Comments for "How to lose your job in 28 seconds." Video at VideoSift.com

By LadyBug

LadyBug (http://ladybug.videosift.com) — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:43:51 -0700

*mouth still agape*

By westy

westy (http://www.videosift.com/member/westy) — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:06:15 -0700

lol respect to the cop

By K0MMIE

K0MMIE (http://www.videosift.com/member/K0MMIE) — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:23:00 -0700

there has to be a news story to accompany this... oh well i work for the state... and well... yeah most people are idiots.

By LadyBug

LadyBug (http://ladybug.videosift.com) — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:34:49 -0700

myself as well, kommie ... and it takes a lot for a state employee to be fired!

here's the follow-up news story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7492902/

By cardboardhut

cardboardhut (http://www.videosift.com/member/cardboardhut) — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:53:21 -0700

Sort-of related, in case you haven't heard it yet: the amazing Burger King 911 call:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/bk.html

By LadyBug

LadyBug (http://ladybug.videosift.com) — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:59:49 -0700

how is the burger king call "sort-of related"?? *lost* it's not like the dispatcher offered to send an officer down there to shoot the manager!

By quantumushroom

quantumushroom (http://www.videosift.com/member/quantumushroom) — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:35:41 -0700

Maybe if the stupid breeder had used the same sternness with her offspring she reserved for Mike, she wouldn't have brats for bastards.

By daphne

daphne (http://www.videosift.com/member/daphne) — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:39:07 -0700

Of COURSE it was in Texas. That's the Good Ol' Boy system at it's finest.

If it had been a woman or a minority, this story would have had a different ending.

By bnsa

bnsa (http://www.videosift.com/member/bnsa) — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 06:14:26 -0700

Some people have no sense of humor... LOL

By drforeverclear

drforeverclear (http://www.videosift.com/member/drforeverclear) — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 06:19:14 -0700

How do you get the job of answer the calls? Do they put the lowest scored people on this job? What a dolt.

By phelixian

phelixian (http://www.videosift.com/member/phelixian) — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:39:10 -0700

I like Mike.

By pickleking

pickleking (http://www.videosift.com/member/pickleking) — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:51:00 -0700

Unfortunately, the title of this post "How To Lose Your Job...." doesn't reflect the actual actions in this instance.

According to the msnbc story that LadyBug linked to... Mike-the idiot dispatcher-only received a scolding, while his boss said that NEXT time would result in termination.

I never cease to be amazed by the idiocy and incompetance too often exhibited by the police. UGH!

By oohahh

oohahh (http://oohahh.videosift.com) — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:15:59 -0700

Yeah, I like Mike, too. Poor sap. Doesn't he know that you're supposed to make those jokes *after* you hang up? ;-)

By coreburn

coreburn (http://www.videosift.com/member/coreburn) — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:42:43 -0700

If she needs to "physically control" her kids, she's probably not a good parent anyway...
And if a cop went over there and the kid was to attack the cop, he could shoot her couldn't he?
Just from hearing a few seconds of her talking, she doesn't sound like a person I'd want to meet or have as a mother.

By Rifter

Rifter (http://www.videosift.com/member/Rifter) — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:32:27 -0700

The lady is a moron. She can't control a 12 year old? the 12 year old is as big as her... That child must be a monster... or she is a pathetic mother... your choice. The dispatcher made a bad joke, but that was all it was a joke.

By darksun

darksun (http://darksun.videosift.com) — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:41:03 -0700

poor mike, poor poor mike.

By Farhad2000

Farhad2000 (http://farhad.videosift.com) — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 22:19:05 -0700

12 year old kid? Fucking smack her... wtf kind of pussy ass parent are you?

By SnakePlissken

SnakePlissken (http://www.videosift.com/member/SnakePlissken) — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 22:28:14 -0700

If you ever act on an impulse to inflict physical violence on your children, you've already failed as a parent.

By pho3n1x

pho3n1x (http://pho3n1x.videosift.com) — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 23:45:03 -0700

i was brought up to expect a belt or a switch to the buttocks if i was real bad. i turned out just fine.
if you don't ever discipline your children (at all, i mean cmon, at least discipline them verbally) then imagine an entire planet of Paris Hilton's.

By SnakePlissken

SnakePlissken (http://www.videosift.com/member/SnakePlissken) — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 23:53:46 -0700

"at all, i mean cmon, at least discipline them verbally"

That's where discipline begins and ends in my opinion. When you get physical you cross the line into intellectual redundancy and child abuse. Who really wants to give their kids a violent role model?

Apologies if my comments ruffle any feathers but I just don't think hitting children is acceptable for any reason whatsoever, however desperate and lost the parent might be.

By bamdrew

bamdrew (http://www.videosift.com/member/bamdrew) — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:38:20 -0700

kicked a hole in the door and she calls the cops? what a pussy mom...

Only excuse I can come up with; single mother... a lot of other stresses on her mind, and no father to help instill a little fear of reprisal for misconduct.

By lucky760

lucky760 (http://lucky760.videosift.com) — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:22:14 -0700

What a comedian. This guy should be on stage.

By czechrite

czechrite (http://www.videosift.com/member/czechrite) — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:35:02 -0700

Although we don't know the exact situation it doesn't really matter whether or not the parent should have called 911 or dealth with the situation herself.

911 recordings/transcripts are used in court and a comment like that at the wrong time could even create confusion in the wrong situation. The comment may have been funny, per se...but not in that situation. He's not a bloody inbound phone rep for life insurance...he's a 911 operator who should be thinking more clearly.

Like someone said, make the joke to your co-workers AFTER hanging up.

By eric3579

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By pho3n1x

pho3n1x (http://pho3n1x.videosift.com) — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:50:17 -0700

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By MarineGunrock

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By Zor

Zor (http://www.videosift.com/member/Zor) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:18:39 -0800

Notice how she completely forgets about her 12 year old kicking a hole in the floor and begins her rant about how she is going to file a formal complaint. Not just any complaint-a FORMAL complaint! Some parents use the police to threaten their children and the kids grow up to think police are their parents. Like on COPS. Probably a step mother.

By suntzu

suntzu (http://www.videosift.com/member/suntzu) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:17:28 -0800

What I would have said: "Yes, would you be so kind?"

By MycroftHomlz

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By cheesemoo

cheesemoo (http://www.videosift.com/member/cheesemoo) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:24:29 -0700

It seemed like he was saying "okay, what the hell do you want me to do about it?"

This is 911, not a daycare hotline.

By Camhuffman

Camhuffman (http://www.videosift.com/member/Camhuffman) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:51:58 -0700

Imagine the outcry if he'd have said "Okay, did you want us to come over there and taze her?"