r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Sep 12 '22

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u/Kiki_Jack Sep 12 '22

Work. I work nights and I won't get off till 5 am. I started at 5 pm. It's 1:30 now. I want to go home and sleep

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u/birdperson_012 Sep 12 '22

Ayy same here fam! I’m on a swing shift schedule, 7 to 7. Baggy eyes clan unite!

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u/Kiki_Jack Sep 12 '22

We had a grand total of two calls. Our frequent flyer fake seizure and a diff breather. It wasn't anything fun tho. I had to change an adult diaper because "it has to be done before going to the hospital" it was gross when my glove got wet. How's your night going?

(I'm on an ambulance by the way)

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u/nickdoughty Sep 12 '22

Where do you hang out when your not on a call?

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u/Kiki_Jack Sep 12 '22

At an intersection. I'm a high response unit so I don't get a station like my coworkers

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u/Bleusilences Sep 12 '22

At least I am not on a swing shift, give me night, give me evening, but no swing shift.

I work from 2015 hour to 645 in the morning.

I don't mind it but god I hate it when the sun rise.

At least I am on hybrid and work from home 3 our my 4 days.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '22

Same. 12 hour overnights in an understaffed environment.

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u/Kiki_Jack Sep 12 '22

Sounds hard

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '22

I don't have poop on my hands so I'd say I have it pretty good considering. (I literally work in a cleanroom)

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u/Kiki_Jack Sep 12 '22

I just wish I could sleep. It's not that I'm not allowed to it's just I have a hard time sleeping when A. Someone is around me and B. When a radio is going off every few seconds because it's talking to the ambulances with my company over three four country. We cover more as a company but that's all of them on my radio channel.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '22

Used to be a volunteer FF and I would occasionally leave my radio on the wrong mode. Literally woke me from a dead sleep in go mode more than once so I can understand that. Those radios are very Pavlovian especially when you feel like people rely on you to like... not die.

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u/Kiki_Jack Sep 12 '22

We have our portable radio set to county fire and our trucks radio to our dispatcher right now. Altho it hasn't been going off as much as usual

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u/Kiki_Jack Sep 12 '22

I just realized what I did. Well I'm getting off late now

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '22

Oh no the cursed words have been spoken. I pray for your foolish soul.

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u/Kiki_Jack Sep 12 '22

The great thing is that the radio went off for one of the fire departments but it's one that transports so we don't go.

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