tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026214128770026952.post7686535991291958868..comments2023-12-19T22:53:18.256-08:00Comments on the Happy Medic: My 5 hour dayThe Happy Medichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521335229435386281noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026214128770026952.post-62678243187341858822009-10-14T12:13:32.306-07:002009-10-14T12:13:32.306-07:00John,
Good point. 24s are part cultural and part ...John,<br />Good point. 24s are part cultural and part political I think. it falls in line with meal breaks. If you take me off the clock for lunch, I don't respond. Keep me on the clock, you have to pay me. Same thing for night coverage. It works in some areas for career personnel to remain on duty 24 hours, others have excellent coverage with volunteers. <br />Like the others said, I sometimes do get paid to sleep. Other times I get paid to stay up all night chasing the homeless around my City.The Happy Medichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11521335229435386281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026214128770026952.post-63701405709516289262009-10-14T11:28:31.691-07:002009-10-14T11:28:31.691-07:00On the sleeping issue-The complainers never take i...On the sleeping issue-The complainers never take into account that, in our case, we work 56 hours/week, with only 3 of it being OT-not 16. Or that the reason we were exempted from OT for those hours was to save the city money on overnight coverage. 24s are something we adapted to because the employer used them to save money. If they are so great why doesn't everyone work that way?Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17901531311414516936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026214128770026952.post-54860212375493361512009-10-14T11:06:49.314-07:002009-10-14T11:06:49.314-07:00Sometimes I get paid to sleep and sometimes I get ...Sometimes I get paid to sleep and sometimes I get paid to police up rotting corpses from the Potomac River. It's a fair trade, i think.<br /><br />Best,<br /><br />WF&DTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026214128770026952.post-44356472469106879452009-10-14T10:23:26.941-07:002009-10-14T10:23:26.941-07:00I can remember days when I was lucky to spend a to...I can remember days when I was lucky to spend a total of 2 hours in bed (over 3-4 trys of sleeping between runs)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026214128770026952.post-58110992173143405112009-10-14T08:00:30.158-07:002009-10-14T08:00:30.158-07:00The "you guys get paid for sleeping"
com...The "you guys get paid for sleeping"<br />comments burn my ass. True, if you enter my firehouse after lunchtime you will probably find most of the crew snoring loudly in recliners. That is because when you're asleep in your bed at 3 in the morning we may be (a) wiping some form of bodily emission/fluid off a patient while performing CPR........or (b)crawling down a hallway, wearing 70 lbs of gear in high heat, zero visibility searching for a "reported" entrapped person.........or (c) etc. etc. etc. adnauseum infinitum.<br />Or on rare occasions I might be asleep too !<br />DaveOAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com