Systemic Sadomasochism

Management have just tried to bring SSM in here (under the fancy name Dynamic Deployment)… luckily our union is strong and told em to shove it, so with any luck we won't be getting it just yet.
As a dispatcher I hate it – traditionally it's been left to us to work out area coverage, and most people do it well, some struggle, but they're the same retards that should be fired, not have systems like this implemented to make their job easier.
A perfect example is MPDS. Where we had a relatively useful triage system before – it required at least some medical knowledge and more than half a dozen brain cells to get it right. Unfortunately with the scraping of the barrel for employees, MPDS means we're hiring even stupider people that STILL can't get it right.
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Management have just tried to bring SSM in here (under the fancy name Dynamic Deployment)… luckily our union is strong and told em to shove it, so with any luck we won't be getting it just yet.
As a dispatcher I hate it – traditionally it's been left to us to work out area coverage, and most people do it well, some struggle, but they're the same retards that should be fired, not have systems like this implemented to make their job easier.
A perfect example is MPDS. Where we had a relatively useful triage system before – it required at least some medical knowledge and more than half a dozen brain cells to get it right. Unfortunately with the scraping of the barrel for employees, MPDS means we're hiring even stupider people that STILL can't get it right.
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Used to be, dispatch was where we sent medics with career-ending back injuries.

Now, with power stretchers and wellness programs, we have far less of those. So now dispatch is where you go when you have a career-ending brain injury.

Used to be, dispatch was where we sent medics with career-ending back injuries.

Now, with power stretchers and wellness programs, we have far less of those. So now dispatch is where you go when you have a career-ending brain injury.

A police officer once wrote in an article about their dispatch center, “It's where the lame, lazy, and about to be indicted go to finish their careers.” The description of SSM that I ever heard was that it's like cutting three inches off of the bottom of your blanket, sewing it on the top of the blanket, and then telling people you've made the blanket three inches longer.

Just more of that “doing more with less” crap. Which translated accurately, means “beating the shit out of our employees in an effort to save money”.

It took 3 weeks of pure SSM hell for me to take a dollar an hour pay cut just to not have to deal with that. It really is pure mental masturbation by management and administrators who haven't seen a patient in years.

A boss of mine called SSM making a bet with yourself everyday that what happened last will happen this year. Almost as bad: “Computer-Aided” Dispatch. We are using it and give me back the street-wise dispatcher anyday.

A boss of mine called SSM making a bet with yourself everyday that what happened last will happen this year. Almost as bad: “Computer-Aided” Dispatch. We are using it and give me back the street-wise dispatcher anyday.

A boss of mine called SSM making a bet with yourself everyday that what happened last will happen this year. Almost as bad: “Computer-Aided” Dispatch. We are using it and give me back the street-wise dispatcher anyday.