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FireHawk918

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Idk how your service is but I work for the service in my city as a truck stocker, I saw it as a way to get my foot in the door. The EMTs and Medics all know I'm studying for my NREMT and they are cool with me, they treat me like one of their own, I hear the stories from the streets and all that. But the guys in materials who are not seeking to become EMTs get treated like crap by the crews. I was just wondering why that is, and have you noticed anything like that in your system.
 
I'll give you my observations:

While we don't have truck stockers, we have many support personnel. There are a handful of persons who treat them like crap. I attribute it to an inferiority complex among those providers, which manifests itself as a superiority complex over anyone they think is beneath them. It's by no means all providers I work with, but I also find it spreads rapidly when we have personnel together and they succumb to peer pressure.
 
That is what I've been thinking. I think the only reason they are nice to me is because I do aspire to become an EMT. It bothers me because the support staff makes their job easier. All I know is if/when I become an EMT I will not treat them like crap.
 
The best friends you can make is the support people.

The next run where you are headed back to quarters at 0230 bring your dispatcher some coffee. Suddenly the next night some other crew gets dispatched for the 85 y/o male with a heavy rectal bleed.
 
Our field crews and VSTs work really well together. Some of them are less than stellar at their job and it's frustrating to deal with missing items. Other than that I haven't really noticed what you're talking about.
 
Rob that's good to know. I think we need to do some team building here lol.
 
Don't get me wrong there are field crews that don't like the VSTs and there are VSTs that don't like the field crews. That's not the majority though.

Like I said it can get really frustrating when stuff is missing from the truck. We are held accountable for our actions where is the accountability for the supply folks? I'm sure someone will preach to me about checking my truck in the AM. We use a speed loading system, it's impossible to go through every bin without making supply real angry since now they have to go back through and recount every item in every bin that you popped "just to make sure".
 
retardedness exist at any level to some

Your gonna be treated like crap even in the field, I've worked with medics and emt's that were burnt out or that are plane :censored::censored::censored::censored::censored::censored::censored:s, I always try to keep an up beat friendly personality and am respectful to all, but there some that just don't care, some giving us bad names, some that raises questions to whether ems is a profession or a joke.
 
We have logistics technicians who handle Preventative maintenance of equipment, stocking Pyxis and other duties. Our trucks go up to headquarters quarterly (soon to be every six weeks) for standardization. Trucks gets a "hyper" deep clean and everything gets taken out inventoried and replaced. Our logistics techs are good guys I just wish their department would fill our supply orders as we submit them not based on what someone seems to think we actually need.
 
Our overnight crews stock the trucks when they get on. People whine about how they do a crappy job, but it's the same people that don't leave an equipment request form after they use supplies. The crew using the truck is responsible for it in its entirety so I hate hearing that so and so didn't stock it right.

Incidentally I'm tossing our truck now since the overnight crew is too busy to do that, boy oh boy this one needs some work.
 
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