Okay, NOW I feel ill-used

[mousme]

There are three people here tonight.

The other two have BOTH been on private calls for the past *checks watch* 45 minutes. One is talking to her daughter in New Zealand. Fine. It's not so busy that we all have to be working our asses off. I'm dealing just fine.

But I ran into a snag with a call, and when I asked for help the woman heaved a sigh of exasperation and ROLLED HER EYES at me.

Come on! We're here to work! Forgive me if I dared to interrupt your personal call with an operational concern.

Christ.

Right now they can both bite me. I'm picking up ALL their slack, and not only am I not getting thanked, I'm getting eyerolls.

Comments

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

Our calls are logged and tracked. If I did that NZ thing, I'd be fired.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Our calls are logged and tracked too. I think that her daughter called here, so it's not being charged to the RCMP, which is the only saving grace.

I'm annoyed. The only personal thing I ever do here is email and LJ (and only posting ever since the 'bots blocked my flist), and I always drop EVERYTHING when the phone rings.

Ergh. This is what I get for having a good work ethic.

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

We're alloted time for personal calls, but even incoming? i mean, they're paying her to be available, right?

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Yup. Hence my annoyance.

[savant-da-rat.livejournal.com]

Erg that annoys me just hearing about it. We have someone in my office who was staying late for (paid) overtime, and was spending the vast majority of that time on personal calls.

He's now the only one on the team who is not authorized for overtime, and everyone knows why. I still wish they would have just fired him. Sigh.

You want some hot and sour sauce to go on those eyerolls?

[montecristo.livejournal.com]

It's close enough for government work... You were expecting something else?

[whiskeygirl8.livejournal.com]

My biggest pet peeve is people who are on personal phone calls for most of the shift. You know what? We are busy enough that it's not a good idea to be working the radio and talking on the phone at the same time. It's like driving and talking on a cell. Your attention is divided and you're going to miss something. And that something could be the location of an officer who just hollered on the radio for assistance and now can't repeat it to you because you didn't hear it because you were talking to your boyfriend.

Sorry. I kinda went off there. It just pisses me right off. Even when Richard was here, I hardly ever talked to him while I was at work and when I did, it was either when I was on break or it was a quick call from my console to tell him something important. I see no reason why these people need to be constantly connected to their SOs most of the shift and almost every day.