Comments on: Control Loses the Plot http://diagnosisnfi.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/control-loses-the-plot/ The musings and occasional rants of an Emergency Care Practitioner Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:42:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: flexible girls http://diagnosisnfi.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/control-loses-the-plot/#comment-22053 flexible girls Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:23:52 +0000 http://diagnosisnfi.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/control-loses-the-plot/#comment-22053 I've basically been doing nothing to speak of. Basically nothing seems worth thinking about. I feel like a void, but that's how it is. I've just been hanging out doing nothing. I’ve basically been doing nothing to speak of. Basically nothing seems worth thinking about. I feel like a void, but that’s how it is. I’ve just been hanging out doing nothing.

]]> By: BananaHammock http://diagnosisnfi.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/control-loses-the-plot/#comment-22049 BananaHammock Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:20:20 +0000 http://diagnosisnfi.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/control-loses-the-plot/#comment-22049 # Lola Cherry Cola Says: November 30th, 2006 at 9:59 pm Lol, you sounds like a paramedic mate of mine, always getting into trouble. You have my sympathy on the situation. Some people are just inadequate eejits, and oddly enough they are usually found in managers posts, I have no idea why… They're promoted to their level of incompetence... ;o) Any chance we can swap Control Managers...? Yours sounds to be better than ours, believe it or not...! Never a working day goes by without me crossing paths with other crews, either green and available, or on the blues... # Lola Cherry Cola Says:
November 30th, 2006 at 9:59 pm

Lol, you sounds like a paramedic mate of mine, always getting into trouble. You have my sympathy on the situation. Some people are just inadequate eejits, and oddly enough they are usually found in managers posts, I have no idea why…

They’re promoted to their level of incompetence… ;o)

Any chance we can swap Control Managers…? Yours sounds to be better than ours, believe it or not…! Never a working day goes by without me crossing paths with other crews, either green and available, or on the blues…

]]> By: neenaw http://diagnosisnfi.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/control-loses-the-plot/#comment-22045 neenaw Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:48:28 +0000 http://diagnosisnfi.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/control-loses-the-plot/#comment-22045 Poor Control! Actually, I do sympathise, there seems to have been some dicksplattery there with all the swapping around and saying the first crew were green when they weren't. But in defence of Control, we don't like AMPDS either and we'd prefer to use our common sense when giving out the calls... but we have the powers that be standing over us blathering about response times and if we put a lower priority call over a higher priority one, we get called into the office and given what for. If you could listen in to our conversations in Control, you'd know we'd be making much same complaints about AMPDS etc that you are... Poor Control! Actually, I do sympathise, there seems to have been some dicksplattery there with all the swapping around and saying the first crew were green when they weren’t. But in defence of Control, we don’t like AMPDS either and we’d prefer to use our common sense when giving out the calls… but we have the powers that be standing over us blathering about response times and if we put a lower priority call over a higher priority one, we get called into the office and given what for. If you could listen in to our conversations in Control, you’d know we’d be making much same complaints about AMPDS etc that you are…

]]> By: ecparamedic http://diagnosisnfi.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/control-loses-the-plot/#comment-22043 ecparamedic Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:22:01 +0000 http://diagnosisnfi.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/control-loses-the-plot/#comment-22043 Lola, You see, that's the silly thing, we get into trouble. We (mainly) joined the Ambulance service to provide the best possible standard of care for our patients. When we are prevented from doing this by numpties with a few dots and a computer programme we get frustrated. Because we get frustrated and try and change the situation we are in for our own mental health we are labeled as 'negative', 'troublemakers' or 'resistant to change'. The irony is that generally we are none of those things, we just don't happen to agree with people who have no idea about our jobs telling us how to do them. I would personally list a comittment to patient care, high standards of care and a desire to see my service do the job well, as characteristics that should be regarded as positive. Sadly in this world of 'Alan Sugar Management' such qualities are seemingly frowned upon. SD :-( Lola,

You see, that’s the silly thing, we get into trouble. We (mainly) joined the Ambulance service to provide the best possible standard of care for our patients. When we are prevented from doing this by numpties with a few dots and a computer programme we get frustrated.

Because we get frustrated and try and change the situation we are in for our own mental health we are labeled as ‘negative’, ‘troublemakers’ or ‘resistant to change’.

The irony is that generally we are none of those things, we just don’t happen to agree with people who have no idea about our jobs telling us how to do them.

I would personally list a comittment to patient care, high standards of care and a desire to see my service do the job well, as characteristics that should be regarded as positive. Sadly in this world of ‘Alan Sugar Management’ such qualities are seemingly frowned upon.

SD :-(

]]> By: Lola Cherry Cola http://diagnosisnfi.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/control-loses-the-plot/#comment-22044 Lola Cherry Cola Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:59:33 +0000 http://diagnosisnfi.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/control-loses-the-plot/#comment-22044 Lol, you sounds like a paramedic mate of mine, always getting into trouble. You have my sympathy on the situation. Some people are just inadequate eejits, and oddly enough they are usually found in managers posts, I have no idea why... Lol, you sounds like a paramedic mate of mine, always getting into trouble. You have my sympathy on the situation. Some people are just inadequate eejits, and oddly enough they are usually found in managers posts, I have no idea why…

]]> By: Mart http://diagnosisnfi.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/control-loses-the-plot/#comment-22042 Mart Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:29:03 +0000 http://diagnosisnfi.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/control-loses-the-plot/#comment-22042 The thing is on this occasion it doesn't sound like patient care came second to AMPDS times as if they hadn't swapped you off the DIB to the U/C patient, and swapped the crew vice versa, then both jobs would have had a faster response!! The thing is on this occasion it doesn’t sound like patient care came second to AMPDS times as if they hadn’t swapped you off the DIB to the U/C patient, and swapped the crew vice versa, then both jobs would have had a faster response!!

]]> By: ecparamedic http://diagnosisnfi.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/control-loses-the-plot/#comment-22046 ecparamedic Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:00:52 +0000 http://diagnosisnfi.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/control-loses-the-plot/#comment-22046 So it's not just me then..........? The last time I had a set to with Control like this I suggested the DM went through the SOE on my call sign and requested the tapes. It went quiet after that.... I had been sorely dicked about that day by an EMD with PMT and even a half blind baboon could see it. Sadly we seem to employ some completely blind ones in amongst the good staff. SD :-( So it’s not just me then……….?

The last time I had a set to with Control like this I suggested the DM went through the SOE on my call sign and requested the tapes.

It went quiet after that…. I had been sorely dicked about that day by an EMD with PMT and even a half blind baboon could see it.

Sadly we seem to employ some completely blind ones in amongst the good staff.

SD :-(

]]> By: big-ashb http://diagnosisnfi.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/control-loses-the-plot/#comment-22047 big-ashb Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:13:33 +0000 http://diagnosisnfi.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/control-loses-the-plot/#comment-22047 wow, that sucks! and to think i actually want to leave the rat-race of big business to be an ambulance tech! as for arguments, you need to see the film "thank you for smoking". it's all about how to win an impossible argument, not by forcing your point, but by just proving that they're wrong or discrediting their opinion. wow, that sucks! and to think i actually want to leave the rat-race of big business to be an ambulance tech!

as for arguments, you need to see the film “thank you for smoking”. it’s all about how to win an impossible argument, not by forcing your point, but by just proving that they’re wrong or discrediting their opinion.

]]> By: kingmagic http://diagnosisnfi.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/control-loses-the-plot/#comment-22048 kingmagic Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:10:20 +0000 http://diagnosisnfi.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/control-loses-the-plot/#comment-22048 Oh how I recognise that!!! Sometimes "Control" is a contradiction in terms! You are right...."patient care" is coming a poor second to "response times"!! Get rid of AMPDS, and we might have a better chance of doing our jobs properly. I think every control in the country employs at least one numbnuts specifically to balls the job up! Oh how I recognise that!!!
Sometimes “Control” is a contradiction in terms!
You are right….”patient care” is coming a poor second to “response times”!!
Get rid of AMPDS, and we might have a better chance of doing our jobs properly.
I think every control in the country employs at least one numbnuts specifically to balls the job up!

]]>