countryboy1871
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I have been working at my department for almost 5 years but I have been questioning if I'm in the right career for a while now. I can't tell if I hate my job or if I just hate my department (Fire/Ems). My department has been described as "toxic and broken" by coworkers and a Chaplin. Things really started to go down hill about 3 years ago. I was working with a person at the department for a entire month and 3 patients, 2 family members and a cop all filled complaints against them in the same month. Since I was their partner naturally I was to blame for them going and filling reports, and honestly I probably should have filed complaints to because they were all justified. They got a slap on the wrist and that was it but because I was the partner I have had a target on my back ever since.
At first I shrugged it off but its been 3 years and I have talked to my chief multiple times and I am still forced to work with them at least twice a month. Last month I was checking my half of the trucks and I emptied a ice cooler on the truck. This was a cooler on the truck I was supposed to be checking. I was not told that they had already emptied that cooler and next thing I know we are moments away from almost getting in a fist fight over ice....our ice machine makes over 300 lbs a day. After his they toss multiple bucks on the floor while yelling as loud as they can about nothing. They then step out back and they can still be heard yelling through the concrete wall. The chief asks me what is going on...I tell him and all he does is go and sit in his office.
On days when I work with the one person I actually like working with I still find myself not wanting to go to work. We are in a small town and cover half the county, and if are not on a 6 hour transfer, getting a 911 call from the hospital because they don't know how to tube a patient or they don't have a OB kit and they're not sure if they can deliver this baby in the hospital so they call for a ambulance, we are probably at the station doing our own duties. We have also been short handed for over a year and its not uncommon (like this month) were I only have 6 days off and we work 24 hour shifts followed by 24 hours of being on unpaid call. We are only paid if we are called in.
No one talks to anyone from work outside of work. I remember when I first started I wanted to have a small BBQ and get to know the people I would be working with, I couldn't even get the people on duty to stop by. I know that I need to leave this department but I'm starting to wonder if I should just find another career.
At first I shrugged it off but its been 3 years and I have talked to my chief multiple times and I am still forced to work with them at least twice a month. Last month I was checking my half of the trucks and I emptied a ice cooler on the truck. This was a cooler on the truck I was supposed to be checking. I was not told that they had already emptied that cooler and next thing I know we are moments away from almost getting in a fist fight over ice....our ice machine makes over 300 lbs a day. After his they toss multiple bucks on the floor while yelling as loud as they can about nothing. They then step out back and they can still be heard yelling through the concrete wall. The chief asks me what is going on...I tell him and all he does is go and sit in his office.
On days when I work with the one person I actually like working with I still find myself not wanting to go to work. We are in a small town and cover half the county, and if are not on a 6 hour transfer, getting a 911 call from the hospital because they don't know how to tube a patient or they don't have a OB kit and they're not sure if they can deliver this baby in the hospital so they call for a ambulance, we are probably at the station doing our own duties. We have also been short handed for over a year and its not uncommon (like this month) were I only have 6 days off and we work 24 hour shifts followed by 24 hours of being on unpaid call. We are only paid if we are called in.
No one talks to anyone from work outside of work. I remember when I first started I wanted to have a small BBQ and get to know the people I would be working with, I couldn't even get the people on duty to stop by. I know that I need to leave this department but I'm starting to wonder if I should just find another career.
