Happy Dispatcher

[EAFrizzle]

The UP dispatcher for Houston today seems to be having a better than average day at work.

It seems easier to get more of the dispatcher's personality on the rail lines than you can on public service. There's a guy I hear about once a month at night, definitely not happy to be there. Every once in a while someone at the PTRA gets bent out of shape at some poor engineer.

Any interesting dispatchers in your area?

 

[Enforcer52]

There is a Fire/EMS dispatcher in Walker County, TX that talks as fast as the guy in that old FedEx commercial, and you would swear from her excitement she was dispatching a quadruple murder!

I have noticed a lot of the dispatchers speak fast now days, guess they don't teach Slow, Clear, and Concise anymore when hiring them.

But then I don't think they teach it to many of the officers anymore either, they tend to talk fast also.

 

[jmp883]

Been an emergency services dispatcher for 30+ years and I have definitely noticed the trend towards faster speaking dispatchers. Faster is definitely not a mark of a good dispatcher. But I’ve worked with fast talkers who are proud of how quickly they can get a call dispatched. They seem to forget that they often have to repeat the call.

 

[robertwbob]

Been an emergency services dispatcher for 30+ years and I have definitely noticed the trend towards faster speaking dispatchers. Faster is definitely not a mark of a good dispatcher. But I’ve worked with fast talkers who are proud of how quickly they can get a call dispatched. They seem to forget that they often have to repeat the call.

that would bring out the turtle and rabbit race as true as its always been. or worse yet get excited and scream into the mic.
4 years ago when we had last tornado in my area we had a dispatcher that started doing that and really screwed up lines of communication ,hindering operations. a county deputy went in and took over. come to think of it ive never heard that guy dispatch after the tornado. but last week 1 was screaming about a 2 vehicle crash on I44. was told to slow down lower voice

 

[kudzu_kid]

Sometimes you gotta go slow to be fast!

 

[buddrousa]

Maybe they need to get jobs reading the disclaimers at the end of Drug Commericals.

 

[wa8pyr]

Better suited to the General Scanning Discussion forum, so I've moved this thread.