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Category Archives: Soapbox
The hubris of youth
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
Loading ...I was at some talk, and at some point, it was said that there is no logical correlation between years of experience and confidence in skill. That roughly translated, in my head, to “cocky new people.” To someone like me, … Continue reading
Dear re-cert instructors
(7 votes, average: 4.57 out of 5) Loading ...I will happily listen to you prattle on and on about the updates on the ever-changing guidelines, but please don’t use your 9 months of experience to question how I manage patients or insinuate that I’m doing things wrong. And … Continue reading
Joe Paterno
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...I’m trying not to pass judgment, but for some perspective, if you and I so much as smelled a dick* near a kid while working and didn’t say anything, we’d be in so much fucking trouble it would actually make … Continue reading
That was not the correct response
(6 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Dear employees, If you are already a well-known dipshit, and you have genuine work-related performance deficiencies that have been observed by different objective parties, especially in a profession that actually has a thing or two to do with life and … Continue reading
I don’t work for management
(4 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Funny little nuance about emergency services – we don’t literally work directly for the people who are nominally our employers, whether it’s a city/county/state government department/agency or a private company or whatever. Instead, we work for the people who call … Continue reading
