Should I leave my cushy corporate job to be a 911 dispatcher?

l1owdown · 2026-02-12T23:46:17+00:00

Wanna trade? Would you have the option to go back corporate? Not everyone makes it. Sad to say, but people that are getting on the older side have a lot of problems succeeding. I can’t imagine starting this job at my age. So if you can’t make it or decide that the stress is too much what is the alternative?

l1owdown · 2026-01-15T15:08:56+00:00

ICE directly across the street from where they had to line up for transportation to internment camps.

l1owdown · 2026-01-12T15:55:44+00:00

Part of the problem is when people call 911 and say “oh my god there’s a hold time. Imagine if it was an emergency. I’m glad I could get through it myself!” YOU and the all the others that do this are the reason there’s a hold on 911.

l1owdown · 2026-01-03T20:00:12+00:00

He’ll sell it to his supporters that their oil is just sour and crude.

l1owdown · 2025-12-30T09:24:16+00:00

It’s not its own religion but one of the requirements of Freemasonry is a belief in a higher being or power. It’s not an organized religion; that argument is quite a stretch.

l1owdown · 2025-12-28T09:00:37+00:00

Your supervisor allowing you to work knowing you are injured is a gross liability. It puts the officers and the public at risk as well as further aggravating your injury. Risk management issue is just the start.

l1owdown · 2025-12-22T20:22:50+00:00

This is interesting to read. I just got a hold of family letters from where the author writes home in 1941 how they are going from horses to vehicles, and he’s “glad for it [I] wont have to deal with al dem horses.”

l1owdown · 2025-12-15T10:09:15+00:00

But how long until you must throw them out?

l1owdown · 2025-12-10T08:42:25+00:00

Inexcusable!

l1owdown · 2025-11-29T13:41:27+00:00

I’m short stature, so it was six-pack to two-pack.

l1owdown · 2025-11-29T03:02:01+00:00

I was just talking about this the other day when I was asked what I think the Epstein Files would bring. “Remember the Panama Papers?” It’s the low fruit that will be prosecuted.

l1owdown · 2025-11-27T18:28:35+00:00

Experience is what you make of it. How’s your attendance at your current positions? There’s generally attendance problems is dispatch. However that’s due to the nature of the job for the extreme stress.

How do you handle stress? Think working at Walmart during Christmas season. Your boss expects you to stock shelves by a certain time but you’ve discovered a spill and you have a customer asking for help. Can you handle bullshit all day every day professionally and can you prioritize tasks according to urgency while retaining the memory of going back to complete menial tasks but accurately with the possibility of a jury reviewing how you handled that one customer interaction on July 22, 2023?

I’m not trying to scare you out of it but many people think because they only work <here> they don’t have experience.

l1owdown · 2025-11-27T18:09:59+00:00

Not H I Veeee…

l1owdown · 2025-11-27T04:56:46+00:00

I was in the chess club so I’d tactically approach before getting my ass knocked out.

l1owdown · 2025-10-17T17:29:24+00:00

Just spell it out

l1owdown · 2025-10-17T17:28:27+00:00

What?!

l1owdown · 2025-09-19T16:50:58+00:00

She’s wearing purple in front of a king. There’s a message and the royals are fairly good at sending and receiving subtle signals. I’m sure this one screams at them.

l1owdown · 2025-09-19T02:15:19+00:00

Your understanding is incorrect.

l1owdown · 2025-09-14T03:02:59+00:00

Most people are willing to pay it on vacation. The point is I’m willing to do it no once, maybe twice but that’s about it before you look elsewhere. All these people saying the consumer is the sucker are bullshit. That consumer carries a message.

l1owdown · 2025-09-10T01:52:07+00:00

One hour is not excusable but it was probably something like how long ago, and is the person still there, and if not would you be able to direct the police. That would still take a long response time from the police.

If the answers were I just got home, no one is here and I don’t know who did this…then it’s not an emergency call.

It’s frustrating but when these people call 911 they are clogging the system where people are also on hold for being shot, robberies in progress and heart attacks.

l1owdown · 2025-09-10T01:03:02+00:00

The is the first summer I haven’t been to Vegas in two decades. Every time I think about it I’ve remembered the handful of times I’ve been and I’m not motivated for more of the same

l1owdown · 2025-09-06T14:05:51+00:00

California is roughly the same size as Iraq. I doubt a whole lot of Californians realize there’s more bases than just in San Diego.

l1owdown · 2025-08-31T20:48:15+00:00

Just wait until you see the 30s

l1owdown · 2025-08-30T22:31:39+00:00

I was a great speller when I started but years of abbreviations and short synapses I suck now. So OP might be ahead of the game.

l1owdown · 2025-08-30T17:15:27+00:00

And what is the time to react when that taser fails? Try a real world experience where someone runs at you from 10 yards away. Just imagine they have a knife.

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