• The Uncanny Observer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I hope he lasts three months, because they always need more dispatchers. So many of them quit because of the horrible things they hear. Like people crying for help while they’re being killed.

    I couldn’t do that shit. I don’t have the fortitude for it.

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      1 year ago

      Imagine the call goes dead and your manager says “what are you waiting for, log the ticket already” and you’re just

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      1 year ago

      My buddy who worked dispatch said the vast majority of the calls were elderly people who are lonely. We’re in Florida though, so maybe that’s why