Another year and yet we are back to the same habits we have followed in the past.
This year I am already burned, and I only know the situation happened because the coworker told me about it. I came to work feeling better than the prior few days. I have had a session of down in the dumps days. I really couldn't pinpoint what one thing caused it. Then I get to work and the new guy who has been here less than a year, says he oddly had been approached by the chief about putting in his application for officer quickly and was handed an application. I kind of played it off like it doesn't bother me. But it does. The prior chief told me I couldn't use dispatch as a stepping stone so I never tried and it's a sore topic for me. We just got the trainee we are training ready to be on their own and now we look to cause more overtime taking a trained dispatcher out of the seat to fill an officer slot? The applicant pool for officers always runs deep. The dispatch applicant pool is slim, and often many are excluded during interviews or background checks. I cannot with a clear mind wrap my head around the disconnect. It eats at me until I do irrational things, such as threatening to apply elsewhere and Run through my head how I should make it known my anger. I have passed the age to be a viable officer candidate here, and I reay don't want the job now, but it's the audacity of the entire situation.