RE: 911:: Secretaries' Day

[Guest guest]

Our city council did a big thing during one of the meetings for National

Volunteers Week, April 9 - 15th. They made a proclamation, printed out

certificates, and announced it during council session the whole 9 yards.

Now, I am not taking anything away from our volunteers - they give long

hours for no pay and deserve the recognition, but I felt like we

(Dispatchers) were being ignored. The Local Footprint Association put on a

nice dinner for all Dispatchers in our County on April 20th and the city

paid for our ticket (so maybe they feel this is all they needed to do). I

finally made a banner and brought flowers, people walked by looked at the

sign and said " what's that for? " , and when I told them they just said " Oh "

and walked off. *sigh*

But when I came to work Wednesday, I found out that the city manager had

paid for ALL the secretaries in the city to have a 2 hr lunch, then bought

them all gifts! Now I wonder what that cost, because there are probably

almost 20 of them and only 5 Dispatchers!

On a better note, our POA sent a bouquet of flowers to each Dispatcher,

which was placed on our tables at the Dinner - it had a nice note about

thanking us for 'watching over them'. But other than that, nothing else was

done, no cake, no certificates, nothing.

Oh well - that's my 'vent' for the month!

'23 days and counting till vacation " (my mantra for now)

Lori

Paso Robles PD

Paso Robles, CA

" my opinions only, not those of my coworkers or employer "

911:: Secretaries' Day

Well, yesterday was my " Monday " ...and what a way for it to

start!!

Shortly after going on shift, our doorbuzzer rang, and when

I asked " Can

I help you? " A floral delivery man said, " Yes, I have a

bunch of stuff

here. " What it turned out to be were flower arrangements

and balloons

for all the girls in records...... Boy, did that make my

day! See, our

department concentrates on National Crime Victims' Rights

Week, rather

than NTW.....so, for NTW,on that Friday..we " had " to show up

at 2

pm....there, we got to cut a cake, were handed the printed

out

certificates from the Dispatch Monthly site (that I bought

the paper for

and printed out) and bottles of sparkling grape juice given

by county in

memory of their late LT.....then we got to listen while the

new LT told

us of some problems that she has seen and that we need to

work on. From

there, we headed back to shift or home or wherever..and the

officers got

to finish the cake.....

Now....do I feel just marvelously appreciated??

Freida