My opinion is if your dicking around at work your at risk of heading out the door at any time. For example the other day we had some guys in from another country working on a product and we have this guy who has worked here for several years. He has this thing he does jokingly where he pulls a knife out on somebody else. He did this to the foreigner and then he got reported and now he's fired. Zero tolerance, you do something stupid get out. There's plenty of other people willing to take the job. If you can't act responsibly 100% of the time then goodbye. How would you like it if your family member had a heart attack and you called 911 and they told you "that's what you get for eating at Mcdonalds" and then hung up? When somebody calls 911 they are probably under stress enough they don't need some dickhead to add to it, irregardless of what the individual was doing when they got hurt. It's not a 911 operators duty to gauge how serious the matter is.
And personally if I was in the state that is paying someone $47,000 overtime to watch construction sites I'd be pissed about that too. They should add another worker. My sister is a cop she gets overtime from watching car dealers lots but the car dealers pay her not the police force. My .02 1/2