Piss poor paramedic...
My boss asked me to partner up with a particular paramedic (I’ll call him ‘B’) as no-one else wanted to work with him. This was due to his arrogance, bullying of student officers, refusing to attend cases close to the end of shift, argumentative nature with anybody (dispatch, colleagues, police, nurses, etc) and performing clinical procedures he was not authorized to do (he was still at the lowest rank of skill levels despite being a veteran paramedic).
Sure, I’ll work with B – how bad could it be?

I was a higher clinical rank but he'd still do stupid shit if he thought I wasn't looking.
I get a phone call from B one day after a ‘random’ audit of some of his cases and B pleaded with me to tell management that it was me that had done the intravenous injection of a particular drug on a patient, despite him having done it unnecessarily and without the required training (actions that constitute assault).

Things never improved and despite repeated warnings he continued with his bad habits.
How did management resolve this? They promoted B to Officer in Charge as this role never required him to attend any clinical cases. B was a nightmare in this job – worse than before.
B used to lecture student officers on ethical behavior of all things – oh the hypocrisy.
Senior management did eventually decide enough was enough and that B was no longer suitable for the Officer in Charge position.

So B got promoted to an even more prestigious and higher paying job in the states capital.

Karma? I don’t believe in it…yet.
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 3:52, Reply)