A Dispatchers Life Is The Life For Me!!!

I need a break!!!! I love my job, don't misinterpret anything I'm going to say, I really do love my job. However... If I just had to deal with my coworkers, my job would be swell (with just occassional dealings of lunacy). Unfortunately I have to deal with the public and a fairly good amount of the public I deal with are I-G-N-O-R-A-N-T!!!! You may say, "Winter that's not nice" or "Winter you shouldn't be so judgemental" to which I would have to respond "Get over it!" If you did not agree with me on some scale, then one of two things is apparent 1) You do not deal with the general public and therefore cannot possibly begin to comprehend how aggravating and discouraging STUPID people can be or 2) You have a drug or alcohol problem (wether prescription or not) that keeps you super mellow or oblivious one. OUCH! Yes... shame, shame you know my name. Now before you get all super spiritual on me, let me give you an example of a call that I could get on any given day, this one just happens to be an acutual call I took yesterday. (Everything in red will be me and ( ) represents what I'm thinking.) Lincoln Parish Sheriff's office... Yeah I'm here at Lincoln Hospital and they called me and said my brother has been shot 3 times and they said he ain't here and the call came in on the i.d. lincoln hospital and I drove from monroe and now they're saying he ain't here. Sir, sir, who is they? Someone called from that lincoln hospital number and gave my brother's name, date of birth, and social security number and said he's been shot so I drove up here and now they're saying they haven't seen him. Who did you speak with on the phone from the hospital? I don't know they just called and said my little brothers been shot and I drove all the way over here and noone has seen him and I want him found. Well sir, the sheriff's department has not received any calls about anyone being shot tonight, have you tried calling the Ruston Police dept.? Why? I would think that the sheriff's dept is better. (keep in mind at this point he is extremely agitated) Sir, it has nothing to do with being better. The police dept covers everything in Ruston, they handle thier own calls. The could have had a call concerning someone being shot, you would have to speak with them about it. You mean ya'll don't know a damn thing that's going on in the city! Sir, they would only notify us if they needed assistance or they had a chase that took them out of the city into the parish. Well, I'm from monroe and Ouachita parish Sheriff's is over the police dept!! (no they're not, moron) Sir, I'm well aware of who has jurisdiction where and no that is not how it is run. All I'm trying to tell you is that the call may have gone through Ruston and they may have information I don't have. This is bulls*** I want you to find my damn brother. Sir you're going to have to talk to us and give us a description of your brother, where he was last seen...Fine I'll f******* walk down there and give you something, where the hell are you? We're on 167 across from the First Baptist Church. (silence) Hello? Hello (new guy) Who am I speaking with? (names will not be mentioned to protect the ignant) As I was trying to tell your friend, we're going to have to have a desription of his brother, where he was last seen, and other information before we can go find his brother. That was my brother you were talking to and ma'am we're just trying to find my little brother. Someone called us from this number that came up lincoln hospital on the ID (you say it because maybe I'll have some sort of revelation from your tone when you say the same thing your brother has said ten times now!!) and we drove all the way from monroe to check on him and they're telling us he's not here and now someone just told us the fire dept hasn't made anykind of calls with a gunshot victim. Sir, have ya'll tried calling hospitals in monroe? No we got the call and rushed over here. We just need you to find our brother. Sir, is it possible this was a friend of your brothers making a prank call. This isn't funny!!! (no s*** sherlock) I'm not saying it is, it is definetly not funny. I'm just saying that if the call came from Lincoln Hospital, it could have been from the payphone because I know if your brother was there at the hospital, the staff wouldn't lie to you about him being there. Where was your brother last at? I don't know. Where does he live? I don't know. He lives from place to place, I think he might have been staying with his mom's ex-husband in calhoun. Oh, is that his dad? No! That's his mom's ex-husband. Now, while I'm having this mind numbing conversation one of the deputy's that was in the radio room visiting with me (I don't always have this luxury) called Ruston PD, Quachita S.O., Jackson Parish SO, and Union Parish SO none of which has worked anything along the lines of someone getting shot. So I relayed this information to my caller and tried to reinterate that unfortunately this was probably some horrible prank call, which I could understand getting angry about but not taking it out on the dispatcher who had nothing to do with the call in the first place!!! So we pick up after I've reiterated it was probably a prank call. Well, I guess my brother and I will just have to go kicking ass until we find out who called us and did this!! Sir, I wouldn't recommend that because for one thing you don't know who did this and two that will get you and your brother arrested. Yeah well this is bulls*** and someone is going to have to explain. Sir I understand your angry and you want to kick someone's ass, but you need to calm down and start calling people who might know where your brother is and see if anyone has seen him. Yeah, well thank you and I hope I never have to talk to you again! Ok, goodbye. Bye! CALGON TAKE ME AWAY!!!!!