Joe R. Lansdale

I was a house dad. Once, my wife was working as a dispatcher at the fire department, and I was staying home and writing while baby-sitting my son, who hardly ever slept. So I wrote in twenty-minute patches. Some of that early stuff is just dreadful. I got a thousand rejects.

American Writer

Manuel Moroun

I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.

American Businessman

Often used in critical services for rapid response, like police or medical emergencies.

Emergency Context

The dispatcher acts as the central point of communication, coordinating multiple units.

Communications Hub

Dispatchers must remain composed, as they deal with stressful and high-stakes situations.

Calm Under Pressure

In computing, dispatchers are software that manage how computers execute multiple tasks.

Software Control

Dispatchers in software decide the order and importance of task execution.

Task Prioritization

Dispatchers in computing must handle several tasks efficiently without errors.

Multitasking

 that represent police, fire and rescue, and a dispatcher can grab them and place them on the map to tell those units where to go, and then the position of the units on the map gets synced up with the position of those units in the real world. This is a video chat application.

James Patten: The best...

 DISPATCHER --checking out. We've got bottles through the window. DISPATCHER in that area. We have a fireman shot. We have a fireman shot. We need help immediately. DISPATCHER Roger. We can't make it down in front with a gurney.