Im Still Here

I'm dropping in to let everyone know I'm still here. Our IT department has cracked the whip on internet usage while at work and out of fear of my blog being discovered or questions brought up I have avoided the internet unless necessary. I now have to post from home which gets difficult.

I am going to break one of my rules of my blog today because it has been keeping in the back of my head and pestering me.

About 3 weeks ago I was written up for 3 things that are not policies in our dispatch center. Our radio screen is a touch screen with our police, fire/ems channels and channels for surrounding agencies in case fecal matter strikes the BIG fan. We had a call that came into us that was for a neighboring agency and we took information and transferred the caller to them. Knowing personally that "Desert Agency" didn't have anyone on shift at that time and someone would be getting called out I unmuted the channel for Desert Agency. I heard my father check on en route to the call. The call was a hysterical female screaming there was a male in front of her house with a gun. I heard Desert Agency dispatch the call and they did not include the information about the gun, the caller may have failed to mention this information. I then called Pops on his cell and gave him the extra info we had about the gun. I then went back to work with their channel unmuted. I was written up because I had that channel unmuted. I was told durning my training to listen to the other agencies that way to hear how they handle things and I am getting written up when my trainer still does that.

I was also written up because I argue with officers and don't get enough info prior to dispatching the call. The call in question that I didn't get enough info on was a call I never took just dispatched out. The call taker took the information and I'm getting disiplined for it. As far as arguing, I do not argue with them. I ask them questions to clarify what is going on since they are my eyes in the field.

Lets please note that when I was written up none of the calls or radio logs were listened to for verification that I did these things. Infact the complaint that I don't get enough info was one officer's word against mine. None of these issues had been mentioned to me prior to the write-up and I went through every policy we have and could not find any that would make these hold water. I have been in contact with my union about these and a meeting with my boss keeps getting bumped to different days due to "meetings".

I know what you've been going through Angie with the sleep issue of recent. I too have had this write up hanging over my head keeping me stressed, frustrated, pissed, angry and tired for the last 3 weeks. My only problem is that I've kicked myself off the caffiene and have been without for 2 months now.

Will-Tone 10-7

P.S.
If Kvegas is still out there please send me an invite to your new blog.

Curious

Just a quick question to those of you who read my blog.

Does anyone know what happened to kvegas?

This has been a question that I've ask myself while trolling everyone else's blogs for pieces of sanity. Was she discovered and forced to close down shop?

So here I am enjoying another night of boredom (wow the phone rang just as I typed that...creepy). So here I am enjoying a night of semi-boredom because officers are making more T-stops than I think they should and crap calls float in from the porcelain telephone. I've spent a lot of time thinking as I've been going through a tough time being in a small town with no friends left living here to visit with. (Side note: I love my co-workers tonight. Nothing can make you smile like hearing them say "I'm a peanut" very loudly.)

I have returned from competition and have to say we didn't do bad. I am very proud of our team. We were the smallest post there and while we didn't win any trophies I think we gave the others a good run for their money. We ate at Famous Dave's and one of our explorer's earned a new nickname because of what he ordered, The Texas Man Handler.

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So it's been a little while since I last posted and I am sorry for that. Once again it has been in part due to the bureaucracy around here and in honesty it's really starting to wear me thin (unfortunately not physically). I have added a couple blogs to my list of favorites, if anyone is interested in joining that growing list leave me a comment (I like them) and I'll check out your blog for adding to the list.


To touch a little into my personal life I am again single and have a new female friend who I am very close to. I wont go into much detail but she is adventurous and is not ready to get involved where she is tied down to one person and place. To quote a movie my friends and I could quote most of "Funny how they always want to be friends after they rip your heart out." (brownie points if you can name the movie).


In other stuff my explorers and I have been gearing up to go to a competition this weekend in Sin City. We trained for our "Active Shooter" scenario which made me think of the nightmare dispatch would be should that happen here. It's not everyday that you show up for training and the officer teaching the class says "Ok I want you all to shoot me in the head and put my lights out." The officer brought the simunitions guns and masks for us to work on shooting a hostage taker playing coward behind the hostage. After about 8 times doing that we moved into the school where we began the tactical movements (this is the stuff I live for). Hope we do really well as this is my last competition as an explorer I can attend. I will miss that I have to hand over my chevrons in October because I will be too old for the program.

It has been suggested to me that I should find myself a good hobby. I am currently thinking of a few to start but am limited in due to the number of days off per week I have but I guess it wouldn't be a hobby if it took more days than my work did. I'd like to pick up my guitar lessons again and get my motorcycle licence.
I currently have been playing a lot more online games with my friends. I have always been a big time video game player for as long as I can remember so if anyone has any hobbies for a 20 year old male feel free to shoot ideas at me. For now I'll be done.

Will Tone 10-7

I'm Back

So it's been a while since I last posted and I should probably post an update as to what has been going on.

Things have been going well for me on the social front, I have taken "Boo" out quite a bit and we have had a lot of fun. Her mom likes me and as she puts it "Atleast he has a job and besides, it could be worse." her family is awesome.

I have shyed away from posting the last while because of changes going on in our comms center. Our internet privilages are restricted and being monitored so we are to confine our internet use to our break and lunch periods only. Even now i'm hurrying to spit this out to get everything in that I want to cover.

I am on my second day back to graveyards and my body is hating me due to the lack of sleep. Last night I discovered cappachino and the great awakeness elixer that it is. I ended my shift and was physically pushed out of the comms room because I didn't want to go home and would not be able to sleep. I have not had one yet but I think an officer needs to get me one to stay in my good graces.

Will Tone 10-7

Great Weekend

Back to the grindstone after a great set of days off. Last Wednesday I worked up the courage to ask one of the corrections officers if it would be ok for me to take his oldest daugher out (I made sure his weapons were secured before hand.) and he said it would be fine. So the last two nights i've taken her out and we've had a blast. I regret that I am going back to weekend graveyards because we wont get to hang out as much due to her schedule.

As I just mentioned I will be going back to graveyards. I hate the sound of it right now because my body has just gotten used to waking up for days and i'm going to have to re-adjust to nights again. I may talk to my boss about seeing if I can stay. I am supposed to go back and another person from my night shift will be replacing me on days while the scheduled person is out on maturnity leave for his wife. My replacement doesn't want to change shifts due to having problems with the other person on the shift so maybe I can swing it for another while.

We have shift bids coming this Wednesday and I have one question to some of the other dispatchers. How long before your shift bids is the schedule posted for you to look at and decide? We have 4 days till we decide and the last we heard the schedule for bidding wasn't even created yet. A few of us have decided to pull together and refuse to bid until we've had atleast a week to decide. I hope we don't just get assigned shifts for not bidding.

Will Tone 10-7

So after a long nights rest I feel I am getting my mojo back. Maybe i'm getting over the problems from my relationship and moving on.

Another co-worker and I began talking about making our "Trunk-or-Treat" for halloween a themed event. After finding photos of the officers from Reno 911 and troopers from Super Troopers we began adding names of current officers to the photos for them to dress as. I got trooper Foster as a character
(far left). I hope the officers will play along with everything.

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I am now burning my mouth with a buffalo snacker from KFC. I may need to tone the engine to come spray my mouth. My shift bid is coming up on the 15th so hopefully I can score a day shift so my body wont have to change it's sleep cycle too much.

Will Tone 10-7

Blah

So I seem to have lost my motivation to do just about anything. My trip went well but with a few unexpected events. Spaz and I have been together for about two and a half years and have agreed to go our separate ways. We've both tried our best to make the long-distance relationship work and have done a good job to say the least with very few snags. We did break-up for about 6 months and worked things out between us. During my trip we had some very deep talks bringing all the skeletons out of the closet and we realized that things weren't working. We are however staying friends and going to keep in touch.

I have began my week long transition to dayshift and it has not been kind to me or my mind. Each day has been a test and yesterday I found myself dozing off in front of my console because it has been so dead. Today will test me again because Sundays are always dead with the exeption of jail visitation that we handle the warrant checks during.

Will Tone 10-7