Does anyone else hate pretty much everyone else in your job field? I'm back in school now but in the year I was working at a full time job, basically every other engineer was a chud who absolutely refused to consider other people and were only doing engineering because they got paid a lot. I know it's good to get to know everyone you work with and build solidarity but it's basically impossible when they're all so insufferable.
How do all of you deal with it?
EMTs are criminally underpaid, at least here in CA they are, especially for a specialized, trained field in an industry that makes hand over fist in money
We're underpaid everywhere.
The hospital I work for took the opportunity to redo the stencils on all of our ambulances to say 'heroes work here!'
But they also told us we can only have a new N95 mask once every two weeks and only if we turn in a sufficiently soiled or damaged old one. If it looks too neat and clean, they'll tell us to keep using it. So now we just make sure we smear some dirt on it or step on it a few times before we turn it in. Right at the very start of the pandemic, there was a $500 bonus as hazard pay but only if you worked so many hours over the last month. We know the hospital makes all kinds of money, but anyone who thinks we'll see any of that is fucking bonkers.
Edit: And if you lost your N95, you'll get raked over the coals for trying to "steal" an extra.
God I hate it here. Wtf is the point of PPE if you have to keep reusing it over and over like that?? Like seriously, there is a reason they are meant to be disposable. That is so frustrating to hear but also unsurprising