Last week I booked out of my 1600 hr shift, FT job, (Dispatch) around 1400 with absolutely SEARING pleurisy. I could barely drive, was crying, and praying for death. Went home spent quality time in a steamy shower, took some Rx, laid down... and 2 hours later was FINE.
That's the way pleurisy works. It's either deadly or your fine... no 'lasting effects.' So, I call work, try to "unbook." Say, "I feel MUCH better now, can be in by 1800, yadda yadda. They say shift is filled, but will pass it on. Supervisor calls me back. I say how bad I feel for booking, but you have to decide at least 1.5 hours before your shift... I say about FIVE TIMES I can come in... she says nothing. I say, "hokay, anyone else books, whatever, PLEASE lemme know."
Mind you, at this point my 6.5 hours of OT from the week have goon *poof* into straight time. I'm using VACA since I've only got 2 hrs or so of sick time... so I am MOTIVATED to go fill the shift. Waffly supervisor does NOT say to come on in.
So, I crash another 2 hours or so, and then get up, get dressed and run into town for errands. Grocery shop, stop at the Muni PD I work PT for for my paycheck. They say "hay, we're executing that warrant tonight... wanna go?" I say "SURE-- but you're going to have to vouch for me that I knew NOTHING about this when I booked out..." they agree. I am VERY up front. EVERYONE knows I booked out of job #1. I am not getting paid, it's ride-along.
While at the warrant I did very little except search 2 females, and make a call to poison control to id pills. Through Dispatch of course.
Well, now everyone is ****ed. Mostly jealous (several other dispatchers are PT patrol and one tried to leave a shift he was THERE for at the last warrant... sux to be him)
There is genuine consensus on everybody's part except the supervisor's that I tried to UNBOOK. Supervisor said "it's open to interpretation." Well, thank god the phones are taped, coz I know what I said, the people I talked to know what I said, the supervisor just has no spine, wouldn't make a decision, and was faces with ****y people in the a.m.
She calls me into her office next day, asks about it. I was honest, and said I was honest the night before... hell, I could've told Muni that I'd go but only if I wasn't on the air and nobody knew I went... they would've complied... and THAT is what I think would have made it wrong... It went to the boss. So far, no action on his part, except to call my Chief at Muni PD... where my boss even admitted I tried to UNBOOK but still went out to play... Chief said, "then why are you calling me?" He's fine with it, just talked to him today. I said it wasn't the most politic choice I've made...
so.
How wrong was I? Fire away...
That's the way pleurisy works. It's either deadly or your fine... no 'lasting effects.' So, I call work, try to "unbook." Say, "I feel MUCH better now, can be in by 1800, yadda yadda. They say shift is filled, but will pass it on. Supervisor calls me back. I say how bad I feel for booking, but you have to decide at least 1.5 hours before your shift... I say about FIVE TIMES I can come in... she says nothing. I say, "hokay, anyone else books, whatever, PLEASE lemme know."
Mind you, at this point my 6.5 hours of OT from the week have goon *poof* into straight time. I'm using VACA since I've only got 2 hrs or so of sick time... so I am MOTIVATED to go fill the shift. Waffly supervisor does NOT say to come on in.
So, I crash another 2 hours or so, and then get up, get dressed and run into town for errands. Grocery shop, stop at the Muni PD I work PT for for my paycheck. They say "hay, we're executing that warrant tonight... wanna go?" I say "SURE-- but you're going to have to vouch for me that I knew NOTHING about this when I booked out..." they agree. I am VERY up front. EVERYONE knows I booked out of job #1. I am not getting paid, it's ride-along.
While at the warrant I did very little except search 2 females, and make a call to poison control to id pills. Through Dispatch of course.

Well, now everyone is ****ed. Mostly jealous (several other dispatchers are PT patrol and one tried to leave a shift he was THERE for at the last warrant... sux to be him)
There is genuine consensus on everybody's part except the supervisor's that I tried to UNBOOK. Supervisor said "it's open to interpretation." Well, thank god the phones are taped, coz I know what I said, the people I talked to know what I said, the supervisor just has no spine, wouldn't make a decision, and was faces with ****y people in the a.m.
She calls me into her office next day, asks about it. I was honest, and said I was honest the night before... hell, I could've told Muni that I'd go but only if I wasn't on the air and nobody knew I went... they would've complied... and THAT is what I think would have made it wrong... It went to the boss. So far, no action on his part, except to call my Chief at Muni PD... where my boss even admitted I tried to UNBOOK but still went out to play... Chief said, "then why are you calling me?" He's fine with it, just talked to him today. I said it wasn't the most politic choice I've made...
so.
How wrong was I? Fire away...
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