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Lol, does AMR really offer temp gigs for festivals these days?

There are a dozen things I would like to do at a Coachella type event, none of which include working a stand by in a tent or on a golf cart. Good to know though, I miss AMR from time to time for various reasons
 
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VentMonkey said:
Lol, does AMR really offer temp gigs for festivals these days?

There are a dozen things I would like to do at a Coachella type event, none of which include working a stand by in a tent or on a golf cart. Good to know though, I miss AMR from time to time for various reasons
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Probably cheaper than paying OT for their current employees.
 
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Drat. No Cali card. It would be amusing to use my leave from here to go be at a festival and be paid for it. Even if it was Californistan.
 
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VentMonkey said:
Lol, does AMR really offer temp gigs for festivals these days?

There are a dozen things I would like to do at a Coachella type event, none of which include working a stand by in a tent or on a golf cart. Good to know though, I miss AMR from time to time for various reasons
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It is such a huge amount of employees that are needed for the events. We use employees from our division who volunteer for it and employees from 2 other divisions to staff it. In addition to it we still have to hire 20-35 temp EMTs to full staff the event. For Coachella we had something like 14 foot patrols staffed B/B, ~5 BLS tents staffed B/B/B, shuttle carts staffed B/B usually, ~8 ALS carts staffed M/B, and our main tents who have at least 2 Basics in them.

The temp positions are for data entry personnel and EMTs. Medics are all employed with AMR. The nurses are all AMR CCT nurses. And the doctors are all contracted out.
 
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I attended a Coachella festival many years ago, and don't recall seeing their workforce this present at the event aside from the occasional golf cart crew, and a (then) CDF fire engine.

Has the staffing always been this prevalent, or is it something that's grown over the years along with the festival?

Either way, that's impressive.
 
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VentMonkey said:
I attended a Coachella festival many years ago, and don't recall seeing their workforce this present at the event aside from the occasional golf cart crew, and a (then) CDF fire engine.

Has the staffing always been this prevalent, or is it something that's grown over the years along with the festival?

Either way, that's impressive.
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It's grown over the years.
 
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VentMonkey said:
I attended a Coachella festival many years ago, and don't recall seeing their workforce this present at the event aside from the occasional golf cart crew, and a (then) CDF fire engine.

Has the staffing always been this prevalent, or is it something that's grown over the years along with the festival?

Either way, that's impressive.
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At first the contract was held by Symons Event Safety. There were a lot of issues with it so AMR took over the contract (I don't know how many years AMR has had it now). Each year the attendance goes up so we require more staff. Desert Trip is 75k-80k attendees not including the support staff/security/etc. Coachella next year is looking to be around 125k attendees.
 
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Interesting. Yeah, when I attended it was already AMR. Lol, I haven't heard Symons Ambulance in quite some time; our old scheduler used to be some sorta manager for that place.

I believe Coachella was only a 3-day weekend event, and was held in June. Last I checked it's been extended to a week? And the month moved up if I am not mistaken. This is probably for the best. It was a sweltering inferno.

Either way, it doesn't sound like an event that a company the size of Symons would be able to handle for very long.

Side note: I looked up the Desert Trip festival and it looks like it has a pretty sweet line up.
 
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VentMonkey said:
Interesting. Yeah, when I attended it was already AMR. Lol, I haven't heard Symons Ambulance in quite some time; our old scheduler used to be some sorta manager for that place.

I believe Coachella was only a 3-day weekend event, and was held in June. Last I checked it's been extended to a week? And the month moved up if I am not mistaken. This is probably for the best. It was a sweltering inferno.

Either way, it doesn't sound like an event that a company the size of Symons would be able to handle for very long.

Side note: I looked up the Desert Trip festival and it looks like it has a pretty sweet line up.
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The Coachella event has been a total of 6 days for several years now.
 
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Just got this book in today. Can't wait to dive in. Also pretty cool my program is on the cover.:cool:

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Chase said:
Just got this book in today. Can't wait to dive in. Also pretty cool my program is on the cover.:cool:

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I am pretty sure this is the book my phase 4 preceptor has. I flipped to a random page and was already seeing stuff I had never heard of.
 
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Chase said:
Just got this book in today. Can't wait to dive in. Also pretty cool my program is on the cover.:cool:

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We used this book for the Creighton CCP course. Dry at times in my opinion, but also full of solid critical care material.
 
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DesertMedic66 said:
It is such a huge amount of employees that are needed for the events. We use employees from our division who volunteer for it and employees from 2 other divisions to staff it. In addition to it we still have to hire 20-35 temp EMTs to full staff the event. For Coachella we had something like 14 foot patrols staffed B/B, ~5 BLS tents staffed B/B/B, shuttle carts staffed B/B usually, ~8 ALS carts staffed M/B, and our main tents who have at least 2 Basics in them.

The temp positions are for data entry personnel and EMTs. Medics are all employed with AMR. The nurses are all AMR CCT nurses. And the doctors are all contracted out.
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HMM....I wondering if I would have to take time off from work up here to work down there???
 
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You forgot test day. Written test and a skills test.
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Grrr...darn, don't think I have enough PTO to cover that. Wish I could just transferred there for those days.
 
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