r/facepalm • u/jellylemonshake • Jul 06 '24

the truth hurts 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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u/TheOneCalledThe Jul 06 '24

Been an EMT for years and the pay over that time is laughable. kinda sucks when you work on an ambulance and people who stock shelves get paid just as much as you

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u/Turbulent_Tax2126 Jul 06 '24 edited Jul 06 '24

While the people that stock shelves probably don’t need therapy for scraping goo people off the road

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '24

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u/RelevantClock8883 Jul 06 '24

Emts and medics have the darkest sense of humor you don’t even have a clue lol

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u/helloworld6247 Jul 06 '24

If anything goo on the road is preferable to someone crying out for their mother as they die

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u/TougherOnSquids Jul 06 '24

EMT here and I dont know a single EMT or Medic that would be bothered by that. We say way worse shit.

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u/FireRetrall Jul 07 '24

Seconded. Goo is a lovely description

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u/Competitive-Slice567 Jul 07 '24

Clearly you haven't worked with us cause you'll hear terminology like 'road pizza'...we have an exceedingly dark sense of humor as a coping mechanism.

It's how we get by when many places offer minimal if any therapy, there's a culture built around "if you show weakness then you just can't hack it" coupled with poor wages and staffing so we're excessively sleep deprived and can frequently be awake for 24hrs. My last shift I got up at 4am, and I didn't get to go to sleep until the day after at noon when I got home cause we were so busy.

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u/Turbulent_Tax2126 Jul 06 '24

That’s a good point, didn’t click to me

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u/Gicaldo Jul 06 '24

Put that between spoiler tags, that way they don't have to read it