The (un)offical I'm stuck at work on Christmas thread

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How's your company/agency treating you this year for Christmas?

I'm on the 24 hour car and they're letting us post at station all day and buying us dinner :beerchug:
 
I just got off a 36 hour on-call shift that I spent more time at the station than at my apartment, now I'm on a 12 hour duty shift, followed by 24 more of on-call and 12 more of duty. It sucks being the only single person without kids at my service.

As for today... One of the service's members invited me and my partner to his place for xmas dinner
 
I'm working dispatch for 16 hours today. Off at 11pm & absolutely nothing.


Was hoping I could talk one of the fire departments in bringing us up some Christmas dinner, since I don't have any family here... I'll keep my fingers crossed. If not, then I will be chowing down on a hot pocket. LOL
 
I'm on day 2 of the Christmas 48. Yesterday, the BLS crew made pulled pork and rice with cherry pie for desert. Today the duty crew is baking a couple of hams and roasting potatoes. Where I am working today, medics only run ALS IFT, so it's been pretty slow. Only three calls yesterday. Now, I'm having breakfast with my girlfriend and her kids.
 
Mmmm hot pocket, I'm watching movies at station, hoping no one wants to go to the hospital unless they really need it.
 
My partner and I are the only ones in town and neither of us work where our family is so we're both hoping for a nice day to catch up on sleep (in my partners case) and reading (in mine). And after lunch we're going to head over to the seniors centre to visit and spread some Christmas spirit to those who don't have family to spend the day with. I can honestly say that I LOVE working Christmas!

But for now I am curling up on the couch with a new book (and no it is not a text book) and a cup of tea, exactly how I like to spend my Christmas morning.
 
Working 24 hours... We are based out of a fire station so were invited to a FF's house for brunch, thankfully since nothingis open! Food was good, now selting down at the station to watcha movie!

Happy
 
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I worked a 24 yesterday, so I technically worked 7 hours of Christmas (and got the 'holiday pay' to prove it!:P)
 
Well, I'm not working today, but if you are, my family and I just said a small prayer for you. Thanks to all of you that are covering today. Be safe please! And Merry Christmas.
 
Worked yesterday and today.
Yesterday sucked. One medical VSA and one messy traumatic arrest in the hospital parking lot. (long story) Almost booked off after the last arrest, but chilling in the reporting room at the hospital with everybody helped and a quick phone chat with our CISM guy and Christmas eve with my wife got my back into work today.

Today's been great. My partner and I arranged to do breakfast. I brought in a griddle and we did bacon, eggs, toast juice and coffee. Watched "Meet the Fockers" and some other random TV. Hung out with one of our SRU guys who decided to post in the north for awhile. And then around 1100 on of our medics who lives across from the base surprised us with a second breakfast. She brought over eggs benedict and perogies for the three of us.

We had almost six hours of down time before we got an non emerg call for generally unwell lymphoma Pt. Now back at bash, three hours to go and the peak truck has booked on so we're second up.

Life is good.
 
How's everyone's shifts been? I've had 4 calls so far... 1 transport to the city and 3 refusals. But the transfer jsut made the day seem ungodly long... Still 2 more hours left till I go back on-call
 
I alas am stuck at work too. I'm a volly EMT but I'm stuck working my paid job (Line service technician at an airport.) 3 other people from my volly squad are working with me today, all of us wishing we weren't.
 
I've only had one call in 6 hours. One of our dispatches cooked an entire homemade Christmas dinner for us. Now I'm sitting in the crew room watching some basketball, and thinking about taking my belt out a notch after all that food.

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Slow slow slow here. Not a single call and we're the only crew on. I'm hoping it stays this way until after 11 tonight. Would love to run a couple calls and get paid out.
 
Been on-call all day. One diabetic problem. On until 0500 tomorrow. Enjoying a delicious christmas dinner with the family right now then spending the rest of the night back at the station watching movies.
 
On shift today at my Fire job, 24hr. Caught a warehouse fire right as Christmas lunch/early dinner was going to be ready... Figures. Lol at least it was a nice worker!
 
On a 24 hour shift here. One call so far, suspected meningococcal encephalitis. Was exciting until I realized there wasn't much I could do for the patient. Then our transmission crapped out, and the reserve truck we got into had an empty main oxygen tank. The winch we use to swap out tanks was broken, and someone had also knotted the webbing/ratchet system that secures the oxygen tank to the ambulance, so we had to undo all the knots and change the (6 foot tall, 200lbs+) tanks by hand which sucked. We're at a joint-use EMS/fire station and ate with fire for lunch, probably will for dinner, too.
 
Only 2 calls so far. Did an epigastric pain r/o Cholecystitis at 2 this morning and a possible CVA about an hour ago. Other than that, I've been alternating between napping and watching "a Christmas story" and mythbusters. We just ate a big dinner of ham, smashed potatoes and all the fixin's and now everyone is relaxing like fat cats on the couch in the crew lounge.
 
I'm glad I wasn't driving... we managed to get into an MVC with our backup unit...
 
jtpaintball70 said:
I'm glad I wasn't driving... we managed to get into an MVC with our backup unit...
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Everyone okay?


Just played a round of tennis with balled up paper and bottles of Clorox. Yeah, we were a little bored :P
 
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