I'm not wearing a headset to answer the phone, because I've loaned my phone headset to someone else while theirs is repaired.
You can SEE how awkward it is to cradle the handset between shoulder and ear, while attempting to fill out a dispatch card. (I didn't expect anyone to
take this picture, by the way...)
It's pretty cramped in there, if all four service desks are staffed. You can see the computer monitor for one of the positions behind my chair. Our computers are NOT
Computer-Aided-Dispatch terminals, by the way, but simply our access to CHP-specific and other local, state and national criminal justice telecommunications systems and databases.
We also have computerized system of handling calls from freeway call-boxes and rotation tow requests, so we don't do EVERYTHING manually.
Okay, in THIS picture, it's close to midnight on that same busy Saturday night, and I've finally gone back into my office to
complete some administrative bu....<ahem> ... paperwork. There are two Comm Sup desks crammed into
this small office space, along with a file cabinet, a bookcase of essential CHP manuals,
and a tape-dubbing logging recorder in a tall cabinet. My desk is ALWAYS messy, but I know where everything is.....