One of my old partners got pulled in for an investigation today. The photo is not of him – it’s of a paramedic in California trying to eat something for the first time in nearly ten hours.
My old partner was told that a member of the public took photos of him and his current partner. My buddy was sleeping, and his partner was eating. This member of the public sent the photos with an email that both complained about how “unprofessional” it appeared – and a threat to send the photos to the media.
Thanks to Prop 11 in California, first responders no longer have a right to breaks. AMR lied to the public in a huge way. California was the only state where emergency crews had been granted a legal right to breaks to use the latrine and have a meal. Shifts run a minimum of 12 hours, often 24, and AMR runs their crews into the ground.
My buddy and his partner are in trouble because they were trying to get rest and food while posted on a street corner because we don’t get breaks. This is what AMR tells us to do. Please don’t see something like this and assume that we’re being lazy or not doing our jobs. Don’t take photos or send them to the press. That crew is probably exhausted and overworked.
Not to mention they hold us 911 coverage units over regularly “for just one last transfer call that will be really quick.” When there are plenty of transfer only units posted at hospitals doing nothing at the beginning of their shifts. It also tanks our levels and leaves a lot of the city uncovered for emergency calls.
The thing is everytime you complain about something like people taking breaks, it’s not that you gain something from It, you just make life worse for other people. How about minding your own damn business?
Seems like common sense that people doing a high-stress job that requires a lot of good judgement on matters of life and death should be able to eat and piss when they need to
Excuse me. I want the people responsible for saving my life to be tired hungry and thinking only that their bladder is going to explode. It makes me feel like they care.
So my little brother works at Sandia Labs, which he loves; he’s a physicist and engineer, and good at it. He just got hired a few months ago, and is like bottom of the clearance level totem pole, but.
Apparently the lab loaned a seismometer to a missile test site, who broke it.
So they gave it back to the lab with an apology, and the lab went “welp fuck guess we’ll buy a new one”
“Wait a minute,” my brother says. “I think I got this.”
He proceeded to google up the user manual for the model, take it apart, clean it, and put it back together.
It now works flawlessly and his bosses think he’s a goddamned genius because he just saved them 20k with four minutes of google searching.
He specifically works as an engineer in their super-computing research division; he did his master’s on quantum computing technology.
What I’m saying is that he LITERALLY works in an office full of nuclear physicists, engineers, and rocket scientists and he impressed them by knowing how to google a product number.
I’m dying, as a mechanical engineering intern this is entirely my life. I fixed a machine worth 175k by sitting down, actually reading the manual, and disconnecting and reconnecting two wires that were in the wrong place. Smart people can be dumb.
He even told them what he did.
“I googled up the user manual.”
“You can DO that???? YOU ARE BRILLIANT.”
“….you know what, yes. You are correct. I am. Raise my pay grade please.”
The moral of this story is that don’t sell your own skills short, kids, knowing how to google shit is a marketable skill.
Hol up did they actually give him a raise after he said that
Your rashes, blemishes, scars and bruises has not made you ugly
Not being able to shower has not made you ugly
Flashbacks and paranoia has not made you ugly
Changes in your body and brain has not made you ugly
Having seizures has not made you ugly
Your trauma, depression and anxiety has not made you ugly
Your hallucinations, brain fog, and confusion has not made you ugly
Your lack of control over your body, brain, mood and life has not made you ugly.
Please never feel ashamed or ugly about what your illness has done to you, no matter what it has changed it can not change the beauty that you have, so even if you feel like youre not beautiful right now, please remember,
You are beautiful and your disability can never take that from you.
I hope it’s okay if I add on, but
Your tics have not made you ugly
Your braces have not made you ugly
Your other mobility aids have not made you ugly
Your lack of energy has not made you ugly
Your patchy hair has not made you ugly
Your weight, whether too high or too low, has not made you ugly
Your amputation has not made you ugly
Your prosthetics have not made you ugly
Your insulin pump has not made you ugly
Your dependence on others has not made you ugly
Your inability to work has not made you ugly
And this applies to all disabled people, not just ones who are otherwise conventionally attractive or who fit the disabled and cute/cripple punk aesthetic
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