r/interesting • u/[deleted] • 7h ago

SOCIETY 911 dispatcher ignores multiple emergency calls bc she doesn't feel like working.

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u/VladlenaM2025 7h ago

What ever happened to her afterwards? Genuinely curious 🧐

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u/[deleted] 7h ago edited 1h ago

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u/TankApprehensive3053 7h ago

She should have been terminated after the jail time.

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u/Zhjacko 7h ago

Right, what the fuck

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u/Sad-Ad-6516 7h ago

Just curious cuz I dint know but did they say they never fired her?

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u/FirmlyClaspIt 7h ago

1 year in jail & 18 months probation sounds like firing to me

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u/Excellent_Garlic2549 7h ago

I'd be impressed if I walked back into my government job after that. I'm sure there are ways.

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u/sarahfrancesca 6h ago

I think the commenter I responded to may have thought that 18 months probation had to do with a probationary period at work, and I assumed that they just had more information than me. But now after reading the court document linked above, I highly highly doubt that she returned to that job.

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u/TankApprehensive3053 6h ago

I agree. I initially went of that commenter's reply saying 10 days jail and probation to mean her work probation. The court document is much more detailed.

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u/sarahfrancesca 7h ago

Speaking as someone who lives in a city that has had a significant dispatcher shortage the entire decade I've lived here, I can see why they kept her. Literally we just need bodies answering the phone. One time when I was being followed in my car, my 911 call was redirected to a neighboring city, and the operator couldn't tell me the address of the police station as I was trying to drive to it.

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u/Ok_Loss13 6h ago

But she wasn't answering the phone (well, not long enough to actually help anyone before hanging up)

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u/gr4vyrobb3r 3h ago

I was gonna say, it's probably really hard to keep people in that job. Probably a lottt of turnover since it can be emotionally draining and traumatic. But.... the easy fix would be a higher pay rate. So even with a high turnover, you'll always have decent candidates that DO care, at least until they emotionally can't anymore. Rinse and repeat. 911 dispatchers have such a hard job, I couldn't even imagine doing it myself.

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u/SecureUse5513 7h ago edited 6h ago

Depends on the state really.

Obviously not the same as what's going on here, but here in SoCal, you commit a dui, you get a point on your license and i think if you get 3 points they take away your drivers license for a year. In new Orleans, you get your 25th dui, and you just pay the ticket*.

*-I know there are new laws by now and I would like to hope it's changed by now. We have daiquiri shops that are drive-thru. And it may have changed but it used to be that as long as you left the straw in the wrapper, technically you weren't open carrying alcohol in public.

Edit again: whoah new Orleans has gone to defcon 1....it's way more reasonable. I'm like way off base now.

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u/NoDoOversInLife 4h ago

She was terminated before she was charged with her crimes.

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u/that_dutch_dude 3h ago

she got convicted and had actual jail time. you aint working for goverment at all after that,

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u/Accurate_Respect_215 7h ago

Yes but not from the job 😉

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u/FirmlyClaspIt 7h ago

It says 1 year in jail

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u/Hot-Range-7498 6h ago

Ooooh. That explains why this is on the internet. I was curious how an internal work situation got here.

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u/mile911m 4h ago

Someone said it’s a skit and fake so what’s real now lol

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u/Super_Deeg 3h ago

The video is not real, and after reading the testimony is not accurate either.

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u/thembearjew 4h ago

*sees Harris county* ya they are very very very serious about 911 in that county. I work with them professionally and the admin staff at Harris are so on it nothing happens without them knowing their director scares the shit out of me lol