DispatcherDame's Diatribes
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact

It's your turn - #IAM911

9/19/2016

0 Comments

 
Back in August, Within The Trenches started the #IAM911 movement on social media in hopes to bring awareness and assist NENA and APCO International in the effort to change our classification from clerical work to protected work. Ricardo did this to highlight how very different emergency dispatchers are different from clerical staff and commercial dispatchers. To show that the responsibility that each of us emergency dispatchers carry with every call and radio transmission.
And it took off. Facebook, Twitter... it was widespread and even other countries joined in and shared their stories. Reading through the hashtag on twitter is so moving, even with me being an emergency dispatcher and living the life.

There have been a select few that say that what we are doing is putting down clerical work. We aren't. We're just trying to show how different it is.
Before I was a dispatcher, I was in administrative/clerical work for years - and all kinds of clerical work. Data entry to registrar, administrative assistant to receptionist. It was hard work. Stressful, even, some days. But it has no comparison to what I do now.

Having emergency dispatchers from all around share their stories is fantastic. But there's another thing that we need everyone to do. Wether you are an emergency dispatcher or a not, it's your turn to help us. 

APCO International has made it very easy to send your message and take action. A couple minutes of your time. Today. The #IAM911 movement will still continue, but the OMB is only accepting public comments through tomorrow.

Emergency dispatchers help countless people every shift, without knowing who they are and without prejudice. Now we need your help.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    Author

    A twenty-something dispatcher taking 911 calls, yapping on the radio, and dealing with the general public - with a mad case of headset hair. Not quite so jaded yet, but not naive as I once was. Losing my soul one call at a time.

    This reflects my views and not the view of my employer, etc.  If you have a problem with this, I suggest using the back button.

    Categories

    All
    10/11 Code
    10-20
    911s
    Dead Things
    Dispatch Law
    Family
    Giveaways!
    Intro
    Off Duty Discourse
    Officer Shenanigans
    Phunky Phonetics
    PSA
    Radio Boo Boo
    Radio Boo-boo
    Random
    Struggle Bus
    Trainee Trip Up
    Trainee Trip-up

    Archives

    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    January 2016
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly