Please STOP

What is everyone complaining about this morning? I'm sorry it's an inconvenient time for you, but the point is to get all available eyes on the issue.

Not just an inconvenience, though. Well ok, today it was - home sick anyway - but otherwise a sleepless night would cost be a day of work. And with chronic insomnia, that could trigger a week or two without sleep. That is more than inconvenient,

I have a disabled life-partner who is dependent on me to do all shopping and most household chores, it is more than inconvenient if I can't do that for him.

I also happen to work at a registered charity, and since we are small that means that if several people miss work for any reason, our clients do not get help. That is more than an inconvenience. (I already feel guilty every time I take a sick day.)

In other words, in some cases this Amber Alert system causes DIRECT HARM. And this could be prevented if there was a way to opt, or silence them, or even have the DND setting on my phone respected. But nope, so such option.

What I do face is abuse by everyone the second I mention that this system causes problems.

But who am I to complain? At least I don't get panic attacks like a friend does thanks to PTSD. We're talking running around the apartment yelling, in a panic, neighbors threatening to call 911, type of panic attacks. And yes, the Amber Alert has triggered them before.

/r/ottawa Thread Parent