911 call ignored

[vagt6]

I don't disagree at all about crappy service, but to me, it's not the employees' fault: it's poor management and probably poor leadership (or lack thereof).

Without good management, employees are bound to perform badly.

Our tax dollars at work . . . /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/troll.gif

Good point, but in my experience, good employees (emphasis on the word "good") do not need close supervision. I sure as heck don't, never did....

Yes, but try FINDING and hiring "good" low-wage employees for service-sector jobs in today's marketplace (they're non-existent, for most practical purposes): you can only hire the folks who show up for interviews.

Which takes us back to the top of this tread . . .

 

[aerog]

911 for fire emergencies or life-threat circumstances only.

...and in similar news, I have a neighbor (in her mid 50s I'd guess) that calls 911 and ties up a crew several times a year for the last few years. She gets what she calls an "anxiety" attack brought on by things like the (no joke) "ghost of her dead mother flushing her toilet".

Here's the problem: we live all of five minutes from an excellent hospital. They have a yard full of cars, a daughter with a big family that lives a few houses away, and another that lives one street over. They call 911 and usually an ambulance and firetruck get dispatched to the house (which takes about the same amount of time it would take if they drove her to the ER). The ambulance and firetruck sit here for 30-60 minutes dealing with her, then she's out in her yard like nothing ever happened.

Whether she actually ever pays for this service is anybody's guess... but it galls me that all these emergency responders are tied up because a nutty woman is upset because a ghost is flushing her toilet - and her family refuses to take any more responsibility than dial 911 when the "ghost" appears.

 

[NutmegCT]

boy oh boy oh boy ... do I ever wish I had a nickel for every time I've seen people doing selfish, thoughtless, and/or irresponsible things.

- extreme sports where people get into trouble and the county spends gazillions to rescue them.

- a healthcare system where people go to ERs for basic care.

- neighbors who think it's funny to let their garbage pile up and the wind blow it around the neighborhood.

note to self: don't even get started on that ....

Sensible people design sensible systems. But those systems aren't always used by sensible people.

T.

 

[DrEntropy]

Yeah, Scott, we have one'a them here, too. My neighborhood is "diverse" like that. Good 'n bad. Wouldn't trade it tho. No deed restricted "house farm" for me. If I wanna start a fire inna back yard, I do. One next-door neighbor has one goin' right now, slowly burning off the fallen leaves. She's got her hose to the ready, always responsible. It's 'home.'

 

[GregW]

I’m not condoning what happened. On the flipside are the stupid people that use 911 for selfish reasons. Here’s a 911 tape that is a good example. I think the 911 operator spend too much time with this wack job though. I would have hung up much sooner. Burger King 911

 

[aerog]

That has GOT TO BE A JOKE! I know it's a real call, but someone had to have been doing it as a prank. Right? Please tell me I'm right... please! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

PS: Oh wait, it's probably Britney Spears anyway - right? RIGHT!?

 

[GregW]

Believe me, I’d love to have someone give me the Snopes URL that says it ain’t so. The woman had no clue her actions weren’t justified and she could be endangering someone in a real emergency be wasting 911’s time. Ugh!

 

[2wrench]

I dialed 911.

Operator could not dispatch help without knowing what
city I was in.

Problem was, I was not in city limits; I was on a
county road between two cities. I explained this
describing my direction of travel and approximate
distance from the city in front of me and the one
behind me.

She said if I could not tell her what city I was in,
she couldn't help me and hung up.

I called back and explained the situation once again.
She reiterated if I couldn't tell her what city I was
in, she couldn't help me and hung up.

Minimum wage intelligence? Don't know, but I can
certainly believe it could factor in, here.

 

[aerog]

Believe me, I’d love to have someone give me the Snopes URL that says it ain’t so. The woman had no clue her actions weren’t justified and she could be endangering someone in a real emergency be wasting 911’s time. Ugh!

Yeah but... heck, it goes way beyond wasting the 911 operator's time. She actually wanted the police to go in and force the place to make her a burger?

Argh. Just... Argh.