238167's blog: "Inside the Angel's Mind"

Detective Horn was right when he said this job would eventually make me bitter like it has some of the other dispatchers. I don't know about anyone else, but with the past few jobs I have had, I have noticed a difference between working in a large workforce and a small one. People pick on you less (when you're new) in a large workforce. Co-workers and bosses have more to do apparently and don't try to keep themselves busy with coming up with petty excuses to nag at someone. In a small workforce, I've always had more trouble. The bosses either grew to dislike me in some way and usually from hearsay of jealous co-workers that were afraid the 'new girl' would surpass them in something. Or the co-workers would simply try to spark some kind of enmity. And you notice this most when you're new because the people either feel uncomfortable because you ARE new and they don't know what your personality is like or because you do appear to be successful and they're threatened by that. I really wish I could just plain take an extended break from working at all and maybe I'd get my positive work morale back, but I can't afford it right now. I'm almost positive a break from working at all would make me a better person overall because I've become really tired of the "retaliation" complaints.

I've seen this post quite a few times, usually once a month. Firstly, I find it hard to believe that gas station attendants wouldn't notice someone affixing hypodermic needles to gas station pumps. Secondly, it's a hoax that started out as a terror chain email. When these emails started out originally, it was from a Captain Abraham Sands of the Jacksonville Police Dept in Florida. There is no Jacksonville Police Department. Jacksonville is served by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. There is no Captain Abraham Sands employed by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. A new version of the Capt. Sands/pump needles email is circulating. It is identical to the original except that someone changed all references to Jacksonville, Florida to Buffalo, New York. Needless to say, there is no Capt. Sands in Buffalo or Jacksonville. Now there are newer versions now stating anybody saying anything but just giving the warning and having the same amount of cases (usually 16 or 17). On the other hand, urban legends have multitudes of variations. Why? People have faulty memories. I wish people everywhere would stop sending it along because it isn't true.

I think this site is a rip-off if you have to pay for these 'blasts'. Most of the blasts you even read are: "Rate my profile and pics! I'm so hungry for internet attention!". As if what the people think whom you'll never meet should really matter to you.

This is such a 'duh' thing to do. On a different blogging site, someone . . . I'll be nice and not say his username, or maybe I should, sent me a 1 sentence message (with bad typing and grammar skill; does no one capitalize the beginning of sentences anymore?) which was less than 10 words about how I needed to get a life because life in America was all I knew. No . . . really, Sherlock? I live here. From what I understand there are quite a few other countries that are no better or worse than the US also. I don't go out of my way to send random people I don't know messages and email telling them to get a life or otherwise, so I don't understand why over the years, people have done this. Normally I just brush it off because I really don't care about a stranger's opinion. I will never meet you. You will never meet me. What is the point in telling someone to get a life . . . especially over the internet? What does that prove? If a person has to tell someone to get a life over the internet, then it seems to me that particular individual perhaps spends too much time on the net themselves and obviously, has no life to worry his little head over what I think about incidents. Either that, or some people are too oblivious to the world around them. A lot more happens than what you think. You just never hear about it. For instance, I thought I lived in a nice, quiet little town until I started working at a police station. I had no idea how much trouble my town had on nearly a daily basis. It winds up making you numb. It makes you want to tell other people who are ignorant of these facts to just shut up and then shake some sense into them. Oh, and by the way, I spent some time in Europe, but nevermind that. After all, the only life I know is America.

Okay, I realize people get "points" whatever they're good for, but I'm getting tired profile comments that say "I rated you a 10. Please stop by my profile and rate mine!" If I want to rate your profile, I will. If I don't, I won't. Rating someone's profile in the hopes that they will rate yours is selfish and then asking them to stop by and rate is narcisstic. It's about as bad as MySpace when people BEG for comments. If you have to get your jollies from the internet from people you will most likely never meet, then you don't live enough of a real life.

What is wrong with these women who will kidnap other women's babies? Some women have even killed very pregnant women and cut the baby right out of the body. Sick. Well, I'm sure everyone has a clue as to what's wrong with them, but I can't imagine what it would be like to lose someone you love and have given birth to some psychotic witch. If these women want babies so bad, they should either adopt, go to a sperm bank, or go have sex when they're fertile. But that costs money, right? So I suppose kidnapping is a lot cheaper. Too bad they'll have a screwed history for the rest of their lives when they're caught

Yeah, pretty new here. And when I first logged on, all I did was keep hearing these weird sounds and having no idea where they were coming from. I figured out that's an alert system. I still don't know what this 'poking' business is all about and I know there's a help link next to it, but the menu doesn't say anything about what a poke is.