Now, we know this question might cause some flame ups. Hopefully, both sides of the mic can post some responses that may better our communications between the dispatchers and officers. Certain issues tend to grate on everyones nerves, but we've never had a forum to discuss problems.
Saturday, July 5, 2008
What gets on your nerves?
Now, we know this question might cause some flame ups. Hopefully, both sides of the mic can post some responses that may better our communications between the dispatchers and officers. Certain issues tend to grate on everyones nerves, but we've never had a forum to discuss problems.
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officers with the same map book as dispatch and when sent to a non emergency call that ask for a location. Officer who ask to run a tag, when they clearly hear a chase going on. And officer who call the 2700 number for number and address to lou's tire and auto on their day off. We are not information.
Officers who hang out on a report call for two hours at the start of a shift.Officers who know they are doing nothing but request additional until you send a LT, than they clear the call. Motor officers that don't want a traffic call away from DUNKIN DONUT
TATTLETALES, WHO CALL THE DISPATCHER WHEN A CAR IA DISPATCHED ON A CALL, GIVES THEIR LOCATION AND IMMEDIATELY THE PHONE RINGS AND MR OR MS TATTLETALE SAYS IN A FURTIVE VOICE, THAT IS REALLY NOT WHERE THAT CAR IS, JUST THOUGHT YOU OUGHT TO KNOW...
dispatchers who unplug their headset and crank up the volume at the slightest 30 second foot chase, i cannot hear my cars right next to all of that, just handle it!!!
#1. The genius that decided to require the ward number on the reports or whatever it is officers have to do now that's got them all angry so they are just gonnna "ask the dispatcher" the ward on every call like the PST's do.
#2. Officers that don't listen to the call when it is put out and we have to repeat the ENTIRE narrative when they are about to make the scene. I can understand the numbers, names, and/or description. But don't okay the call if you don't know what it is you are about to go and HANDLE. You are putting yourself in danger. And don't call and ask on the service desk. Warning... I am gonna put you on hold, advise your dispatcher the answer to your question, have them put it out over the air, then pick up and ask did you your information if you don't hang up first.
#3. Officers with a radio that call station b for their information instead of getting in line like everyone else. Another warning... I am still gonna put you in line. You will get put on hold, all the other cars in line will be handled, then I will pick up and handle your request. Fair is fair. Quit stepping on and over your coworkers. We got enough of that going on in suite 1225 already. Don't do it in the field too.
#4 Dispatchers that sit on the radio and talk crazy to their officers the entire time! Stop that shit. It just makes it hard for me when I have to sit down behind your ass! Calm down. Usually it ain't the whole pct acting crazy and if it is get over it. 2 wrongs done make a right and you know our supvs will have you in the office "pimpin you with the pen" as another writer put as soon as on officer calls to complain about your attitude.
Now who is it that unplugs so everyone can hear their chase? That's a new one on me!!! That's foul. If you need help just ask for it but don't make everyone listen to your chase. I need to work some charlie overtime to see this!
Dispatchers that are too busy checking their blackplanet.com or myspace.com accounts to run a tag.
Dispatcher are not to lazy to run a tag, they know as you do, you can run your own tags you do have the hand held device if you paid attention in training on how to use it you would.Dispatcher don't have time to look at blackplanet.com as you say. They spend their time trying to locate lazy officers for calls holding.
It is a violation of policy to use the PDA while operating a motor vehicle. So unless I have already stopped the tag I need ran, I have to ask my lazy dispatcher to put down her book or minimize her internet explorer and run the tag. I'm not going to stop a vehicle before I know the QV so I am forced to ask my lazy dispatcher to run the tag. Lord knows she is probably on the phone cackling away with her significant other or yacking away with her buddy on the console next to her. Lord help me if I have interupted some juicy gossip. If I have, I'll get, "We're down at the console." Even though every other console is up. Single consoles don't go down, except Station B. Precinct consoles go down as a whole, but not individually. Station B is it's own beast. Giving the dispacthers internet access is a stupid idea. All they do is make comments on their friends profiles and try to hook up with man whores.
Asking an officer if he/she can clear and receiving the response, "Are you holding something in my ward?". It doesn't matter where the call is, someone needs to handle it.
Asking an officer if he/she can clear and receiving the response, "negative", only to give the call to someone else and then have that same officer say, "Disregard them, I'll make that call." - Either you can clear or you can't.
Having said that, when it happens, I am just going to do what I have to do and keep going. Officers and Dispatchers alike have to put up with so much that it is perfectly understandable to expect to rub each other the wrong way at some point throughout the shift. We all need to stop taking it personally and just do the jobs we are being paid to do. Imagine what a great department we would have if we all came together and pulled the rope in the same direction instead of this perpetual tug-of-war.
We can blame the Administration for quite a lot and our supervisors can shoulder some blame as well, but when all is said and done, we are each responsible for our own actions.
"Dispatchers that are too busy checking their blackplanet.com or myspace.com accounts to run a tag."
Quit running tags then you suck ass rookie PUNK!
And no I'm not a dispatcher.
Dispatcher are not to lazy to run a tag, they know as you do, you can run your own tags you do have the hand held device if you paid attention in training on how to use it you would.Dispatcher don't have time to look at blackplanet.com as you say. They spend their time trying to locate lazy officers for calls holding.
BS... I sit by all the time watching dispatcher telling officers we are down just so they dont have to run tags. Yes we do go down alot. We have Fucked up equipment that isnt maintained properly, but if you let teh proper people know, it will be fixed.
It is a violation of policy to use the PDA while operating a motor vehicle.
Since when did officers give a damn about any violation of company policy? Its a violation to hang out on calls, Its a violation to be nonresponsive when a dispatcher raise your number and have to get all radios to try and raise you. Its a violation to pretend you are still working a call until I say signal C, you heard every bit of that. You can damn well violate and run you own damn tags using your PDA, I rode with an officer who did every time. you dial your cell while moving so don't give me that crap! and there is no longer any internet excess, so if we don't run your tags, it means we are trying to clear all th calls waiting for those officer we have to locate all day.We are trying to put out calls that really require our attention and yours too if you would just stop putting out tags to keep from doing any real work. Heaven forbid we send you somewhere outside your ward, you don't pay for gas but you can't go cause you might miss free fresh coffee at the mapco or free food at one of the many fast food places you spend half the day at. We do our jobs we just need you to do yours. And if we were checking email or gossiping just know we are always checking for YOU!!!!! and your safety.
It gets on my nerves when an officer has attitude right out the box. If you got your ass chewed in rollcall don't take it out on me.If i send you out of your ward take it out on your fellow officers hanging out on the same call for 2hours not me. If you don't like your job remember at the training academy you went through alot of shit to get it, so do it.As Ms Clark says "if you in it you on it" so don't take your fucked up attitude out on me save for when you get home and kick the dog and beat the wife, whatever you do DON'T TAKE IT OUT ON ME! cause it makes me want to fuck with you even more, thats called doing my job....wpaj881
I dont understand why officers ask their dispatchers for address to a business that they are sitting right in front of, most of the time the numbers are on the building or sign. Why do desk officers call 2700 or station b for an address they can look up in the phone book sitting right next to them? I am a dispatcher, NOT a secretary. I dont mind looking for officers on a report call and they need it for their narrative.
Oh no, Heaven forbid you look up an address....had an officer ask me as kind as you could be to look one up last night - took me all of 15 seconds, and I didn't mind a bit. I consider it a part of the job; he's busy with comps talking away in his ear, or trying to watch traffic, or yeah...maybe he is also trying to eat a burger or sip some coffee. Good for him/her; he probably needs a break after the ragging we've been forced to give him. I'm not going to stress over it; makes their life simpler, makes mine simpler.
However, what does piss me off, is when an officer keys up directly in the middle of my transmission or broadcast...and its no accident, because I didn't just start speaking...and asks me to run a tag, or show him transporting, or changing his loc, or to look up said address.
And I know we're supposed to keep talking over them; but I feel that if that one day comes where that officer has something critical to say, or is involved in something hot and I keep talking over him, I might not have a 2nd chance to raise him and get that info...so I have to stop, hear him or her out, and then REPEAT my original call, transmission or broadcast.
That does get on my nerves.
Oh no, Heaven forbid you look up an address....had an officer ask me as kind as you could be to look one up last night - took me all of 15 seconds, and I didn't mind a bit. I consider it a part of the job; he's busy with comps talking away in his ear, or trying to watch traffic, or yeah...maybe he is also trying to eat a burger or sip some coffee. Good for him/her; he probably needs a break after the ragging we've been forced to give him. I'm not going to stress over it; makes their life simpler, makes mine simpler.?
July 6, 2008 10:54 AM
Excuse me.. Im not saying anything about the officers who are actually working a call..Im talking about the ones who all they have to do is look at the building and get the numbers.. or the desk officer too lazy to open the phone book sitting next to her..and that is what is stated in my posting, if you would get of your high and mighty horse and read it///////////
I always look up addresses willingly. I also run tags and vins (when we are up at the console).
Oh no, Heaven forbid you look up an address....had an officer ask me as kind as you could be to look one up last night - took me all of 15 seconds, and I didn't mind a bit. I consider it a part of the job; he's busy with comps talking away in his ear, or trying to watch traffic, or yeah...maybe he is also trying to eat a burger or sip some coffee. Good for him/her; he probably needs a break after the ragging we've been forced to give him. I'm not going to stress over it; makes their life simpler, makes mine simpler.
It would be nice if you could rotate all shifts and do just that all day, and if you don't mind we don't mind. It would make our life less stessed with B/S
Correction the word is stressed, typing to fast.
Oh no, Heaven forbid you look up an address....had an officer ask me as kind as you could be to look one up last night - took me all of 15 seconds, and I didn't mind a bit. I consider it a part of the job; he's busy with comps talking away in his ear, or trying to watch traffic, or yeah...maybe he is also trying to eat a burger or sip some coffee. Good for him/her; he probably needs a break after the ragging we've been forced to give him. I'm not going to stress over it; makes their life simpler, makes mine simpler.?
You must be on the alpha shift, where all you have to do is sleep, so i can understand your willingness to assist, to keep from biting your hands off with boredom. I understand you booboo
It gets on my nerves when an officer has attitude right out the box. If you got your ass chewed in rollcall don't take it out on me.If i send you out of your ward take it out on your fellow officers hanging out on the same call for 2hours not me. If you don't like your job remember at the training academy you went through alot of shit to get it, so do it.As Ms Clark says "if you in it you on it" so don't take your fucked up attitude out on me save for when you get home and kick the dog and beat the wife, whatever you do DON'T TAKE IT OUT ON ME! cause it makes me want to fuck with you even more, thats called doing my job....wpaj881
July 6, 2008 10:48 AM
That goes both ways. There are several dispatchers who treat officer lower than dirt. ALL the time. Just because your baby daddy didnt pay child support this week or you didnt get any last night doesnt give you a right to treat all the officers like that. Now if one of said officers is your baby daddy then handle that off the clock.. Its not the other officers fault you fucked the wrong one.
Actually, I'm a Charlie shifter, so no..I had plenty to do, especially with those storms that rolled through. Still found the time.
If I was Alpha, I'd probably be sleeping right now.
However, I do agree with you; seems like the desk officer could search their own addresses.
That goes both ways. There are several dispatchers who treat officer lower than dirt. ALL the time. Just because your baby daddy didnt pay child support this week or you didnt get any last night doesnt give you a right to treat all the officers like that. Now if one of said officers is your baby daddy then handle that off the clock.. Its not the other officers fault you fucked the wrong one.
LMAO.....GOOD ONE
Yes charlie shift is busy, yes we have a bunch of smart mouthed rookies who think they are experts, but we work real well together in a time of need. There are a few who are afraid to help because all hell might break out on their radios if they do. We have a good team when we do work together.
Dispatchers can polish their nails, read a book, balance their check book, check the internet,plan a dinner menu, call the dentist and still hear you when you key up and handle whatever request you have. Officer get a dog call and they hang out on it for 6hrs, and show special at the precient with car trouble. Don't get it twisted we do our job, officers need to do theirs. It was'nt us that got caught hanging out at the union hall a whole shift. Noise that go bump in the night requires an officers we just have to find one.
and the stupid officer that wants to say dispatchers stay on the internet, know what u are talking about the internet aint even on all of the computers, ddduuuhhhh!! however you have a PDA that does have the internet on it so why dont you stop surfing the net when you are spposed to be working, know what you are talking about
What really gets on my nerves is the fact that adults in positions that carry a great deal of responsibility cannot discuss problems, grievances and possible solutions without pointing fingers, calling names and hurling insults. Using this forum in that manner is only doing more damage and compounding the problems.
I am issuing a challenge to all of you to use this platform in a more positive way. And I further challenge you, dispatchers and officers, to says something complimentary about each other. We are all in this together, let's cover each other's backs instead of stabbing each other in it.
The white dispatchers are not in touch with what Memphis is about. Yall need to get on down. Go home retire or leave. There is a new supervisor in town and she be knowin all your dirt. So ya can just hang it up cause she gonna be takin care of US.
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I thought this was about taking and dispatching calls, officers responding and all of us doing the jobs we were hired to do. You mean to tell me it is actually about being black and that white people need to go? Wow, I missed that at my orientation and obviously never saw the P & P update. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I will start wearing my uniform pants half way down my ass and discard my grammar skills immediately.
Can I get a grill at Shaprio's?
What gets on my nerves is when dispatch sends you on a call in someone else's ward and right after getting the call she'll asks if that ward car is in service, but when they get in service, she won't diregard you.
One other thing, why are the hazards not showing up on calls? is the CAD tech not entering them or what? The reason that the hazards are written is for officer safety. Why does it take 3-4 memos every time just to get it in the system? Half the time the hazard is listed on the address, but the information is not given to the oftentimes lone officer that dispatch sent on the call.
is it going to take someone getting killed before this is fixed?
anyways, until other officers start handling their own wards again, I'll be busy reading my book and waiting for a call to go out in my ward.
Regarding the hazards...I was told that hazards and new addresses are sometimes held...yes...held...until there are a cartain number of them...so that they can all be entered at the same time....I can't quite understand that but I was told that by management in an inservice training.....years ago.
The white dispatchers are not in touch with what Memphis is about. Yall need to get on down. Go home retire or leave. There is a new supervisor in town and she be knowin all your dirt. So ya can just hang it up cause she gonna be takin care of US.
This blog was not written by any dispatcher, nor is this person African American. You can tell by the ignorance, it is not grammar anyone would use accept someone white that wants to stereotype. As far as the white dispatchers in communication we think you do a great job, for all of us black or white when we are in communications your being white is not the first second third or last thing on our minds. There is no new supervisor with that kind of mentality. This is just from someone thats very ignorant and wants to start a race baiting blog. Find somewhere else for this crap STUPID
regarding the hazards..
some of the hazards wont come up when we click on them. we were told for the longest that meant it was old and not to worry about it. we have recently found out there is a glitch in the system that is not showing the hazards in a timely mannar. also some call takers fail to ask the caller if the person in the hazard is still there. It isnt that we want someone to get hurt, it is the lack of training and working computer systems.
Morrow...lost some lbs and be thinkin shes fine
Let's see, what gets on my nerves?
A Dispatcher that put more miles on their feet than officers do in a car during an 8 hour shift. While some of us are busting our ass, you are chit-chatting away w/ your phone on "not ready" or even better, bouncing calls to the next person when you actually do have your phone on ready. When the rest of us are hitting the 50-60 call mark in just over 3 hours (keeping in mind we both have a 30 min lunch and 15 min break) and you enter 12-15 That's just messed up. But oh yea, I forgot, your think your special and you think everyone is scared of you. Wait till these supervisors change out. I'm sure one in particular won't take your shit and you wont know how to act with that phone ringing off the hook.
can i get a grill at Shapiro's???? Hahahaha LMAO!!!
good one
Do me a QV on TN...
That we have been promised a new site for years, but we're still in this shithole that's falling apart. Do we remember them bringing us blueprints of what the new site was going to look like, actually bringing up chairs for us to pick. What is the purpose of lying to us every year?
We continue to stay up there in that piece of shit, there are going to be more oji's. Either somebody is going to fall thru the floor or something is going to fall out of the ceiling.
You officers think most of us are lazy, we don't do our jobs, but half the time its because we don't have the technology. There are a set of apartments in the seast pct that the streets were not entered into our computers for almost three years. Hazards are not put in for weeks or months. Olive Branch just got a new site, I know we are bigger than them, but come on. I think our crime rate is a little bit bigger that we need better technology.
I wish that the officers that speak so badly about us, would just come sit up there with us for just a little while, so you could see what the limitations are.
Officer got lazy on lock. Don't ask them to check our work, we have o other choice but to work,sure there are one or two from each shift thats slow on the call takers side but when it comes to the radio we can't do anything else but answer. If anything the officers need to prove to us they deserve their jobs, otherwise as far as i am concerned they spend too much time bitching about calls they are given and to show their displeasure they pout and whine like babies.Who cares what they think!!!!
Boy, I sure do miss Beth Fuller
I miss her too keep her in your prayers
We miss Beth too!!!
I miss Sam Henderson!!!!
Officer got lazy on lock. Don't ask them to check our work, we have o other choice but to work,sure there are one or two from each shift thats slow on the call takers side but when it comes to the radio we can't do anything else but answer. If anything the officers need to prove to us they deserve their jobs, otherwise as far as i am concerned they spend too much time bitching about calls they are given and to show their displeasure they pout and whine like babies.Who cares what they think!!!!
July 8, 2008 8:41 AM
Cynical much??!! Get over yourself. If some of them had a better understanding about what we do, they may not be so whinny. And maybe if you had any idea about what they did, you might not be so bitchy.
I already know I'll never be a dispatcher. I couldn't do their job and not be charged or fired. That said, Dispatchers as a whole (and there are 1 or 2 exceptions in all of communications, seem to think they are chess masters moving cars here and there, handling the call load. Dispatchers don't handle anything but a screen. The truth is experienced officers usually dispatch themselves through a series of specials and and routines and handle calls in their ward when they come out.
What gets on my nerves? First off, don't send me to a neighboring ward when those ward officers are in service.
When I get special somewhere, LOG THAT DAMN SPECIAL! Frequently there will be a change of dispatcher and I'll advise in service and the dispatcher will ask where my special was.
What if I was fighting for my very life and screamed over the radio to get some cars to my location? I'd be dead because some lazy ass dispatcher didn't log my special.
Having said that, I don't pretend to know what dispatchers go through in a day and at least I can put assholes I meet in jail. Dispatchers have no such vent that I know of. I couldn't dispatch... This I know.
Mrs. Butterbean for dispatcher of the month!
JUST LIKE I HAVE SAID BEFORE, OFFICERS, PLEASE WATCH OUT FOR EACH OTHER, THERE ARE SOME UP HERE WHO DO NOT LOG THE VIOLATERS, SPECIALS, ETC, UNBELIEVABLE AND DANGEROUS BUT TRUE.. I WANT TO SEND EVERYONE HOME SAFE TONIGHT!!! TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER OUT THERE, SOME OF US ACTUALLY CARE.
Luverne Fox!!!!! it would be worth taking up a collection to buy her fat ass a one way ticket out of Memphis, she has been on our last nerve for over 20+++ years
Cynical much??!! Get over yourself. If some of them had a better understanding about what we do, they may not be so whinny. And maybe if you had any idea about what they did, you might not be so bitchy.
Booboo,i have a very good understanding of what they do, and of course they have a clear understanding of our job. Sorry your man is one of the lazy officers i was talking about but fact is fact go read the MPD blog they said so themselves and they were not ashame to say they hang out on calls, won't clear calls,forcing someone from another ward to handle calls in their ward. Pull your head out of your ass and stop sucking up you won't score brownie points with them, or is it you want to make your man look good. bitchy or not its still my facts as i know them, don't like it kiss my ass!!!!!
Dispatch is the mobile officers life line like it or not. We rely on you sometimes more often than we should for information and direction to handle calls we know nothing about until we get there.
Well I am not going to clear...I am going to sit and drink my coffee in Mapco. I am going to play on the computer. I will get up and go help anybody that needs my help. I will answer priority calls. And the dispatcher has my cell if she really needs me to do something. The simple fact is that the rookies want to save the planet....let them.
The dispatchers are locked in a dungeon...of course they are going to have a bad attitude. I had to go up there years ago when the power went out at 201. I had to climb all those damn stairs. I spent 6 hours running cards from the call takers to the dispatchers. Let me say that they did not bitch too much even though it was about 100 degrees in there and we were all sweating our asses off.
In any group of people you will have those that are excited to be there, and those that have been there done that. After a couple of years that radio room has to suck. When the light flashes everybody needs to answer the phone, when the robbery or shooting goes out everybody needs to listen, when the rookie calls for help we all have to go. Even though I may drive slow enough to let him know he does not have a S on his chest.... I could go on
the fact that i file a complaint against another dispatcher on my shift and nothing ever happens. I go back and try to find out what was done and all the supervisor tells me is that it was handled. I dont know about you, but i think that is unfair treatment. And dont tell me they arent playing favorites because they are. Can we say hostile work enviroment ?
Durden Rules!!!
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Booboo,i have a very good understanding of what they do, and of course they have a clear understanding of our job. Sorry your man is one of the lazy officers i was talking about but fact is fact go read the MPD blog they said so themselves and they were not ashame to say they hang out on calls, won't clear calls,forcing someone from another ward to handle calls in their ward. Pull your head out of your ass and stop sucking up you won't score brownie points with them, or is it you want to make your man look good. bitchy or not its still my facts as i know them, don't like it kiss my ass!!!!!
Why do you assume I have a man on the department? Just to clear things up I don't. But it's common sense, most of the time they don't understand. I dont care if 1 or 2 people got on here and said they know what are job is. If they all did they wouldnt call asking about it. How about instead of attacking me you get some counseling for that anger issue. I wasnt trying to score brownie points, cause I'll put an officer in his place in a heartbeat. But I know the officers I have dealt with will work better when the understand why we do something.
What kind of person are you to get on here and tell me to kiss your ass? You are probably one of the many that is what is wrong with our department. I'm not saying anymore there was just no reason for your attack on me.
What kind of person are you to get on here and tell me to kiss your ass? You are probably one of the many that is what is wrong with our department. I'm not saying anymore there was just no reason for your attack on me.
Yes i said it kiss my ass!!!! go back and reread, you jumped my first comment and it was not an issue for you.You voiced your opinion and i stated mine. get over it!!!!
I have been gone for years and I miss all of y'all...officers and dispatchers!!! I love you guys!!!
cant we all just get along!!!
I have nothing bad to say about most dispatchers that work my precinct, most days my dispatchers are pleasant and don't give me any problems. The only real complaint I have is the lazy ass partners of mine. Please evryonce in awhile nag them till they get inservice and help with the calls. Just to keep my shift outa my ward I have work my ass off (simply because I like and respect everyone on my shift). So for a gift from my dispatchers please make the lazy asses work their wards as hard as I work my own.
The officers who say the dispatchers are always asking them to repeat their special location or tag information and then this happens.. Yesterday I had to repeat the description of a vehicle at least 10 times..yes, 10 times! Either they were asking me to because: 1) Like to hear me talk; 2) NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO THE RADIO; 3) just to piss me off..I would like to choose #1 but..However, I repeated it, without attitude, all 10 or more times that I was asked..what is the description on that vehicle? If you were doing it because of #3 - Stop it! I was nothing but nice (as always) on the radio and if by chance #2, you should never complain about a dispatcher asking you to repeat your location or tag.
The officers who say the dispatchers are always asking them to repeat their special location or tag information and then this happens.. Yesterday I had to repeat the description of a vehicle at least 10 times..yes, 10 times! Either they were asking me to because: 1) Like to hear me talk; 2) NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO THE RADIO; 3) just to piss me off..I would like to choose #1 but..However, I repeated it, without attitude, all 10 or more times that I was asked..what is the description on that vehicle? If you were doing it because of #3 - Stop it! I was nothing but nice (as always) on the radio and if by chance #2, you should never complain about a dispatcher asking you to repeat your location or tag.
LOL!!!I agree
I like to hear you talk...dispatchers say ir better...wpaj881.
Remember big sexy...900 she could dispatch a domestic and make it sound like a porn set..
I miss Beth, Sam, and Claudia. Remember the time Sam cussed out the whole north bravo shift over the air with a stuck mic for like 5minutes!!!
Dispatcher that can't be happy for anyone or get alone with anyone else cause they are the most miserable people at home and bring it to work,if you don't like your job quit.And stop yelling your complaints about the officers all day, just do your damn job.Hell they get stressed to. If they sent you to a call and you don't know what to expect. you may be a little on edge yourself i don't care how much training you had. NOW THAT'S WHAT GETS ON MY NERVE.
I just want to say that you all have a hard job and I know it. I dispatch for SCSO and have been up to your Comm Center and seen what you all have to deal with. I've got friends up there. On my shift at the county I have explained over and over again to my people that it's the stressors of the job in your environment that make us all short and sometimes rude to one another. I've told them that on a busy night for us, multiply that 10 times if not more.
I know you all have some really good dispatchers, so does SCSO. And yes, we all have some shitty ones as well.
I'm sure I've had unpleasant experiences on the phone with 1-2 of you, but I'm sure it's gone the other way.
I just have one thing to ask of you tho. Can you please look in your mapbook before calling us for address verification? A lot of times it's not even ours; it's Bartlett, Gtown, or Collierville. Since Mayor Willie keeps sucking up sections of the county and can't provide enough officers to patrol it, I know boundries get confusing. That's my only irk. Thanks for listening.
Again, I know you all have a helluva job to do and what a pressure cooker you all work in!! I appreciate you and the job you do. If I can ever help bridge the gap between our two divisions, please let me know!!!
Y'all be safe!
Besides the job where you are constantly nagged by your supv that nothing your doing is right, because your not doing it his way. Then you come on here to vent and are you cant even voice your opion because of some idiot, that thinks they know better than you, you try to explain yourself and they just make more rude comments. If its done in a way to say I really dont agree that's fine, but its the nearomindeness that I have a problem. Dont we have enough at work so we dont have to deal with each like this. Let people express their opion before you turn into the bad person that you can be.
1. Officers that advise in service from a call and will not advise the disposition on a call.By now EVERYONE should know we have to do this in order to clear you from a call.Believe me...we don't like doing it any more than officers like advising the information.But the powers that be have made it where we have to do this.
2. Officers that want to be shown on a special but haven't cleared the previous call or special.Then get pissed when asked to repeat something about the new location.Come on guys/gals..give us a break here.When you don't advise in,then want us to show you somewhere else..we have to do 5 things on the computer to make this happen and by then someone else wants radio time.
Oh yeah..please remember..my crystal ball is broken and cannot be repaired.No I don't have ESP nor am I psychic.If you don't tell me where you are,I haven't a clue.
We wan to see officers go home, when we go home, if you don't tell us where you are, or get in service and than change locations WTF!!!! we don't and try not to make the job harder or more stressful than it already is and we wish officers understand this we don't have a tracking device on your whereabouts,if you think you don't want to repeat yourself, say it clear the first time. Clear and show in service before you request a change of location. oh and if you hear someone in a real situation, don't come right behind them and ask for a tag to be ran, cause the officer with some shit about to jump off, gets my attention until he/she is clear all day. You will be standing by forever especially if those tags have nothing to do with the officer in a chase on foot or car.
OK, guys, if you want to really appreciate what you have now, take a look at how it was years ago:
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughestree/
I don't know about you guys....but I'm not gonna run a tag on my PDA WHILE I'm driving, and usually I only run tags on some type of stop that's somewhat important (IE Critical Incident Suspects). However, I do personally apologize for any attitude I've ever shown towards a dispatcher, sometimes we get frustrated dealing with idiots all day, and we don't mean to take it out on our own team. And as far as being lazy....I'm gonna assume there are lazy people on both sides of the radio.
Usually people ask you for a location to remind the other officers we're about to handle their ward when we know they're not busy. It's nothing personal.
Dispatchers, when these dipshit officers ask you to run a VIN tell them to switch to B. Nothing is worse than trying to key up over some fatass reading out a VIN they should be typing into their PDA.
Tell these idiots to buy a mapbook and steal a yellow pages from 201. And yes, I worked the desk the other night and there is a phonebook at the precinct.
Calltakers, dont forward crimes against persons to tel-serv. I am just going to send them back to you.
Idiots who ask their scene time 5 minutes after they arrived should be told "five minutes ago you forgetful fuck."
If an officer that jumps from special to special does get in, you should find them a report call immediately. If they get special on the way, save it for them.
If I hear another officer ask "what do you want me to do dispatch" after making the scene of a call, and I dont hear you say "try acting like the police" I am going to come down and write all dispatchers tickets.
If the D shift isnt logged on by 515 dont call me, I am pulling into my restaurant dujour. Call the D shift supervisor. If I get a report call after 2100, I will stay special for a week. I will handle alarms willingly after said hours. Manpower shortages are not my problem or fault and I will not feel any guilt for not rushing to get your board cleared. Neither should you. Besides it wont get you in trouble if I rush and screw up a call. Only I am screwed. I will always try to be a team player though.
If something is going down, it is not necessary to repeat everything that is said. It just ties up the radio. And definitely dont ask questions that clarify the situation for only the dispatcher. e.g "He ran BEHIND/TOWARDS the Walgreens." This does not require you to ask which direction. Officers making the scene can figure out "behind" and "towards" just by being there. Dont advise the Lt that soandso is involved in a foot chase. That is the one chase we still dont need permission for. Broadcasts on misdemeanor shoplifting, i.e. beer snatches from the next precinct we dont need to hear.
Most of you do a great job (Mark, chick with the lisp are my favorites). The less we all use the radio, the better off we all are.
6441 says:
I miss Glenda Landrum! But at least we still have Jameeta!
If an accident happens IN THE ROADWAY on Highway 64, it is NOT in Bartlett. If it happens on STAGE ROAD, it IS Bartlett. Fairly simple, right?
All of Highway 64 from Highway 70 East is City of Memphis and has been for about 10 years. When the City of Memphis annexed the Wolfchase Mall , Highway 64 became in Memphis. Everything south of Highway 64 from Highway 70 is in Memphis, however, Everything from the curb north of the roadway is in Bartlett...to I40. easy
Also...If a wreck occurs on Highway 64, then the people pull off onto a parking lot on the Bartlett side...MPD still needs to respond, because the accident took place on the ROADWAY ( In the City of Memphis)
LMAO!!!!
Get get on my nerves how these slutty woman in here try and use their job to get a date!!!
This is a job not dating service!!!
PLEASE ACT AS SUCH
Some or all of you need to work on your grammar."Dispatcher are not to lazy to run a tag". It's "dispatcher's". I hope you don't use ebonics on the radio.
Things haven't been the same since we changed from KUO-982
Jameeta for BI.....oops. I meant Dispatcher Of The Month...
OFF WITH HER HEAD!
Some or all of you need to work on your grammar."Dispatcher are not to lazy to run a tag". It's "dispatcher's". I hope you don't use ebonics on the radio.
July 26, 2008 2:55 PM
OBVIOUSLY, YOU USE EBONICS! IT IS NOT 'S BECAUSE IT IT THE SUBJECT OF THE SENTENCE WHICH MAKES IT A NOUN. IT SHOULD BE DISPATCHERS WITH AN "S" BECAUSE THE VERB ARE REPRESENTS A PLURAL SUBJECT!
NEXT TIME YOU FEEL LIKE CORRECTING SOMEONE, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU SUCCESSFULLY PASS ELEMENTARY LANGUAGE ARTS YOURSELF!! SMART ASS (SO YOU THINK ANYWAY)
Some or all of you need to work on your grammar."Dispatcher are not to lazy to run a tag". It's "dispatcher's". I hope you don't use ebonics on the radio.
July 26, 2008 2:55 PM
OBVIOUSLY, YOU USE EBONICS! IT IS NOT 'S BECAUSE IT IT THE SUBJECT OF THE SENTENCE WHICH MAKES IT A NOUN. IT SHOULD BE DISPATCHERS WITH AN "S" BECAUSE THE VERB ARE REPRESENTS A PLURAL SUBJECT!
NEXT TIME YOU FEEL LIKE CORRECTING SOMEONE, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU SUCCESSFULLY PASS ELEMENTARY LANGUAGE ARTS YOURSELF!! SMART ASS (SO YOU THINK ANYWAY)
OBVIOUSLY, YOU USE EBONICS! IT IS NOT 'S BECAUSE IT IT THE SUBJECT OF THE SENTENCE WHICH MAKES IT A NOUN. IT SHOULD BE DISPATCHERS WITH AN "S" BECAUSE THE VERB ARE REPRESENTS A PLURAL SUBJECT!
NEXT TIME YOU FEEL LIKE CORRECTING SOMEONE, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU SUCCESSFULLY PASS ELEMENTARY LANGUAGE ARTS YOURSELF!! SMART ASS (SO YOU THINK ANYWAY)
WTF!!!!!!! I am not the person you are talking too, however let me ask you this. WTF YOU TALKING ABOUT? You need to spell check your ass off......damn don't get at anybody until you know what the hell you are spelling out.... for real and kill the drama with the caps. NO ONE GIVES A DAMN
THIS THE F@#%, YOU BOVIOUSLY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH WORK TO DO! YOU CARE BECAUSE YOUR STUPID A$$ TOOK THE TIME TO REPLY.
YOU STARTED WITH THE EBONICS COMMENT NOT KNOWING WHEN TO MAKE A NOUN POSSESSIVE OR PLURAL. YOU DUMB GARBAGE B!TC#.
NEXT TIME, YOU GET AT SOMEBODY KNOW WTF YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
A TRUE EXAMPLE OF THE SHORT MEMORY SPAN OF DISFUNCTIONAL DISPATCHER!
THIS THE F@#%, YOU BOVIOUSLY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH WORK TO DO! YOU CARE BECAUSE YOUR STUPID A$$ TOOK THE TIME TO REPLY.
YOU STARTED WITH THE EBONICS COMMENT NOT KNOWING WHEN TO MAKE A NOUN POSSESSIVE OR PLURAL. YOU DUMB GARBAGE B!TC#.
NEXT TIME, YOU GET AT SOMEBODY KNOW WTF YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
A TRUE EXAMPLE OF THE SHORT MEMORY SPAN OF DISFUNCTIONAL DISPATCHER!
July 30, 2008 8:36 PM
Clown Clown Clown!!!!! Can we say stupid to the 10th power. So much anger,makes me think you must have been picked on when you were the ugly duckling in school, now you want to fight back with meaningless words....WOW, keep it coming show us how smart you are.
THIS THE F@#%, YOU BOVIOUSLY DON'T HAVE
What does BOVIOUSLY mean? It's not a word doodoo. Maybe if you did'nt drop out of elementary school and get your GED, you would know the word is obviously. It is an adverb also just so you the word obvious is an adjective. :et me you the former in a sentence for you. You OBVIOUSLY did not receive love from your parents as a child,otherwise you would agree to disagree with others or just shut up.
So much energy wasted on nonsense. Find something productive to do besides keep up mess.
I guess when you have no life, you have to find some type of pleasure the best way possible.
This is to the last two posters!!!!!!!!
So much energy wasted on nonsense. Find something productive to do besides keep up mess.
I guess when you have no life, you have to find some type of pleasure the best way possible.
This is to the last two posters!!!!!!!!
July 31, 2008 9:47 AM
Say what you want, i see you don't have a life either, especially since you posted a comment. talk about what you know and not what you think you know which is nothing!!!!! trick
GHETTO HOODRAT!!!
I DO HAVE A LIFE! I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO SAY TO A PERSON WITH SO LITTLE IGNORANCE AND CLASS!!
HOWEVER, I CAN GET ON YOUR LEVEL............
GO SUCK A D!(# B!+(%
I'M SURE YOU UNDERSTOOD THAT, SO YOUR DISMISSED BIIIITTTCCCH!
NOTHING ELSE TO SAY AND I WILL NOT ENTERTAIN ANYMORE OF YOUR COMMENTS.
KICK ROCKS TRICK!!!
GHETTO HOODRAT!!!
I DO HAVE A LIFE! I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO SAY TO A PERSON WITH SO LITTLE IGNORANCE AND CLASS!!
HOWEVER, I CAN GET ON YOUR LEVEL............
GO SUCK A D!(# B!+(%
I'M SURE YOU UNDERSTOOD THAT, SO YOUR DISMISSED BIIIITTTCCCH!
NOTHING ELSE TO SAY AND I WILL NOT ENTERTAIN ANYMORE OF YOUR COMMENTS.
KICK ROCKS TRICK!!!
GHETTO HOODRAT!!!
I DO HAVE A LIFE! I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO SAY TO A PERSON WITH SO LITTLE IGNORANCE AND CLASS!!
HOWEVER, I CAN GET ON YOUR LEVEL............
GO SUCK A D!(# B!+(%
I'M SURE YOU UNDERSTOOD THAT, SO YOUR DISMISSED BIIIITTTCCCH!
NOTHING ELSE TO SAY AND I WILL NOT ENTERTAIN ANYMORE OF YOUR COMMENTS.
KICK ROCKS TRICK!!!
August 2, 2008 8:55 AM
Wow, and you have the nerve to call anybody a hoodrat. you are not on my level, you are actually doing the real you and might i add a damn good job of it.It's always the ones with no class that try to play off having class judgeing by the comments you made about us not having a life, and you come up short as hell. I guess you fell like you told me, and you didi it all in caps....lmao!!!!! trick you played yourself, keep it up i am enjoying it all. Before i forget you do your response has nothing to do with what gets on your nerves right? however your response has a lot to do with how you were raised, can we say intercity dumb dumb....later trick
I hate when a goody goody hoe comes to work. Regina Webster you are not that good looking with that big as gap in your mouth! Bitch go buy some ass! It's hoe's like this that I hate. I bet she is a real bitch at home. It's bad enough you've been fucking a certain person and all of a sudden you get a day shift bid. Work you own shift bitch!!!!!!!!!
"Some or all of you need to work on your grammar."Dispatcher are not to lazy to run a tag". It's "dispatcher's". I hope you don't use ebonics on the radio."
If you're going to correct people, at least be correct yourself. Let me help you.
http://www.grammarbook.com
/punctuation/apostro.asp
Oh and I agree with dude a little further up, but I think "chick with the lisp" is the best. Sorry for that way of description but I don't know her name.
If you're going to correct people, at least be correct yourself. Let me help you.
It should not have an apostrophe. The comment was made in regards to a group not possession. An apostrophe does not make a noun plural.
Anyways, what get on my nerves are petty females in the workplace. If more focus is placed on providing excellent service to the officers, then there wouldn't be so much foolishness and envy.
If you're going to correct people, at least be correct yourself. Let me help you.
It should not have an apostrophe. The comment was made in regards to a group not possession. An apostrophe does not make a noun plural.
Anyways, what get on my nerves are petty females in the workplace. If more focus is placed on providing excellent service to the officers, then there wouldn't be so much foolishness and envy.
AMEN to the above.Thanks to whoever posted it.
I hate when a goody goody hoe comes to work. Regina Webster you are not that good looking with that big as gap in your mouth! Bitch go buy some ass! It's hoe's like this that I hate. I bet she is a real bitch at home. It's bad enough you've been fucking a certain person and all of a sudden you get a day shift bid. Work you own shift bitch!!!!!!!!!
August 2, 2008 10:42 PM
1. Do you think she is goody goody because she doesn't bother anyone?
2. Why do you hate her? Maybe she is prettier than you. Well, she is on the inside because you are evil.
3. Why are you looking at her behind?
4. If she is a real bitch at home, what difference does it make? Do you live with her? At least she is not a real bitch at work.
5. If it is not your man/woman that she is fucking, why are you concerned about it?
6. You have to have seniority to bid to day shift. So, it was just not given to her.
7. DAMN, leave that woman alone. She has probably never did anything to you.
P.S. A "hoe" is a garden tool.
hahahahahahahahahahahaha.....WOW
I see nothing has changed in dispatch! Don't feel bad, it's like that at other agencies too, just on a smaller scale.
I will say this, I've never laughed so hard after readin some of the stuff on here so thanks for the drama...keep up the good work!
ok, let's get back to what the forum was supposed to be used for and cut out all the stupid crap being put in here....i would list that as the #1 thing that gets on my nerves, a bunch of women doing what women do best,degrading themselves in front of a bunch of men...most of the comments i have seen could be solved if the nasty/hating commenting people had better morals than the alley cat that apparently they grew up with!!! Grow up ladies (and i use that term loosely with some of you)
let me assure all of you that read this blog, there are good dispatchers, with values that work in the department and do care about others!! but the handful of the low moral females writing on this blog do not represent the majority of the decent dispatchers that work in the department and it is time someone let it be known not everyone is as foul mouth, evil minded &filthy acting as the ones that i have seen in here lately..thank you for letting me get that out of my system
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