Wtf is wrong with people.

So it's been a while since I've had the inspiration to write a blog. Well this morning at work has brought that to me.
So while I'm doing my morning routine of checking out my ambulance. I notice a new medic who has worked here as a basic emt for several years. Well when I see him come downstairs its 745 am. The shift starts at 0700, I understand he went to the other garage but he even showed up there 15 mins late and when he showed here he decided to BS for 15 mins. Who do you think you are newbie get in the truck and check it out. Now this isn't the first rodeo for this cowboy attempting to become a paramedic with the company. Apparently his attitude was a deciding factor in him not making it. Well I see it hasn't changed.
When I first started my field internship I was kissing the paramedics asses. I knew all of them but i was the student so I had to act like i was just that a student. So finally when i became a paramedic i would have never acted the way these newbs act nowadays. I knew my job was to learn everything and to question what I didn't know. Now they just come in acting like they're gods gift to EMS. Show some respect to the job and the person(s) who is training you. The attitude from the ones who get promoted is even worse. "Why do i have to do that?" " I already know that from BLS". You know what, just shut up and learn. You are the new medic so stop acting like you've been doing this long. This lack of respect is aggravating towards ones who have earned what little respect they deserve.
I'm so glad I'm not an FTO because I'm not sure i could handle dealing with these "self entitled" folks.

Oh and on a final note. Tie your damn boots. Show some respect to the job you newb.

Sports rant #2

Not sure why I waited until today to make my opinion heard on the Bruins game, but anyway here it is.

So I wasn't fortunate enough to get to watch the game Saturday because I was working in the ambulance. I did listen to game so I had to watch all the controversy after the fact.
#1. So it's okay to spear somebody in the throat and then when Thorton defends himself he gets ganged up on 6-1. Yet the Bruins lose Lucic for the game because the refs made a call that they couldn't see. Yeah seems fair. Apparently the 3rd man in penalty just didn't seem warranted when there's 6 men. The refs must have thought since the rule says 3 then that's what they meant. The refs really sucked Saturday.
#2. Yes the hit from Marchand was dirty and uncalled for. He's done it before and has been penalized for it in the past. HOWEVER, for the bitches known as the Canucks need to watch their own house before throwing stones. Alain Vinault is going to call his players angels. He might want to watch the same stuff everyone else is.
His own players did the same play that Marchand did to the Bruins TWICE in the SCF.
He can take his crying and shove it. I'm sick of the NHL always placating to the canadian teams. They're part of the same league as everyone else. As for Bruins fans that think that Marchand shouldn't have been suspended, they need to stop thinking that everything that the home team does is gold. He screwed up and needs to pay. Do I think he warranted a 5 game suspension? Not at all. Welcome to the new NHL I guess.

Well hopefully the next blog will be about something paramedic related. We shall see.

Time for a change..... Maybe?

Today is not a regular shift for me. I somehow managed to pick 12 hours on a 911 truck. Doesn't happen very often. Yet all I see around me is change today. Things seem bleak around the company. Multiple different reasons which I will not get into on here. I know in my own personal heart that I still like working here. Yet my mind is telling me that maybe I should keep my options open. Now I know that there's a couple of services I will not work for, so let's make that clear to my lovely bride whenever she reads this. I could stay in this area for other services but nothing is on par. I could go up north and most likely get on one maybe even two 911 trucks, but then there's the commute, and pay and benefits to think of. Yet on the other hand I could be doing what I really want to do. Yet starting all over isn't all it's cracked up to be. So maybe I should change professions. I guess I'm still young enough to do it, yet having done this for over 10 years I'm set in my ways. Now this decision isn't just about me anymore. Now I have a wife and our future to think of. This isn't going to be easy, but eventually I need to figure something out. So I am going to go back to the truck and wait for my partner to finish up the report from this last run.

New Year and New Beginnings.... Hopefully.

Back to the grind today after a whole 36 hrs off. In this field 36 hours can be a long time. Today is also day 1 of my wife and I both doing weight watchers. That in itself ought to be interesting. I never really had many self esteem issues. Well maybe when I got older anyway. I know I'm a big guy, but I learned to live with it. Now that I'm married and hoping for some children someday maybe it's time to make some changes to my lifestyle. One would think that maybe doing the job I do that it would have been motivation enough to try and lose weight. However anyone that knows this field knows that when we work we work but there's a lot of down time and unfortunately more fast food than you'd like. I want to be able to do this job for as long as I can and this change could help that. I also want to be able to run around with my kids and have a good life. So maybe 2012 will be the year I actually get to my goal(s). Only time will tell.