I found this on myspace:
You choose a resturant not on how good the food is but how many times this week you've eaten at it.
You have 8 hours of radios not by choice but b/c there's not enough radio dispatchers... then you beg for phones on your overtime
one word - mandatory
All your coworkers are quiting, retiring, or just disappearing.
"come to 102 please"
2 tape recorders in the conference room is a typical daily occurance... well it was for a while there.
You can have a full conversation using 10 codes and signal codes and your friends will never understand.
You catch yourself talking to officers, emsa workers, fire people, and other dispatchers not b/c they are interesting but b/c they are up at the same hours you are.
Trainee= you can do anything you want
12 hour shifts ... aint nothin..
Betty Doakes is your new best friend.
Santa Fe is the devil
You dont know people by their names but by their initials
You are used to saying the radios are messed up again.
During a pursuit the radio conveniently goes out again.. and MA/COM blames it on too much static.
You're not really for sure how to do the armed robbery tone anymore.
You have to sign a memo to promise you'll come in for your overtime.
coming to work at 3 really means 2:53.
You choose a resturant not on how good the food is but how many times this week you've eaten at it.
You have 8 hours of radios not by choice but b/c there's not enough radio dispatchers... then you beg for phones on your overtime
one word - mandatory
All your coworkers are quiting, retiring, or just disappearing.
"come to 102 please"
2 tape recorders in the conference room is a typical daily occurance... well it was for a while there.
You can have a full conversation using 10 codes and signal codes and your friends will never understand.
You catch yourself talking to officers, emsa workers, fire people, and other dispatchers not b/c they are interesting but b/c they are up at the same hours you are.
Trainee= you can do anything you want
12 hour shifts ... aint nothin..
Betty Doakes is your new best friend.
Santa Fe is the devil
You dont know people by their names but by their initials
You are used to saying the radios are messed up again.
During a pursuit the radio conveniently goes out again.. and MA/COM blames it on too much static.
You're not really for sure how to do the armed robbery tone anymore.
You have to sign a memo to promise you'll come in for your overtime.
coming to work at 3 really means 2:53.
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