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Permalink Reply by shannon wiseley on December 10, 2007 at 7:51pm

Pretty much what you do but mine is alittle harder being in the military. What I do at Ft Knox is i teach privates and when I have them I can not leave but when we dont I can.

Permalink Reply by Dork02 on December 15, 2007 at 12:37am

i'm lucky i work for a great boss that dosent care what time i roll in, he just wants a call or a text message when i'm out on a job. he always walks by and asks " hey Chief, how was it?" LOL. when i'm at work tho i get to set and listen and bit my nails.

Permalink Reply by Jeremy on December 17, 2007 at 2:44pm

I work for myself so if the tones drop im there unless im in a meeting or out of town even then but before i had my own buisness i couldnt leave work unless it was a major incident

Permalink Reply by Joel C Kelley on December 21, 2007 at 10:09pm

Ithought I posted on this early on, but apparently not. My first dept. in NM was structured that if you were on duty any given week, it was your responsibility to make as many calls as you could. If you could leave work, great, if not, well stay at work. I had jobs that would allow me to go if the work load was light, and jobs that said no way. You just have to manage what you can manage with your boss, but the best way is to be the boss!

Permalink Reply by Brandon Taylor on December 28, 2007 at 10:31pm

I am very lucky I am the county Emergency Management Director so I get to respond to all the fires and accidents in the county. I usually get to suit up and go in even if it is not with my department because during the day time all of our county departments are short handed so they use me and my deputy for extra man power since we are both on fire departments in the county. Before that I worked for 2 local companies that let me leave for all calls becasue both of my bosses said that if it was their house or them that needed medical help that they want somebody to be able to respond and if they kept me from responding to other peoples emergencies they would feel bad because they wouldn't want that for them.

Permalink Reply by lloyd on December 29, 2007 at 7:11pm

You are in a fortunate position. Sounds like you really get into the firefighting. Hope we can be friends.

Permalink Reply by Springwater#10 on December 30, 2007 at 8:04pm

I'm very lucky I have my own business and most of my work is around my area so i can usually respond to daytime calls without a problem

Permalink Reply by Bradley Richardson (B-rad) on January 1, 2008 at 12:18am

Hey Zack, I'm a member of the volunteer rescue squad for our county. At my job, my boss and I have worked out an agreement, that if the rescue call is for a serious matter (car wreck, search & rescue, etc.) then I may leave without clocking out, as long as I return to work after the call (if the call ends during work hours). If the call is for something minor such as aiding an ambulance unit with a patient transfer...then they would prefer I stay at work because by the time I get to the hospital to aid the ambulance, the transfer should be completed anyway. However, most of our rescue calls occur at night, which keeps them from enterfering with work too much.

Permalink Reply by Susan on January 2, 2008 at 12:50am

I work for a company called North Star. They allow me to go on calls and I can get paid up to two hours. It is really cool. As long as there is enough help that is.

Permalink Reply by Wayne Owens on January 6, 2008 at 10:04pm

I quit carring my pager to work. It is to hard to listen to them go out and not be able to respond with my brothers. The last time I carried my pager to work, we had a structure fire with entrapments. Man that tough to listen to. I decided then, leave it at home.

Permalink Reply by Patricia Dawson on January 11, 2008 at 4:51pm

Considering I work for an ambulance service, I am unable to respond to calls in my district unless paged out for it. I especially hate not being able to go as a fire stand-by (ALS-BLS ambulance) when it's the department I'm on that's paged.

Permalink Reply by Troy Wolf on January 27, 2008 at 12:24pm

were different here its a small town everyone leaves work if we didn't there would be no one to fight fires some bosses will pay there employees still other won't I work for the county and our fire and ems are controlled by the county so i free to go whenever i need too i aso take call for our ems were a paid on call, a dollar a hr too be on call plus paid so much per run. Fire Dept pays 20 per run and for each worknight meeting night or trainining Ems a local run pays 25 after that out of county its about a dollar a loaded mile. dosen't pay enough to be our only job but it helps on ems i can make $2000 in three months.

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