When I was promoted to Allocator, I was told there was a chance I’d have to change desks and even teams, but I rather brushed it to the back of my mind, thinking that as there was a vacancy on my current desk (the North East), I’d get to stay there. Well, management seem to have had other ideas, because I was told this week I am moving teams (so a whole new rota, and new colleagues) AND desks (so a whole new area to get to know). It really feels like a whole new job now! I’m going to miss my old deskmates – we had a really good team there and I expect they will fall apart without me to keep them in check, hahaha. But I’m quite looking forward to my new desk too – I’ve worked with my new deskmates before and they all seem really nice. And it’s nice to get to know a new area – I’ve been on the North East for about three years now and I know it inside out.
My new area is the East Central which means I’m covering places like Newham, Docklands, Shoreditch, Islington and the now-dreaded City Airport. It’s quite a small area geographically (so no running ambulances five miles) but very busy. There’s some very poor areas in it, which means a lot of timewasters and low priority calls, and also a lot of bars and clubs, which means fights and stabbings and drama. On the whole I think it’ll be an interesting sector to work on! It also means I’ll be in charge of Tom Reynolds’ ambulance so he’d better be nice to me 
February 16th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Darn, that means you’re no longer in the area I live. I hope your replacement is as good as you seem to be…
Good luck with the new desk, I can imagine it not being the most fun of areas.
February 16th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Good luick, will be interesting to see your different views on the same jobs.
February 16th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Oh bugger.
I’m doomed now aren’t I.
I’m the one that sounds like a prat on the radio.
February 17th, 2009 at 11:11 am
“I’m the one that sounds like a prat on the radio.”
What…Chris Moyles? :0)
February 17th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Ho Ho Ho.
She’ll have to put up with ‘Barney’ as well.
February 17th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
City Airport should be interesting… It does actually do a good job at safe ops, I mean the pilots, Air Traffic Control and everyone else involved, considering the surroundings and unusually steep approach path. If anything goes wrong there, (sincerely I hope it won’t) it’s gonna be mayhem.
February 17th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Good luck in your new area. I look forward to reading about how you get on.
February 17th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
I live opposite Shoreditch Ambulance Station – how exciting! I’ll think of you when I hear ambulances shrieking down my road in the early hours of the morning
February 17th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
oh no yer anther new person to get used to on the end of the phone on NE desk
February 18th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
I think it’s the other way round – you have to be nice to Tom Reynolds, or a zillion people will hear about it and tut under their breath… Good luck with the move, anyway.
February 18th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Rachel – hahaha, you have a very good point there! It could actually benefit both our blogs as we can provide each other with missing parts of stories. I just have to work out which ambulance he’s on first
May 28th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
great thread