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College switchboard/police dispatcher!!
Last night one of my co-workers called off for the night, and it was a really bad night to call off. We were under a dense fog advisory, and it was really hard to see and it was pretty damn dangerous to drive. I understand that. We didn't call off classes though.
Naturally I had about a billion calls asking if we had class or not, just like I have had for the last week now. If it wasn't because of the rain, it was because of snow or now this damn fog. (The weather is effing crazy. Thundersnow, and today in the forecast? TORNADOES!)
I was getting pissed because my switchboard is ringing off the hook, and I have the police line going off AND my officers are out doing traffic stops and vehicle assists...many of them were jump starts because of headlights left on. I have NEVER had THAT many calls for that kind of thing in one day. (Which, I need to be paying MORE attention to the police/radio than the switchboard.)
Anyways, about an hour into all of this, and all of the "But it's so damn foggy out, I don't want to drive, what do I do????" 's, this one guy calls me.
"I was just wondering if there were night classes tonight?"
"We are still open for night classes." Me
*snaps* "Do you *realize* that you can't see more than 5 feet in front of your car out there?"
(I'm thinking, "Well yeah, how in the hell do you think I got here??"
"Well sir, I don't have any control over us closing, you can talk to the pres..."
*yells/cuts me off* "WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR NAME?!?!"
(I hang up, because I don't need to talk to him at that point. I've told him classes were canceled.)
Then he calls back.
*yelling* "DON'T YOU FUCKING HANG UP ON ME!"
At this point, I look over to my sgt. who is pretty cool and was sitting at my usual desk keeping me company, I was like "Can I transfer this guy to you?"
Of course once he was like "This is Sgt. ******" the asshole was nice as shit to him!!
My sgt was laughing about it though, and I didn't think it was that funny honestly.
Then again my sgt is the same man who refers to peanut M&M's as "male" because they have nuts.
My sgt just said that he was an idiot. Mostly because these people need to have common sense with making these judgement calls. We decided that the ones who DIDN'T call, were smart enough not to endanger their lives.
Last night one of my co-workers called off for the night, and it was a really bad night to call off. We were under a dense fog advisory, and it was really hard to see and it was pretty damn dangerous to drive. I understand that. We didn't call off classes though.
Naturally I had about a billion calls asking if we had class or not, just like I have had for the last week now. If it wasn't because of the rain, it was because of snow or now this damn fog. (The weather is effing crazy. Thundersnow, and today in the forecast? TORNADOES!)
I was getting pissed because my switchboard is ringing off the hook, and I have the police line going off AND my officers are out doing traffic stops and vehicle assists...many of them were jump starts because of headlights left on. I have NEVER had THAT many calls for that kind of thing in one day. (Which, I need to be paying MORE attention to the police/radio than the switchboard.)
Anyways, about an hour into all of this, and all of the "But it's so damn foggy out, I don't want to drive, what do I do????" 's, this one guy calls me.
"I was just wondering if there were night classes tonight?"
"We are still open for night classes." Me
*snaps* "Do you *realize* that you can't see more than 5 feet in front of your car out there?"
(I'm thinking, "Well yeah, how in the hell do you think I got here??"
"Well sir, I don't have any control over us closing, you can talk to the pres..."
*yells/cuts me off* "WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR NAME?!?!"
(I hang up, because I don't need to talk to him at that point. I've told him classes were canceled.)
Then he calls back.
*yelling* "DON'T YOU FUCKING HANG UP ON ME!"
At this point, I look over to my sgt. who is pretty cool and was sitting at my usual desk keeping me company, I was like "Can I transfer this guy to you?"
Of course once he was like "This is Sgt. ******" the asshole was nice as shit to him!!
My sgt was laughing about it though, and I didn't think it was that funny honestly.
Then again my sgt is the same man who refers to peanut M&M's as "male" because they have nuts.
My sgt just said that he was an idiot. Mostly because these people need to have common sense with making these judgement calls. We decided that the ones who DIDN'T call, were smart enough not to endanger their lives.
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