Advice on dealing with a dumb partner

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Hey guys,

I'm a new guy here on the forums and need some advice on dealing with a new partner, and somewhere in general to vent about him. For starters, I am an EMT-B out of Mass who works for a private company. I have had my ticket for almost a year (about 11 months) and have been working on a truck for roughly 8 months. I recently had one of my permanent partners go out on disability due to tearing his labrum in his shoulder and the surrounding muscles, essentially ripping his shoulder in half. He also just finished medic school, so he was leaving me anyways, the injury just sped up the process.

His replacement was/ is a chair car driver for our company who recently got his ticket and started working on a truck (about 1 and a half months ago). Chair car being the guy who takes the patients from nursing homes in wheel chairs and loads them into a regular van and transports them, no medical reasons to go by ambulance.

Recently the company has decided, along with now having him working on an ambulance, to train him in dispatch. We work out of a satellite garage and dispatch is in the division head quarters. Basically division head quarters would be like North station 1 and we would be out of station 3. Anyways, he was in head quarters talking :censored::censored::censored::censored: about everyone in the satellite garage throwing most of us under the bus for stupid :censored::censored::censored::censored: that isnt true, trying to make himself sound like a super EMT.

:censored::censored::censored::censored: like this has happened in the past though, he was a junior firefighter/ hang around type guy with a couple of town fire departments (3 at least) and pulled this same :censored::censored::censored::censored: at one of them, talking :censored::censored::censored::censored: to one chief about another department. Little did he know that that chief was good friends with the chief from the town he was talking :censored::censored::censored::censored: about. When he went back to that town to see the guys, he was greeted by the chief and 2 on duty guys who told him to get the :censored::censored::censored::censored: out of the station and never come back.

He also has a little man complex. He knows everything and the rest of us are :censored::censored::censored::censored::censored::censored::censored:s who dont know what we're doing and have no right to tell him how to do his job, even though the ink on his ticket is still wet. He also dropped a patient last week and tried to blame his partner.

I dont work with him until Tuesday and planned on confronting him about his attitude and accusations, but dont know what to do or what to say. As the type of person I am, I want to throw him into a corner and beat the piss out of him, but i like having my job and dont want to deal with getting chewed out for doing something everyone wants to do to him. My other partner has been doing this job for 20 some odd years and told me just to let it go because no matter where I go or who I work for in this field there will always be this type of person to contend with.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
 
Take a deep breath, let him run his mouth, and forget about him. Only if he makes it so you cannot do your job should you confront him.

Saying from my dad: don't fight with streetcar conductors and elevator clerks. Not worth the high blood pressure.
 
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ghost02 said:
Take a deep breath, let him run his mouth, and forget about him. Only if he makes it so you cannot do your job should you confront him.

Saying from my dad: don't fight with streetcar conductors and elevator clerks. Not worth the high blood pressure.
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great advice.
 
It sounds like you haven't even worked with him yet! Maybe he'll be different than the rumors if you give him a chance?
 
Masenko said:
It sounds like you haven't even worked with him yet! Maybe he'll be different than the rumors if you give him a chance?
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I've worked with him several times. He was also a third rider with me and my partner before he went out as well.
 
I'm with your other partner. Forget about it. If he really is as bad as you say he won't last.

If you kick his *** getting chewed out would be the least of my concerns. I'd be more worried about criminal charges, losing my job, losing my EMT certification, things along those lines.

The ink on your ticket is still wet too boss, you're no war hardened veteran at 8 months in the field.

He hasn't done anything to you, how do you expect to work together if the first words out of your mouth to him are "you're an :censored::censored::censored::censored::censored::censored::censored: because of x, y and z." Hate to break it to you but if you came to work with me with that attitude you wouldn't be riding on the truck let alone be near any patients.

I will ask this, how are you any better than him if you just run to the Internet and talk :censored::censored::censored::censored: about him? It's the same concept, just some food for thought while you look in the mirror and reevaluate your priorities.

KCCO
 
ghost02 said:
Take a deep breath, let him run his mouth, and forget about him. Only if he makes it so you cannot do your job should you confront him.

Saying from my dad: don't fight with streetcar conductors and elevator clerks. Not worth the high blood pressure.
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chill out. if he's a moron then he wont last. who cares what he says about you.
 
ghost02 said:
Take a deep breath, let him run his mouth, and forget about him. Only if he makes it so you cannot do your job should you confront him.

Saying from my dad: don't fight with streetcar conductors and elevator clerks. Not worth the high blood pressure.
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Sounds to me like he has almost as much to be concerned about with having you as a partner.

From what I see you're the one gossiping and whining about this guy, saying you are going to confront him and would like to beat the piss out of him, despite the fact I dont see any mention of anything he's done to you personally.

Also, who cares if hes a new EMT when you've been one for all of 8 months. You make it sound like 8 months on a BLS truck makes you Nick Cage from bringing out the dead. Is this your first real job in any field?

If this guy is half as bad as you say he is, sounds like you two deserve each other, but God help your patients.

This might seem harsh, but two things I cant stand are gossips, and wet behind the ears kids who think they are something special because they've been an EMT for a few months.
 
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hogwiley said:
Sounds to me like he has almost as much to be concerned about with having you as a partner.

From what I see you're the one gossiping and whining about this guy, saying you are going to confront him and would like to beat the piss out of him, despite the fact I dont see any mention of anything he's done to you personally.

Also, who cares if hes a new EMT when you've been one for all of 8 months. You make it sound like 8 months on a BLS truck makes you Nick Cage from bringing out the dead. Is this your first real job in any field?

If this guy is half as bad as you say he is, sounds like you two deserve each other, but God help your patients.

This might seem harsh, but two things I cant stand are gossips, and wet behind the ears kids who think they are something special because they've been an EMT for a few months.
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Harsh? He took it to this forum so he wouldn't act inappropriately where it matters... and it's not like he he mentioned his 8 months of experience to put himself in a superior position.
 
Haha, I've been in your shoes man. Exact same thing, guys who have run wheelie vans for decades become EMTs and they start getting a superior attitude. There isn't anything you can do but bite your tongue and grit it out.

Unless you're his supervisor, just let him be. Maybe talk to whoever does your scheduling and ask not to be put on a truck with him. Helps to be friendly with said scheduling guy though, lol.
 
Some people just suck to work with. Either kill him with kindness or brain him with a rock when nobody is looking.

Chive on!
 
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