Oops

According to News of the Weird, a British man is considering filing suit against a hospital where he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer two years ago. He was told that he'd die within a year, so he quit his job, gave away possesions, and exhausted his savings "living it up." Turns out all he had was pancreatitis. So now he's still alive and broke.

We were prepared before?

Okay, so we're a couple of days late. We have lives, you know.

The Sun-Times reports that Cortez Trotter has resigned his position as "Chief Emergency Officer."

Ability to handle a disaster is in question with three top spots vacant

We must have missed something, then, because most of the people in Operations questioned the city's ability to "handle a disaster." One should have heard all the buzz around the floor about the Olympics bid, and how ill-prepared we'd be for organized chaos. The city has a few football fields to cover before it's close to being prepared for any disaster of sorts.

Remember Loopalooza? Or Loopzilla, or whatever it was called? Yeah, we barely remember it too, because not much mention of it was made at the job beforehand. And a walk through downtown during the night showed a lack of police coverage, which in turn means of a lack of communications coverage, failure on the part of the city [again] to prepare for a non-disaster.

Trotter's departure isn't going to change anything in terms of how prepared we are or aren't.

It's always been the latter.

Pretty much.

LEOMemorial writes:

when you're taking calls, is it so busy (and shorthanded) that you have calls waiting for you?

Not 100% of the time. But there are plenty of times in any shift when there are more than five 911 calls are waiting for service, sitting unanswered. The fortunate thing is that most of them are from those damned cell phones that were misdialed. In fact, we don't have hard numbers, but we'd bet that well over 50% of 911 calls don't get sent to zones to be dispatched. That would be mainly due to the high number of idiots who accidentally (or idiot children who purposely) dial 911 with no desire or need for service.

Here's a good laugh, though. The most calls we've seen waiting unanswered totalled 90-plus. We have a picture of the banner board from that time, if anyone can guess when it's from. We won't post it and get caught up on "unauthorized dissemination," but surely all any PCO has to do is wait until this summer to see it for him/herself. There are 4 unanswered calls as of this writing.

Any takers?

It seems that there's a problem finding a dispatcher to work in the OC on 2nd Watch. The Deputy Director sent out a memo, now in the C.O. book, seeking volunteers to work across the hall on Days.

They're even trying to sweeten the deal by offering a Saturday/Sunday day-off group to any volunteers. But they're in such dire need that they had to throw in the old "reverse seniority will be used" clause in case there are no volunteers.

Guess the old demoted Acting Deputy Director is still like a cancer on the growth and forward movement of OEC. There can't possibly be any other reason why people would avoid the OC like the plague, especially given that there weren't people clamoring to avoid it before she got reassigned over there. She's not allowed near us on the Operations floor anymore, and noone wants to be remotely close to where she has to be, either.