Do You Let Students Buy You Stuff?

When in my internship in medic school, our instructors told us to bring doughnuts for the station. On our last shift, our school brought shrimp and we brought steaks for everyone as a thank you.



As a working medic, I've had students ask if I want anything from the gas station / fast food, but I always deny. Not because they're students, but honestly, I deny everyone. Call it an ego thing.



Back in highschool one of my old girlfriends and I always went to the movies... she'd refuse to leave the car until I agreed to let her pay for SOMETHING... so popcorn it was. :rolleyes:
 
Interesting outlooks. Its different on each shift where I'm at, but on mine we do a shift dinner both nights and students don't pay for anything. Thats the way my preceptors treated me and I'm passing it down. I figure these poor :censored::censored::censored::censored::censored::censored::censored:s are struggling through a fairly hardcore internship, fighting to pay bills half the time, anything I can do to help out is great. I'm not so far removed from that period of time that I've forgotten what it was like.

So to hit the original question, no.
 
Linuss said:
When in my internship in medic school, our instructors told us to bring doughnuts for the station. On our last shift, our school brought shrimp and we brought steaks for everyone as a thank you.



As a working medic, I've had students ask if I want anything from the gas station / fast food, but I always deny. Not because they're students, but honestly, I deny everyone. Call it an ego thing.



Back in highschool one of my old girlfriends and I always went to the movies... she'd refuse to leave the car until I agreed to let her pay for SOMETHING... so popcorn it was. :rolleyes:
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I always feel uncomfortable accepting thongs as well
 
I read my post like 20 times thinking I was the one that wrote "thongs" and that you were making fun of me. I was going crazy trying to find it. :P
 
Linuss said:
I read my post like 20 times thinking I was the one that wrote "thongs" and that you were making fun of me. I was going crazy trying to find it. :P
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Lol I did the same thing :p
 
Now that education of Ambulance Officers have shifted from vocational training to higher education we now get external students in for placements, but it is uncommon and unexpected of them to buy stuff.

We generally (read: nearly always) go back to on station for our lunch break so most people bring food from home. Everybody here works on the same watch cycle so a lot of people put in $5 once a week or something and cook up a big shared feed, this is very common (moreso) in the Fire Service.

Remembering of course that we have mandated breaks both by law and as part of our unions Collective Employment Agreement so its not really up to somebody else to provide for what is part of a normal working day here.
 
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