Another year approaching the threshold entering new explorations, new challenges, the same game. Coworkers have came and went a few more than normal this past year and likely more any day now. I am starting to think more like a go with the flow person and less with a complainer attitude. I won't say this year was easy, there were many 12 hour shifts and shift coverages due to long term illness and resignations. Nearing 10 years in the seat behind the headset and at times I feel unwanted, unrespected. Then a day comes up where my officers thank me or have a discussion with me about nothing. But it shows they are people to who maybe forget dispatchers need asked if they are ok too.
It seems as the temperatures start to change, so do attitudes among co-workers. Its almost like the cooler weather triggers animosity. The simplest of things can trigger someone. Lately things have been kind of that way anyways. We were in the process of training one new dispatcher, and he was not quite up to par, and it seemed like everything resulted in a review of how he was handling things, from trying to field calls himself, to just down right ignoring important details from callers. Then at at some point he decided to quit, as we were just barely ready to release the trainee who was hired before him. So now we are short staffed again, as such as been the norm for about the last 2 years off and on. I don't think administration has anything to do with it. Eh, well I actually do. The past year we have seen a major shakeup. We saw not only a change of leadership in the agency, we also experienced changes of leadership o...