. We didn't know what the officer had done to help this woman, but we were about to find out. So the same person calls in about 10 minutes later and tells us again that she is locked inside her apartment. I got on the radio and asked the officer who went to the earlier call to head back over the assist this party again. The officer proceeds to tell me to have her turn the lock toward the blue post-it note. Now, I didn't know what the officer did while she was at the apartment, but after hearing this I had to mute the call so I could laugh my ass off!!!!! Once I composed myself I picked the phone back up and passed on the info. Turn the lock toward the blue post-it note. The caller told me that she had taken all of the post-it notes down. The officer was sent back over there and took care of the problem again. All in a days work!!!!
The above caller(frequent flier) also likes to call and when I answer she usually says that she wants to talk with someone older. Okay, I am 25 and my partners are 25 and 26. I happen to sound like I am 12, but what does that matter, I guess she thinks that there is a 12 yr old that is answering 911 lines and has a full time job?!?!? So I do as she asks and hand the call over to my 26 yr old partner. And let me tell you how much she likes this!!!! Oh well, it is off my hands!!!!
I have more stories to tell and will post them sporatically. Did I tell you that this woman has sheep that don't like to stay inside the fence? That is for another time.
Anyway, I have worked the last 2 nights and boy people don't change!!!! I was hoping that when I came back from vacation I wouldn't notice how petty people are... in reference to my job. Boy was I wrong!!!!! Things have not changed at all. It is really sad what some people call the police for. Here is one of my favorite calls of all times. I have only been doing this for 4 1/2 yrs and have more stories to tell for some other time, but I will share this one.
We have a frequent flier(what we call people who call all the time) who we all know likes to hit the bottle. This person called in to inform us that she was locked inside her apartment. I know, I know... we are all asking... inside her apartment. That is correct, she was locked inside her apartment. So the call is given out to the officers. They all know this party and one of the officers respond. The officer arrived, got into the apartment and then she left. We didn't know what the officer had done to help this woman, but we were about to find out. So the same person calls in about 10 minutes later and tells us again that she is locked inside her apartment. I got on the radio and asked the officer who went to the earlier call to head back over the assist this party again. The officer proceeds to tell me to have her turn the lock toward the blue post-it note. Now, I didn't know what the officer did while she was at the apartment, but after hearing this I had to mute the call so I could laugh my ass off!!!!! Once I composed myself I picked the phone back up and passed on the info. Turn the lock toward the blue post-it note. The caller told me that she had taken all of the post-it notes down. The officer was sent back over there and took care of the problem again. All in a days work!!!!
The above caller(frequent flier) also likes to call and when I answer she usually says that she wants to talk with someone older. Okay, I am 25 and my partners are 25 and 26. I happen to sound like I am 12, but what does that matter, I guess she thinks that there is a 12 yr old that is answering 911 lines and has a full time job?!?!? So I do as she asks and hand the call over to my 26 yr old partner. And let me tell you how much she likes this!!!! Oh well, it is off my hands!!!!
I have more stories to tell and will post them sporatically. Did I tell you that this woman has sheep that don't like to stay inside the fence? That is for another time.
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