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GREAT NEWS EVERYONE! THE COMM CENTER COMMANDER HAS FINALLY DECIDED TO STEP UP AND WORK ON THE ONGOING ISSUES IN THE COMM CENTER. SADLY, HER FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS TO TRY TO CHANGE THE DRESS CODE. HOW SAD IS THAT. INSTEAD OF WORKING ON CURRENT AND MORE IMPORTANT ISSUES, LIKE OFFICER SAFETY, THE DRESS CODE IS HER NUMBER ONE PRIORITY. HAS ANYONE TOLD HER THAT THE YETIS' IN THE COMM CENTER PROBABLY ALREADY HAVE THEIR DOCTORS' NOTE READY? PLEASE EXCUSE THIS PERSON FROM WEARING REGULAR CLOTHING AND SHOES. BECAUSE OF EXCESS FAT, PAJAMAS AND FLIP FLOPS ARE RECOMMENDED. HOW LONG IS THE NEW DRESS CODE GOING TO LAST, I GIVE IT 1 WEEK.

THE NEW COMMANDER REALLY KNOWS HOW TO SHAKE THINGS UP! NOT! SHE LACKS THE ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE, AND WHEN SHE DOES, SHE GOES THROUGH DD TO DO IT. I DON'T KNOW WHO WAS WORSE, HER OR PM.

Dear Dispatcher 1,
Please seek employment with another agency. Life must be real bad when you have to wear a polo shirt and khaki pants.

Dispatcher 2

Can anyone tell me why some of the dispatchers look as if they are walking the green mile when they board the elevator to go upstairs. You say hello to them and the just look at you like they are going to a euthanization appointment. In fairness, this has only been the case with a few I have seen. Most of the others look and act normal.

It's a circus when you enter the doors. Some personnel thrive on back stabbing and doing what they can to humiliated others. Making lives of others difficult is thier goal and priority in life. Some don't like to be involved but need a job. The pay is above average, but you have to have a thick skin. Everything is everybodys business. Equity is a sore subjuct also. A few are best friends with a particular supervisor. I could go on, and on. Pull one of the frowners aside one day, or take them on a ride along and ask the what's going on. This is a great job for those with little or no education, nor ambition. So they come to work loving their job but go home with wounds every night. I bet you are sorry you asked now.

If the city needs to make budget cuts, they should start in the Comm. Center. Turn this debacle over to PCSO. This will provide the officers and citizens of clearwater with a safe a professional environment.

Polo and Khaki's were supposed to happen over a decade ago when the Comm Ctr gave away their uniforms (a cost to the city, not the employee) and received nothing in return for giving up the benefit. Long ago, employees wore uniforms and dispatcher badges (and looked nothing like a cop, more like an EMT) but certain employees complained that they were 'afraid' when they went out to lunch that someone would mistake them as cops and shoot at them. (Like when has that ever happened?) Alas, the dress code went out the window. I always hear how horrible comm ctr employees are, yet I also hear road units say they couldn't do it. If ya show up, do your job, care about the units on the road, and not about the gossip, or attempt to get to know the officers you work with, you'd become more of a team player. If you want PCSO to take over dispatchers all the way from Ulmerton Road, what would officers have to complain about? They couldn't see who was doing what in the Center, and the dispatchers would know no more about you than your unit number, and care even less. Anytime someone on the road wants to go sit in the chair and take over the radio, I'm sure you'd be welcome to prove how wonderful you are to everyone. All you'd have to do is ask and the chair is yours - you'd know it all, so there'd be no need to sit with anyone. When you don't feel like riding around all night, taking the calls the City pays you to take in your assigned zoned, contact your Sgt and see if you could just work the radio that night instead.

Dear Tuff Life,
YES, move all the dispatchers to Ulmerton Rd. Please clean house while doing so. Tkae the personnel with under 5 years, as they are still trainable and can the rest. Sorry I sound so cruel but make them walk. Well okay, there would be a few senior people i'd keep but no one married to a Sergeant pr anyone married to the PIO. Dispathcer 1 must also go because I want first looks at vacation bid.

Dispatcher2

When will people in the Comm Center realize we are our OWN WORST ENEMIES? Get over it already! So we MAY have to start wearing polos and jeans or khaki's...so what? And yes, there are THOSE people who will continually bring in a doctor's note to excuse them from just about anything., i.e. ..adhering to the dress code, can't sleep during the day when you work mids even though you KNEW this was shift work when you took the job. Oh, and wasn't there one person in there who had a doctor's note to work day shift because she was trying to get preganant? So suck it up, no one is perfect and everyone has flaws. The more we complain and bicker amongst ourselves the worse we make ourselves look. No wonder we are the laughing joke of the CPD. Just remember that lovely saying "People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" As for Dispatcher2 stating this job is for people with no education and no ambition, this job is hard; even for people with an education. If you feel this way why are YOU working here? You must have no ambition and/or no education. I agree the pay is good, so good at times that I make more than my friends who are working in the private sector with their college degrees...so can you explain that? I could go out tomorrow and find another job with my degree but I won't start anywhere near what I make here.

Hey dispatcher1, do us all a favor and just quit already...I'll never understand how someone can show up for a job that THEY applied for and just piss and moan about everyone and everything. I've never seen so many grown adults act like 5 year olds since I started here. If you're that miserable of a person, just go away!

Seniority Has It's Privleges. Do your time, and one day you too shall be able to bid the vacation and shifts you deserve after 18 or 20 years. Don't walk in the door thinking you'll get 4 weeks vacation any time you want along with the shift of your choice. I'm sure they told new hires that they'd have to be there a while before that happens. That' means longer than 'after your released'. Only Mommy and Daddy gave you what you wanted, when you wanted it - This is the real world.

I maintain that if Life is so Tuff sitting in an air conditioned room talking to officers, the public, and if you have to, each other - then I'm sure there are other places who'd love to hire you because of all your experience and knowledge. CPD isn't the only Law Enforcement Agency in the Land - you took someone elses spot when you were hired, and I'm sure there are people out there willing to take yours so you really won't be missed. Actually what happens after you leave is "remember that one dispatcher, what was their name again?" or better yet, you weren't a stand out in anyone's mind (except your own) so no one even brings you up in conversation days or weeks or even years later.

I guess I'm still waiting for someone to post which agency is so different, so wonderful, and stands out amongst the rest that no one ever leaves it, and it's dang near paradise to work in. Soon as that location is given, make sure you apply for it. Like before, I read the Dispatcher Thread and the departments that post there have all the same problems, issues, schedule pains, vacation gripes as we do, just different names in different departments.

Euphoria must be out there, please don't hesitate to go looking for

Tuff Life,
You are so correct that seniority has its privileges. Does one have to gloat every time a shift bid or vacation bid comes out. Does one routinely have to throw temper tantrums and fits of slamming drawers? NO. But it always happens. Lets try it a different way and maybe you will understand. “LEAD BY EXAMPLE”. I think most of the employees in the center are doing this. This is the PROBLEM. There is no good example, other than JM. Even JM tries to enforce rules but it becomes a losing battle when others don’t. We could fill pages with complaints but nothing is going to change until all the supervisors enforce the same rules across the board. I truly believe this mayhem was brought on by the supervisors inept ability to lead by example. Leading by example includes enforcing policies and procedures already established. Not tolerating tardiness and completely stopping the BULLSH*T. COMPLETELY.

Dispatcher 2

Can anyone tell me why some of the dispatchers look as if they are walking the green mile when they board the elevator to go upstairs. You say hello to them and the just look at you like they are going to a euthanization appointment. In fairness, this has only been the case with a few I have seen. Most of the others look and act normal.


So sorry you feel like that about us. I feel the same way about the officers sometimes. It's sad that this is my first job I have ever had where I feel that everyone is out to get eachother. Yet this should be the job that everyone should be more of a "family". I've never felt so distant from my co-workers in my life. But my job itself, I like. That's what is keeping me around. And as for so many people on here that remain anon..this is my 1st post on here and I have no problem saying that this is Cat (with kids). So feel free to say hello and I will do the same. Cause if no one starts with anything positive in this place, then everyone is just going to remain being miserable.

[MOD 22]

Hi!!, Cat!!! Thanks for getting something positive started.

Mod 22

[Dirty Harry]

Hi Cat,
I must say I wish I could have heard you on the radio (FM) when you were disc jockeying.... I do like that sultry voice... Hope that new Harley you got is working out!!!

Did you read the part where it said Cat with kids. That means it's not the harley Cat. You must be SF. Making passes at yet another woman. I smell a skunk.

[Dirty Harry]

No Dispatcher-2 I am not SF. And no I am not making a pass. I am happily married. There are some people blessed with a clear strong voice who possess common sense and a level voice when the S*** hits the fan. I don't go in the comm center very often, so sorry I don't know everyones nicknames. Maybe you could try and keep your mind out of the gutter. I am totally out of the loop on who sleeps with who as I don't care.

MOD 22, WHY DON'T YOU ASK CAT THE REAL REASON FOR REQUESTING THAT OFFICERS' GET TO KNOW WHO SHE IS? PERHAPS SHE WANTS TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH PATROL, SO THAT THE NEXT TIME SHE IS INVOLVED IN A DOMESTIC, THEY WILL FEEL SORRY FOR HER. SHE IS STILL A TRAINEE, YET SHE HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN TWO DOMESTICS SO FAR. THE FIRST OCCURED AT HER APT, AND THE SECOND OCCURED AT HER X-BOYFRIEND'S PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT, WHICH BY THE WAY IS AT SOLID WASTE. HER X-BOYFRIEND CALLED THE POLICE, BUT CAT LEFT BEFORE OFFICERS ARRIVED. WE WONDER, DID SHE LEAVE BECAUSE SHE KNOWS HOW CALLS ARE HANDELED? TELL US MOD 22, IF THIS WAS A RECRUIT, HOW WOULD THIS BE HANDELED?
quote="MOD 22"]Hi!!, Cat!!! Thanks for getting something positive started.

Mod 22[/quote]

Dear not SF. Thanks for the voice compliment. The is Kat (with dogs) and as you know now, there are two Cats in the Comm Center. Cat with Kids and Kat with Dogs, also known as Kat with Guns. Nothing like someone yelling out a name and 2 people replying, except 3 people replying. We have had that too.

The new scoot is a hoot and I love it. Much better than the FLHTPI for me. If only US 19 did not exist. Heading to San Antonio when the orange trees are in blossom is the best!

By the way, the calm under pressure comes from being forced to dj smooth jazz. Excitement in the voice is prohibited with another long extended smooth jazz set. It may be cool to jam to, but djing it was el-snooz-o. It would be fun to do dispatch like a rock-jock though, or like Wolf-man Jack...ok, maybe not.

On a side note, hi Kitty Cat. Zup lady?

Dispatcher1...not a single soul in that comm center has the nerve to come to my face and say what they think about me and my ex's situation. NO ONE that doesn't know me, know how he is and what he is trying to do. Nor do I have to justify anything to any low life on here that's only life is the comm center. Do me a favor....if you don't have the balls to say something to ME then don't come on here talking about it. Never did I come on here and talk about someone's personal life or what they are doing or who they are doing. I don't care!!

Garfield,
Your emotions are boiling. They have accomplished their goal. You knew when you started this was a rough crowd, and there would be days you left the center with the knife in the back. Many in the center, (names don't even need to be mentioned**YOU NO WHO YOU ARE) get the most pleasure in life from causing pain to others. Keep you head up. Do your job and forget the place everyday when your shift is over. Things never get better, the course is already charted. Sit back and ride it out.

I'm sure glad I no longer work in the Comm Center...I thought things were bad when I worked there...they've gotten worse from the sounds of it...Hopefully when you all go to the SO, VM won't be going with ya...He was the root to most of the problems in there...

Dear Tuff Life,
YES, move all the dispatchers to Ulmerton Rd. Please clean house while doing so. Tkae the personnel with under 5 years, as they are still trainable and can the rest. Sorry I sound so cruel but make them walk. Well okay, there would be a few senior people i'd keep but no one married to a Sergeant pr anyone married to the PIO. Dispathcer 1 must also go because I want first looks at vacation bid.

Dispatcher2 Ummm hey moron... there is NO ONE Married to the PIO.

Dispatcher2[/quote] Ummm hey moron... there is NO ONE Married to the PIO.

I believe back in APRIL when that post was written, he/she/they WERE still married......They didn't teach you to read in the Academy did they? Attention to detail not important for today's Rookies now is it?

As long as you have: TS, DD, VM, JM, NL & BS there, it will remain a junk yard to work in. Hopefully staff will get rid of the Queen Back Stabber & how she likes to rat everyone out.

Becareful comm center employees of TS, she will take you down in a heart beat, unless you babysit her dogs.

Now wait a darn minute ms. or mr. mouth runeth over. TS will take you down even IF YOU BABYSIT HER DOGS.

Funny. Is BS really that bad?