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Partner went home sick. Now I'm partnerless sitting in the garage waiting for someone to show up to work with me. Not holding my breath or really hoping that someone does for that matter. I'll gladly sit here and do jack :censored::censored::censored::censored: nothing all night and get paid for it.
 
NVRob said:
Partner went home sick. Now I'm partnerless sitting in the garage waiting for someone to show up to work with me. Not holding my breath or really hoping that someone does for that matter. I'll gladly sit here and do jack :censored::censored::censored::censored: nothing all night and get paid for it.
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Where I work if you don't have a partner, and can't keep busy, you go home. Without pay.

I Didn't have a partner for 2 months. I shredded paper, went and got lunch, I was the lift assist truck, I washed trucks. I detailed them. Organized cabinets.

Those were long 12 hour days.
 
Anjel said:
Where I work if you don't have a partner, and can't keep busy, you go home. Without pay.

I Didn't have a partner for 2 months. I shredded paper, went and got lunch, I was the lift assist truck, I washed trucks. I detailed them. Organized cabinets.

Those were long 12 hour days.
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For my company we are guaranteed hours. So the company has 1 of 2 choices. They can either send us home with pay or have us stay at the station.

Normally we are not sent home with pay. They will say "if you would like to go home you are more then welcome but you have to clock out".

Normally we just stay at the station and will do VST jobs (if needed). I'm friends with the mechanic so I will normally help him out in the shop or work on my truck in the shop.

Once I went to our 48 hour station (4 contract for a solar project) and spent 8 hours out there hanging with the crew.
 
If people continue to be doucheface, they might end up needed a max/fac surgeon ....

I may appear sweet and innocent but even I can get angry.
 
Clare said:
If people continue to be doucheface, they might end up needed a max/fac surgeon ....

I may appear sweet and innocent but even I can get angry.
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Aw, look how adorable she is thinking she can ... hey, what are you doing to my face? Stop it! Stop! it! Ahhhahahhhhahh! Stop it! Ahhahhahhhhhhh!!! That hurts! AaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhH!! My face! My face! Aahhhhh...............................................
 
Aprz said:
Aw, look how adorable she is thinking she can ... hey, what are you doing to my face? Stop it! Stop! it! Ahhhahahhhhahh! Stop it! Ahhahhahhhhhhh!!! That hurts! AaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhH!! My face! My face! Aahhhhh...............................................
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Nah I don't do "adorable" ... and I dno, I am one for efficiency, so maybe some potassium chloride on your food or something to cause a fatal arrhythmia :D

It just annoys me how um, whats the word, insincere some people are.
 
Clare said:
Nah I don't do "adorable" ... and I dno, I am one for efficiency, so maybe some potassium chloride on your food or something to cause a fatal arrhythmia :D
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Good luck with that. Works great IV but not so much orally. The amount you would have to put on someone's food would be totally noticeable, somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,500 mg. It would taste like :censored::censored::censored::censored:
 
Replace all the salt in their house with KCl... And maybe convincing them to start spironolactone...... :ph34r:
 
Clare said:
LOL, they drink seriously excessive amounts of alcohol; isn't alcohol a diuretic?
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Idk, is it? What does alcohol have to do with ADH? Sounds like a pimp question :rofl:
 
Anjel said:
Where I work if you don't have a partner, and can't keep busy, you go home. Without pay.

I Didn't have a partner for 2 months. I shredded paper, went and got lunch, I was the lift assist truck, I washed trucks. I detailed them. Organized cabinets.

Those were long 12 hour days.
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Not us, like firefite, we have mandatory hours we have to get each pay period so they have to keep us around or send us home on the clock, I've heard you can leave and use PTO but I'm saving that for a trip to Whistler in March. So I spent 4 hours sitting on a bench in the garage goofing around with my supervisor while "supervising" and heckling the VSTs cleaning and restocking ambulances :D Technically I was the "office car" and if we went level 0 (no available units) or status 6 (pending 911s) Myself and either my supervisor or one of the dispatchers (all are EMT-Is or Paramedics and most are field qualified) would hop in my ambulance and go out into the system until units came available then we'd go back to the garage. It'll be the same story tomorrow if they don't fill his shift and he calls in which seems like a strong possibility with the way he looked and the amount he puked hah.

I eventually found a partner at 0030, we went to a hard post, slept for 2 1/2 hours, got toned out for a "stabbing" that sounded really, really bad, with basically the whole world responding that ended up being a dude who got knocked over the head with a 40 of OE...then we got fuel and went home.

Chase said:
Idk, is it? What does alcohol have to do with ADH? Sounds like a pimp question :rofl:
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At what point? While they're intoxicated or while they're detoxing? :D

If I'm not mistaken it's supressed which is why you piss like a racehorse when you're drinking then is "stimulated" during detox which is why, despite popular belief, it isn't a good idea to run fluids wide open into chronic alcoholics because you can fluid overload them pretty easily. Also, have you ever noticed after a long night of drinking, no matter how much you drink the next day, you don't really urinate all that much?

Someone will explain it better than me I'm sure.
 
Chase said:
Idk, is it? What does alcohol have to do with ADH? Sounds like a pimp question :rofl:
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I think it is, I am not sure. I know alcohol is eh, something ..... it's late and I can't sleep; who knows any good bedtime stories?
 
So I finally get my authorization to schedule my NCLEX but there are not test dates until February unless I want to drive 2 hours to another testing site. So annoying
 
I would drive the 2 hours.

We have medics here that drive to Illinois to test, because its faster
 
Chase said:
So I finally get my authorization to schedule my NCLEX but there are not test dates until February unless I want to drive 2 hours to another testing site. So annoying
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Drive the 2 hours... Well worth it :)
 
Chase said:
So I finally get my authorization to schedule my NCLEX but there are not test dates until February unless I want to drive 2 hours to another testing site. So annoying
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What's two hours? I drove 3 for my test. Better to do it immediately than let it build up into some big thing.
 
Where I live testing is only offered in one place, and over 2-3 days.

I drove 3 hours to get there and paid for a hotel for the weekend. Lots of $$$, but not really any other choice. :sad:
 
Chase said:
So I finally get my authorization to schedule my NCLEX but there are not test dates until February unless I want to drive 2 hours to another testing site. So annoying
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I almost flew halfway across the country and stayed in a hotel for my MCAT as the closest one was 400 miles north in rural Maine for the date and time I wanted. Thankfully I found a seat opening 1.5 miles from my house later.
 
Speaking of no partner. I just got a page saying my shift had an opening tonight.

It's Friday night in the city. Someone should pick it up I hope.
 
Chase said:
Idk, is it? What does alcohol have to do with ADH? Sounds like a pimp question :rofl:
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Heh, tried Googling antidiuretic hormone and acetaldehyde cause I was thinking that maybe increase amount of acetaldehyde would inhibit the release of antidiuretic hormone... From what I recall, what's really poisonous to us (and also gives some Asians that red face cause of a lack of one type of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase enzyme, I think there are two types) is acetaldehyde. I don't know how the body knows, but I would figure it's a diuretic because the body is trying to excrete as much acetaldehyde as it can while at the same time acetaldehyde dehydrogenase converts acetaldehyde to acetate, and then acetyl-CoA where it's then used by the Kreb's cycle to make ATP. Anyhow! Googling that, it didn't say anything about antidiuretic hormone, but rather it probably automatically tried searching for "ADH" literally instead and ADH is alcohol dehydrogense, lol, which converts ethanol to acetaldehyde so maybe it's a trick question and while most people are thinking "What does alcohol have to do with antidiuretic hormone?" it's suppose to be "What does alcohol have to do with alcohol dehydrogenase?" I don't know, I am curious to find out if what I thought was correct about trying to void acetaldehyde, I'd like to know how the body knows about it, what makes the body want to void, and think it would be interesting if it was indeed a trick question.

Other things I can think of is I know alcohol is a coupling agent, protons start leaking around the proton pump, so to create more proton, more reactions happen, that increases temperature. To get rid of heat, the body dilates blood vessels, more fluid go to the kidney and get filtered out?

Those are things I am thinking right now. Probably way off and just sound cool to people who don't know what I am talking about.
 
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