Currently working a 24 hour shift, and I gotta say, reading all 22 pages of this thread was a really informative and entertaining way to pass the shift along.
My only interaction with Ambulanz was gawking at their edgy looking company name and truck wrap at the Cedars and St. Johns ED bay. Unfortunately I never had a chance to talk to the crews, but I have a buncha questions next opportunity I get.
All of us who work in EMS obviously don't come to the private sector for the money (if that wasn't abundantly clear). It's a stepping stone to greater and meaner things. Coming from a family of EMS professionals, I like to believe that I take patient care and bedside manner very seriously on the job, among other things.
That being said, It really frustrates me to see brand new IFT companies approaching fresh EMTz, brand new and oblivious to the game and how it works in LA, promising milk and honey like new equipment, rigs, uniforms, and contracts (I remember my first company First med told me that they planned to get a county 911 contract/EOA the next time contracts were going to be negotiated).
These companies always fail to deliver, resulting in salty, burnt out EMTz who treat the job and title like garbage. (Like someone else mentioned earlier, EMTz in unshaven with gross looking uniforms, hauling *** on surface streets for a nonemergent transport, blasting music all the way) who spend the next couple of months, maybe even a year or two, trapped doing dialysis and CDO 5150s, until theyre discouraged enough to find a new career path, or luck out and get hired by one of the four 911 companies. I know the whole pop up ambulance dialysis/Medicare abuse system in LA county is nothing new, it's just disheartening, especially watching it happen in my home city of all places.
My take on this this compay is nothing new. a brand new company, with a fancy modern/urban/gendrified headquarters on the surface but at the end of the day just a glorified taxi cab (yes, that's what it truly is, whoever got offended by the term a few pages ago) running gurneyvan and wheelchair van calls.
Also, stop with the Armenian mob jokes, they're offensive and only four of my cuzzo's own IFT companies. (and they're hiring too if you need work, aper.)
Sorry if any of this was convoluted or awkward to read/understand. English is my second language and I read/write at like a 2nd grader level (which is why I'm the perfect LACoFD candidate :b)
but thank you for that. Logisticare said it will look at their contract as it's not their only complaint also. When we used to talk to the drivers, they were the ones who opened up to us about the real problems there. It was pretty funny seeing 2 ex-employees there so much happier at my family member's new transport provider. Here is my one warning to anybody applying: Don't work there.
