RocketMedic
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I'm guessing that company totally sucked? Southern CA?
You might work for a private if.....
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I'm guessing that company totally sucked? Southern CA?
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When the oldest truck in the fleet has 37k miles on it and some employees still moan that they have to work in an "old" truck. Every truck gets pulled by the mechanics every 3 to 5k miles for preventative maintenance too. Mmm I dislike whiners.
SoCal911
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The next crew?
Martyn
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...or you are working with a newly hired first responder who, when you are on the way to pick up a patient and come across a major motor vehicle crash, say's 'Oh, what? Are we stopping then?' as I reach for the reflective vest and hit the lights!!! (my reply? 'Oh hell yeah, I wanna play')
Sasha
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Our newest truck has 120k miles on it.
WolfmanHarris
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My answer would be: I'm no longer covered by your insurance. I can't drive your vehicle. Come get it.
emt11
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Now that's how you do it. Lol.
Tetrahedron
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When you cry on pay day!
SoCal911
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My first company was like this!!! I'd always show up a half hour early, swap my stuff and take off as soon as my partner showed
armywifeemt
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You have amassed a vast collection of cheesy lines to say to your patients to make them laugh and/or not throw things at you. Ex: "We'd never drop you. It is WAY too much paperwork" "We like to do everything we can to make our vict.... I mean, patients, as comfortable as possible"
You have at some point had a strong urge to track down whoever is responsible for (insert name of highway here) being some kind of godawful mess, strap that person to a backboard, and go 70 down that particular road with them on your cot.
On a daily basis, you wonder how dispatchers manage to remain talking and breathing while apparently lacking anything even remotely resembling a brain.
Fortunately a lot of the examples prior to my post don't apply to the company I work for now... but they applied to the last one I was at in a major way.
You have at some point had a strong urge to track down whoever is responsible for (insert name of highway here) being some kind of godawful mess, strap that person to a backboard, and go 70 down that particular road with them on your cot.
On a daily basis, you wonder how dispatchers manage to remain talking and breathing while apparently lacking anything even remotely resembling a brain.
Fortunately a lot of the examples prior to my post don't apply to the company I work for now... but they applied to the last one I was at in a major way.
adamjh3
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They're supposed to have wheels? : ph34r:
FourLoko
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You can predict your next call based on the time and location of your last clearing.
thetincan
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you have no bed sheets for your stretcher but about 5 box fulls of ammonia inhalants on one rig. this happen on a clinical at a private company
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Remeber343
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5 boxes huh... That sounds like a good time waiting to happen
LifelongEMT
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When you call your Owner/Dispatcher and tell him the breaks are completely out and he asks you to drive back. And when you refuse he attempts too blows through 2 down hill intersections and into a field! LOL ^True Story!
MochaRaf
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I honestly can say that I would not want to work for someone who not only puts his whole company at risk, but my life as well.
Just out of curiosity, do you still work there?
LifelongEMT
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Unfortunatly yes because here there is no one hiring and EMS jobs are few and far between. Im a firefighter EMT but due to my age i have only a few places to be hired. Im only 20 so i have a problem....