Recent content by SigOne

OK, if you want a link it's a simple fix, but it just won't be tonight. That requires a little bit of time to pull off for me.

Maybe you missed the citation? In one of the earliest posts, I included the following reference number to the Dept of Labor's OFCCP (complaint # I00180804). Which was posted in response to a question, I believe by FAA1, asking for more details. Also, if you need more verification, there was a...

But of course If you have a grievance, then you have an axe to grind. I stated my experience, so that others may be warned. It's up to the reader to heed it or not. I write about Falck because I have direct experience, that there has been a very long thread on EMT Life about Falck being...

Answer to your first point? 1) If someone knows about a topic, they should be able to post about it with some authority--whether it's one post or a quadrillion. The content either persuades or it doesn't. Some skepticism is always appropriate, it's part of the scientific method. Would people...

Reply to Dr know it all For someone so smug, and professing to be skeptical, you seem quite eager to believe the cover story most favorable to management. So you know more than people who were actually there? And so you choose to believe GEM people who have been there less than a week now, and...

Well, it finally made one newspaper in NJ. Falck USA subsidiary Lifestar USA pulled a short-notice shutdown of Lifestar Response of NJ's on Jan 15th, 2014. Workers said they had nine days notice. Herald News of North Jersey paper carried a drive-by phone interview of Lifestar USA spokesman, who...

Lifestar continues practice of firing people at 5 year mark Lifestar continues its practice of firing people at the 5 year mark. Company fires some, reportedly to cut down on insurance rates, then hires more people later on, reportedly at a lower hourly rate. Business level stays about the...

Here's some of the gory details The complaint filed with the US Dept of Labor OFCCP (#100180804) against Falck and its subsidiaries, Falck USA (Washington state) and Lifestar USA (Washington, D.C) alleged several claims of discrimination against veterans: * That one dispatcher...

You can see the whole package ... if you let me know of a snail-mail address where the info can get to you. You'll need a mailbox that can handle a 9 x 12 package of about 70 pages. It doesn't have to be your home address, which you probably don't want posted on the forum anyway. Maybe where...

Caller: Operator, I'm not entirely sure of this, but I think my wife is dead ... 9-1-1 operator: Why do you think that? Caller: Well, the sex is the same, but the laundry keeps piling up

For a look at how they treat United States veterans, try a freedom of information act (FOIA) request on the following case at the US Dept of Labor's Office of Federal Compliance Programs (OFCCP), complaint number 100180804. If you're a veteran, you might want to have a nitro pill handy.