The End.
The time has come to move on. This will officially be the last post on this blog.
I didn't create this blog with the intention of ruining careers...I created it as a place to toss issues around, as an outlet for people to vent, commiserate, bitch, moan, etc... Unfortunately, in recent months, it has become much more than that. It's become a mudfest of sorts.
I created the blog on 08 August 2006, and posted exclusively until 29 September 2007. Over the course of that year, there were several time gaps in posts, because organizing this site & keeping abreast of work issues while away from work are very time consuming.
After the 29Sep post, I gave up. After about a month, a friend asked if she could post a couple of things, and I handed day-to-day management over to her. This began at the end of October, with the coming of "Blogmaster."
The next two months progressed without much strife, but the end of December saw a post that I took serious issue with. It attacked an Operations Floor employee (a white shirt) by name - a tactic I never personally used, and was adamantly against from the first post on 08Aug06. We disagreed, but with the assurance that the posts would be "toned down," Blogmaster continued.
Until the end of February.
The most recent posts have broken the camel's back (yes, I intentionally left out "been the straw that's"). Whether the subjects thereof were true or not, I'm not here to debate. Could be, could be not. But I took SERIOUS issue with the way in which they were presented, and with how harshly they attacked. As I said, I didn't start this blog with the intention of messing with careers (although "Our Fearless Leader" really pushed the envelope). And yet that's what's happened. Messing with careers, violating trust/confidentiality...it's all too much. And especially too much to take blame for posts that I didn't write, which were truly not in the vein through which I wanted to course. And also, especially to have people think that I was the one violating their trust for things I didn't write. I have no problem accepting full responsibility for what I wrote, which was everything up to and including 29Sep07. I can't stand behind, or accept responsibility for, what I didn't write - which was everything thereafter excluding this post.
There's been a lot of talk about who I/we may have been. And some of you were right, most of you were wrong. Some of you were right, but didn't realize that there were two different people, two separate "eras," if you will.
But sadly, those eras are both in the past. The comments sections are now closed, except for this one. And this one will be closely monitored/moderated.
Thank you for the support for the last 1.5 years.
CPDDispatch 1
posted by CPDDispatch @ 12:00 AM
14 Comments:
This blog was almost never used to talk about important issues simply because bashing in the comments section was allowed to run rampant. Even if a post started out serious and applicable to our JOB.As anyone knows who reads the SCC blog, those comments can be monitored and removed by the administrator. In fact, the SCC blog now reviews ALL comments before posting them. In the entire time I've been reading this blog, I have seen only a handful of comments that have been removed by the administrator. Perhaps, if you wanted to take on something like this, you should have taken responsibility and made sure it didn't turn into a rumor mongering, hurtful thing. You could have reviewed any post mentioning someone by name prior to the public being able to view it.
i think it takes alot to run a blog and unless you have no life it will take more than "after school time" to run and review daily. i am thankful to you for keeping the blog open for so long and letting alot of us have a place to "vent". and i am sorry that it is leaving, but i also want to say that it takes alot to admit mistakes and to try and correct them. if anyone tries to bash you on how it was run, they are idiots !! it doesn't take much for someone to sit back in their computer chair when they have time and bash someone else on how they would have or could have done things better........Thanks for the outlet and for the posts that made us seem like real people to the outside world and not just someone behind the curtain.
THANK YOU FOR BEING HONEST,I HAD STOPPED READING THE BLOG FOR AWHILE,BECAUSE OF ALL OF THE MEAN THINGS AND NAME DROPPING.I NEVER KNEW THERE WERE 2 DIFFERENT "ERAS" OF "THE BLOG".THE WHOLE THING STARTED TO BE A BIT JUVENILE AND TO THINK THAT WE WORK WITH THESE PEOPLE EVERYDAY IS DISHEARTENING TO SAY THE LEAST.GOOD LUCK TO U "BLOGMASTER(S)".
A good idea gone bad. I wish that this site could keep running, unfortunately, due to human error it can't. I THANK YOU original blogmaster for having the 'nads to create a space were we could vent and get valuable information.
It's really too bad. Thank you for your efforts.
It's difficult to run a post to vent that doesn't involved bosses
or the discussion of them when management is 90 percent the problem at OEMC.
So many with UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR be it the most recent allegation or those from the past. Once again we will be SILENCED for the likes of them.
Over the years there are some shirts who's name or initials never appeared, could be that they're behavior at work never warranted a raised eyebrow.
It's a shame we have to stop communicating to save the reputations of the dishonest when they left so many people in their wakes.
If they do find those shirts guilty of altering records, I sinerely hope they fire them on the spot, and make room for those who respect their work enviorment and those employees in it.
Sorry to say, but I have to agree with you. No one set out to have anyone under investigation or any risk of loosing their job. Sad to say but in having a blog, the negative aspects tends to become an unnecessary evil. It was bound to happen, given the place that we all work in as well as the many different personalities and daily issues.
But you have to look at the flip side of it, some people are their own worst enemy, they do themselves in thinking that they could do whatever they want without any consequences. This isn’t just the suits doing that, but the watch managers, supervisors, dispatchers and calltakers. We are all guilty of an infraction or two, some are guilty of multiple infractions on a daily basis.
Take care
Thanks, blogmaster(s) for your efforts. Too bad the few mud slingers spoiled the forum , just like on the floor, only takes a handful to ruin it for the rest of us.
Something to consider: A weekly posting.........of current/important issuses ....may give you time to omit unwanted replys. Just a thought!
Thanks for 1.5 years. I personally agree that closing this blog down is the right thing to do. The intentions were good, but in my opinion this blog contributed to the shit talking and "hating" among the employees at the OEC. I stopped reading it when my name was mentioned for no apparent reason. The last time I posted anything was when I felt the need to defend myself. It shouldn't have gotten to that point, with anyone.
Carlos Rasilla.
God bless the OEMC and its employees. May we give each other the grace that we need ourselves daily, and work at being the solution and not the cause of our problems.
What a load of sanctimonious crap!
You think you are the wounded party???? What a joke. If there were two eras to this blog...the first was nothing but a forum for peer bashing that had no apparent point, reason or necessity. You didn't stop it and in fact you encouraged it. At least recently the articles were about management and problems with operations.
In a way I am sorry to see this blog close, because it was a means to have some idea of what was really going on around here. The unfortunate part was there were potentially a million or more people on the Internet who could stumble across this blog and learn all kinds of intensely personal information about OEMC and its employees that should remain privvy to us alone.
We desperately need a forum to moan and groan and express our deepest fears, concerns,gripes and real feelings about things.
But it should be in house! Just between us. And no OEMC employee, PCOS or management should be excluded from reading what is being said. No one!
The present OEMC employee newsletter is a good thing,and BK, is very talented and is providing a service of sorts. It is good, well meaning but inadequate, because it is management sponsored and he is on a very short leash.
What we need perhaps is a true employee newsletter! Perhaps the 2 Blogmasters could continue to write this new newsletter.
People could post their responses to a post office box or put them in a container left somewhere in OEMC. We need to have a forum where people can express their honest views and inform us all about things going on in the building that have an impact on all of us.
Gratutitous character assassination is not something that should be condoned. Gossip about people's sex lives should be avoided. And yet people should have the opportunity to express their honest concerns regarding policy matters, working conditions and the on the job performance of management and fellow employees!
People should be free to give their names or write anonymously.
Also does the shutting down of this post mean that "Let's Talk Chi town will also be shut down?
Just trying to provide some food for thought here.
It takes a lot to run a blog and not have any gossip leak into it.As we all know OEMC is a black hole for gossip and truths. Many of us have been subject of both. I for one had an experience with the DepDir and I for one can say from my own truth not gossip is he is a male chauvinist pig!! If you didn't give you were on his list. This man is slippery and you should not feel guilty. At one point the city was given proof of him helping one of his ''girls'' leave without any slips for whole days and 4 hours at a time,with substantial evidence , but he wrote himself out of that little thing. His little thing gets him in trouble and he hasn't learned from it. I for one feel you have to read in gray not black and white.Good Luck
Yea I remember that one too. Come and go as you please while the rest of us were getting the evil eye for being a minute late coming back from lunch.
Readers of a certain age will remember a time when there was no such thing as a blog. Readers of a certain age with some measure of technological experience will further remember that before blogs there were listservs and bulletin boards, either of which require little or no moderation and could serve as an acceptable substitute for those on Chicago Dispatcher Blog rebound. Surely someone will miss it enough to start one and post the address.
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