Get your foot in the door for experience, but find better opportunities.
Pros
Im of course grateful for the opportunity, I loved the coworkers. Handful of emergent calls where you could actually use your skills. That’s about it.
Cons
To start, parking on the street where there’s a sliver of dirt and in some spots half your car is poking into the street. Uniforms, you get one used top and one used bottom, a very warn belt and hope for the best. Sure it’s a IFT company but never the less you’ll get dirty every shift. Rigs, some very nice and new ones, some very old and need replacing. One of them, the house radio to contact hospitals flat out never worked, after mentioning it over the span of a few weeks, it never got fixed. Management, nothing in the world matters, as long as the boss is happy. It’s a family owned business and the only thing on their minds is money, not the employees. At least it’s what they portrayed it out to be. Thats how it was the entire time. If you don’t take a certain route, you get a phone call. If you’re stuck at a hospital which is almost guaranteed, you not only get dispatch calling you but as-well as a supervisor and the boss. If you get the chance to be at station and you turn on the tv in the middle of the day, you’ll get talked to. If you upgrade a call due to severity of the patient, you’ll get a mean earful from the boss questioning your every move when he’s sitting at station. Management does not listen when there’s a safety concern for another employee and ignored multiple emails from multiple people instead of assessing the situation the first time it is brought up. Also, get ready to finish your shift at 2200 and come in the next day at 0300. Ridiculous.