Ambulance crew sickness levels ‘disappointing’

[JPINFV]

key word being MUTUAL. not mutual as in "this is the job, take it or leave it", but mutual as in "this is what we plan to give you, is there anything else you want?" plus if the decision is taking a bad job to put food on the table and a roof over your head and not accepting the bad job and going hungry, what would you do?

Take the bad job for as short a period as needed. However, even in a bad job doing your best has merit. How many managers at companies (in general, not just EMS) have started at an entry level position?

Also, all employment is, in the end, mutual. Last time I checked slavery was unconstitutional and by showing up you're giving, at minimum, tacit approval to the companies treatment of you.

because the employer is typically a bully. they have minimal intentions to give anything more than they absolutely have to, regardless of if it would be helpful, to the employee. plus, if the potential employee doesn't accept the crappy job, than someone else will.

How many employees have no intention to do more than the minimum required? Hmm, employees want to do minimal amount of work for maximum amount of pay and employers want the maximum amount of work for a minimum amount of pay. I'm sure there's some place in the middle to meet. The problem is what happens when only one side actually comes to the table?

There is a company by me that is a :censored::censored::censored::censored:ty company, that I worked for for 3 months. when i was hired they asked how much i wanted to be paid, and I said $11 an hour, since I have 10 years of experienced, 15+ certifications, a bachelor's degree, 3 instructor certificates, and am cross trained as a firefighter. The boss said they would pay me $9 an hour, with no benefits. why? because an 18 year old who just got his EMT card is considered my equal in the eyes of the state minimum requirements to staff an ambulance, and he will accept $9 an hour. not much of a mutual agreement, but I needed a job.

First off, let's be serious. How many certifications actually mattered? CPR/BCLS? Ok, everyone has that. ACLS/PALS/etc? Relatively useless as an EMT. Fire fighter certification(s)? Were you being employed to fight fires? Things like EVOC (regardless of the actual worth), PHTLS, etc might be useful. How many of them were instructor courses? Did you offer to help run courses as a part of your employment?

Did you set a time to get reevaluated for a raise? If I went to work long term now, I'd definitely be open to a lower starting wage provided a reevaluation was done in, say, 3-4 months once I could establish my worth isn't just on paper. Did you offer to help with chart reviews? A BS might not be completely helpful playing medi-taxi, but it's useful in the QA/training department?

 

[DrParasite]

How many employees have no intention to do more than the minimum required? Hmm, employees want to do minimal amount of work for maximum amount of pay and employers want the maximum amount of work for a minimum amount of pay. I'm sure there's some place in the middle to meet. The problem is what happens when only one side actually comes to the table?

go watch the movie Office Space, pay close attention to Jennifer Aniston's part involving flair.

First off, let's be serious. How many certifications actually mattered? CPR/BCLS? Ok, everyone has that. ACLS/PALS/etc? Relatively useless as an EMT. Fire fighter certification(s)? Were you being employed to fight fires? Things like EVOC (regardless of the actual worth), PHTLS, etc might be useful. How many of them were instructor courses? Did you offer to help run courses as a part of your employment?

off the top of my head, PHTLS, ISC300, HazMat Operations, PEARS, PEPP, CBRNE Operations, EVOC, GEMS, and those don't even include my rescue or firefighter ones, or my dispatching ones (some which are great when it comes to diffusing hostile situations).

Did you set a time to get reevaluated for a raise? If I went to work long term now, I'd definitely be open to a lower starting wage provided a reevaluation was done in, say, 3-4 months once I could establish my worth isn't just on paper. Did you offer to help with chart reviews? A BS might not be completely helpful playing medi-taxi, but it's useful in the QA/training department?

you never have had a real job have you? not knocking your med school education, but have you ever had a "real" job for over a year, that you needed to pay your bills? you seem widely optimistic, which can be good, but it can (not will, but can) lead you to a shocker when you work 3-6 months, busting your butt, doing chart reviews, and every extra task you can, only to be told after the 6 month period "you're a good employee, thanks!!" and when you ask for a raise, be told that no, you won't get getting it. I know when you become a doctor, you will be working for peanuts, and you will (hopefully) make a lot of money, but there are a lot of crappy bosses out there that will screw their employees just because they can, or rather, just because someone bigger than them will not tell them that they can't do it. and if you don't like their decision, go find another job, because the next person they replace you with will be paid the lowest level possible as well.

and just for the record, I haven't done IFTs since I was in college as a summer job. I do 911s only. So having rescue training can help with car accidents, and other rescue situations, as well as the hazmat and cbrne stuff. ditto the ICS training, esp when you go to the mass casualty. and those certs also help me as a dispatcher, since i know what questions to ask from a field provider's point of view, and what they want to know, not just what a set of cards is asking about.