Has anyone successfully eliminated or mostly eliminated the chronic toxic environment that plague most dispatch centers? Mine has been working pretty hard to do it but there are still some people who just refuse to change.
Is there another term other than "highly sensitive person" or HSP to describe us? I dont know how to phrase it properly but when I say that I am that term it feels, Generic maybe? Like it doesnt actually convey how deep it is for most of us.
I just recently found out what a HSP is and thats me. it has truly made me feel so much less alone. I wish I could sent up hang outs with you guys because of how much i relate to everyone. I also have ADHD and work in a high stress emergency environment. Ive been struggling a lot feeling alone because I dont know anyone else around thats a HSP. So i just wanted to say thank you to you all. And if anyone ever decided to plan a trip for us HSP to get together i would travel for it. Thank you all for sharing your stories. Your feelings.
I just want to rant and get it out of my system. I am so tired of the constant equipment or connection issues at this fast paced highly demanding job. I dispatch in Kansas and our statewide system that we use to get returns on tags and drivers licenses is so old and outdated. For the last 7 hours I will run one thing and get a return quickly, 45 seconds later I run something else and wait 5 minutes just to get a "response currently unavailable". Then sometimes it will only be another minute or two and they finally send the return. Sometimes it shows up 20 minutes later. Then I go to run something again and it returns right away...over and over and over. This happens multiple times every month. Or its the brand new work console thats supposed to be top of line the line and everything runs from an app on the computer but the app crashes on different consoles at different times making it unusable until IT can come fix it. Or our IT takes our CAD system down for a "short period" and it turns into 8 hours later. Then when it comes back on it runs worse than before so they have to take it down again. I could go on and on and on. Sometimes it feels like everyday there is some major malfunction that makes our jobs harder than they already are.
thank you for reading my rant.
Just curious if your center or agencies you dispatch for is doing anything differently during that period?? I work for a city hosting a team and there has been so much planning across all agencies.
So ive had multiple therapists throughout my life and ive had almost all positive experiences. Some of them I even really liked. This hear I started equine therapy and ive made more progress with it than anything else in the past. I find that I feel really connected to this therapist. Like I want to be her friend. I know that this is not on the table and thats not my question. My question is what is it about this therapist that makes me want to be friends when ive never had that desire with past ones?