One of my old partners got pulled in for an investigation today. The photo is not of him – it’s of a paramedic in California trying to eat something for the first time in nearly ten hours.
My old partner was told that a member of the public took photos of him and his current partner. My buddy was sleeping, and his partner was eating. This member of the public sent the photos with an email that both complained about how “unprofessional” it appeared – and a threat to send the photos to the media.
Thanks to Prop 11 in California, first responders no longer have a right to breaks. AMR lied to the public in a huge way. California was the only state where emergency crews had been granted a legal right to breaks to use the latrine and have a meal. Shifts run a minimum of 12 hours, often 24, and AMR runs their crews into the ground.
My buddy and his partner are in trouble because they were trying to get rest and food while posted on a street corner because we don’t get breaks. This is what AMR tells us to do. Please don’t see something like this and assume that we’re being lazy or not doing our jobs. Don’t take photos or send them to the press. That crew is probably exhausted and overworked.
Not to mention they hold us 911 coverage units over regularly “for just one last transfer call that will be really quick.” When there are plenty of transfer only units posted at hospitals doing nothing at the beginning of their shifts. It also tanks our levels and leaves a lot of the city uncovered for emergency calls.
2018 Grinch has no edge. He’s got no bite. He’s not even that much of an asshole. He’s just a sassy gay furry with unusually nice teeth despite his famous theme song declaring otherwise.
1966 Grinch? Now that was a mean, scary bastard. He was a crusty old fuck who hated society so much that he only came off his shitty frozen mountain to commit crimes and terrorism out of spite.
Bennyhoo Cumberland Grinch comes down from his mountain to buy groceries.
You can round the edges off a character to make them more “relatable” or whatever, but you also run the risk of losing what defined them in the first place. The end result is bland and generic.
2018 Grinch is a reflection of modern society’s rejection of real character flaws in the interest of being “unproblematic” and in this essay i will
congrats OP this is literally the only grinch post i’ll ever reblog
I honestly do not understand how seeing an emergency crew member or other medical professional eating or taking a break is somehow “unprofessional”. How the hell is it unprofessional to be human??? Maybe it’s just my experience in emergency services training in CAP or having a paramedic for a grandfather, so I’m more or less used to it, but like…seeing someone, in uniform, taking a break, resting, or eating never bothered me. It was just another person doing their thing before working again, no different from any other worker in any other profession.
You have to be a special level of spiteful and in need of a power trip to photograph an overworked personnel eating because it offended you so much. Get a grip.
@owlstorm yeah this is in response to something I reblogged earlier. In CA emergency workers (EMTs/paramedics I think?) are no longer allowed to have breaks to rest and eat, and they work EXTREMELY long shifts. A couple of workers were photographed by a stranger when they were “caught” eating and sleeping and the person complained that it was “unprofessional” of them to do so. They are now in trouble and all because people have this incessant need to be spiteful and demanding.
BRISTOL, Wis. —A Wisconsin mother said school administrators failed to call 911 after her 9-year-old son was attacked by another student with a razor blade.
In an exclusive interview, Anna Hawrylak told WISN her fourth-grader was standing in line waiting to go into class in September at Bristol Elementary School when another student attacked him with a razor blade.
The gash on the back of his forearm, under his elbow, was deep enough to require seven stitches. However, she said the school never conveyed how serious the situation was and let her son bleed in the nurse’s office for 45 minutes before his dad could get there and take him to a hospital.
“They really didn’t tell me anything that happened in the message,” Hawrylak said. “They said, ‘He has a cut that will probably need to be looked at,’ and that was the extent of the message.”
“A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.” — G.K. Chesterton
The Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life.”
The inexhaustible richness of this sacrament is expressed in the different names we give it. Each name evokes certain aspects of it.
It is called:
Eucharist, because it is an action of thanksgiving to God. The Greek words eucharistein and eulogein recall the Jewish blessings that proclaim – especially during a meal – God’s works: creation, redemption, and sanctification.
The Lord’s Supper, because of its connection with the supper which the Lord took with his disciples on the eve of his Passion and because it anticipates the wedding feast of the Lamb in the heavenly Jerusalem.
The Breaking of Bread, because Jesus used this rite, part of a Jewish meat when as master of the table he blessed and distributed the bread, above all at the Last Supper. It is by this action that his disciples will recognize him after his Resurrection, and it is this expression that the first Christians will use to designate their Eucharistic assemblies; by doing so they signified that all who eat the one broken bread, Christ, enter into communion with him and form but one body in him.
TheEucharistic assembly (synaxis), because the Eucharist is celebrated amid the assembly of the faithful, the visible expression of the Church.
The memorial of the Lord’s Passion and Resurrection.
The Holy Sacrifice, because it makes present the one sacrifice of Christ the Savior and includes the Church’s offering. The terms holy sacrifice of the Mass, “sacrifice of praise,” spiritual sacrifice, pure and holy sacrifice are also used, since it completes and surpasses all the sacrifices of the Old Covenant.
The Holy and Divine Liturgy, because the Church’s whole liturgy finds its center and most intense expression in the celebration of this sacrament; in the same sense we also call its celebration the Sacred Mysteries. We speak of the Most Blessed Sacrament because it is the Sacrament of sacraments. The Eucharistic species reserved in the tabernacle are designated by this same name.
Holy Communion, because by this sacrament we unite ourselves to Christ, who makes us sharers in his Body and Blood to form a single body. We also call it: the holy things (ta hagia; sancta) – the first meaning of the phrase “communion of saints” in the Apostles’ Creed – the bread of angels, bread from heaven, medicine of immortality, viaticum… .
Holy Mass (Missa), because the liturgy in which the mystery of salvation is accomplished concludes with the sending forth (missio) of the faithful, so that they may fulfill God’s will in their daily lives.
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