How 911 really feels about your problems...

[SSN Vet]

This off Fox News....
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,355815,00.html

so who needs a gun for personal protection, when there is 911.

This is not indicative of how our employees treat citizens.

Let's see...Roth was a Nashville employee....Roth treated a Nashville citizen this way....Roth continued to be a Nashville employee for a month afterwards....If Roth wasn't caught on tape he'd still be there doing the same thing.....SO REALLY IT IS INDICATIVE OF HOW SOME OF YOUR EMPLOYEES TREAT CITIZENS.



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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Nashville 911 operator has been fired after he was recorded saying that he didn't "give a s—-" about what happened to a woman who had just called to report her ex-boyfriend was threatening her.

Emergency Communications Center spokeswoman Amanda Sluss said Wednesday that Frank Roth was in training during the February incident and was fired a month later.

Roth made the comments after promising police would arrive soon for a woman who called saying her ex-boyfriend held her at knifepoint and later was threatening her.

After hanging up with her but while still being recorded, he said, "I really don't give a s—- what happens to you."

Sluss said incident is not reflective of how 911 operators treat callers and that "a series of errors" led to the three-hour delay in response to the emergency call.

"Certainly this particular caller didn't receive the service she deserved," Sluss said. "This is not indicative of how our employees treat citizens. It's not something that should have been said. It's not what we train our employees to do."

Nashville TV station WTVF first reported the story after one of its reporters obtained the 911 recording.

 

[Car Knocker]

Roth continued to be a Nashville employee for a month afterwards...

Public employees generally belong to unions and/or have a contract. It takes a certain amount of time to go through the mandated procedures to terminate an employee, unlike many private employers (especially in an "at will" state) who can fire someone in minutes. Usually employees headed for termination are placed on administrative leave, either paid or unpaid, that moves them out of the job but technically remain an employee until all the hoops are jumped through.

 

[Knotthead]

I saw this incident reported on the news this morning, both CNN and Fox I believe. It was reported that he was fired because he had failed a test, not as a result of this action.

 

[Eric F]

What does this have to with guns and or shooting? So what a 911 operator got tired of his job, it is really no diffrent than any other public servant getting tired of their jobs.

 

[Shadowangel]

So what a 911 operator got tired of his job, it is really no diffrent than any other public servant getting tired of their jobs.

Except that if Joe the icecream man decides selling icecream isn't for him, people don't DIE.

 

[Jeff White]

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Jeff