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I work for a city-operated municipal 3rd service and shorts in the summer are specifically allowed in our uniform regulations.

I am one hoopy frood who knows where my towel is!

Dennhop and I work for the same agency. We have a really great relationship with the FD. I have yet to respond to a motor vehicle incident that we beat them in arriving onscene to (because they have a lot more stations than we do), and they get in there and start the initial patient care. The...

Unlike me? lol I know what it is, I know what it's for, and I know where mine is.. I just didn't know the proper word for it. :) Hood. Now I know!

What, "neck sock thingie" isn't a real word for it? lol :p

Nope. We don't do blood draws in the field, haven't for many years.

We have full extrication gear. I last wore mine during our 'drills' in academy. 3 1/2 years ago... We have a winter coat and an extrication coat. I'm not sure which is which.. they both sit in my gear bag, folded neatly. With my never-worn helmet, gloves, neck-sock thingie (I think there's a...

At my agency, we are sworn. The full 'badging and swearing' ceremony and everything. As for perks.. well, I've noticed I get a great discount at Chick Fil A. And I love me some Chick Fil A.

We may work at the same place! :) City agency, yes, we have badges for our dress uniforms. I have been with the agency over 3 years, I've worn my badge ONCE. The day it was pinned on me... Our polo shirts are plenty 'professional' and while I'd much rather have a t-shirt in the summer too, I'll...

I've heard Seabands work, a non-med thing to try. Never used them myself but I've heard good things.

The biggest problem, IMO, with resurrecting years-old threads is that information can be dated. Protocols change, and the way something was done even 4 years ago can be different now. It's also can be confusing for people reading the thread, from the beginning for the first time, to recognize...

I showed up to work one day (I'm PRN, part-timer), and the truck had accidentally been double-staffed, AND there was a medic student with the preceptor-medic. So there were 4 of us on the truck. I called up and asked to go home. No need to be a clown car showing up onscene with people pouring...

Our agency used to have a mix of 24s and 12s. For the most part, the busier trucks were the 12s and the lower call volume trucks were the 24s. Sometimes even the quiet 24-hour trucks could get busy though. It made for a long 24 hours when they did. The busier trucks that were already 12s, some...

Our agency recently went to all 12s. It's fine. Really.

I was a FA for 7 years, husband is a pilot. I've been in and around the airline industry for over 20 years now. It IS confusing! Flight attendants and pilots are paid by the "block hour". Which is the time the plane leaves the gate, til it arrives at the gate. So the whole time the pilots &...

A new-hire airline flight attendant makes about $14k-$17k a year (depending on regional/mainline, hours flown). If they can't/won't pay their own employees decent wages, they're not about to go giving "discounts" on their product because another industry "works hard".

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Not that much.. it's just a personal preference kind of thing. I just find them annoying.

I hate jumpsuits, they're so hard to deal with while peeing. (Girls can't stand up to pee... have to disrobe my entire 'top', roll it up, keep it from falling on/dragging on the nasty bathroom floor.) I'm glad my agency doesn't have badges on our street uniforms. We have them, but they're on...

Personally I think it's kinda disrespectful to a real spouse to refer to a co-worker as a 'spouse'. If neither are married I guess there's nothing bad about it.