Tipping fire and emergency medicine in the form of food should totally be a regular thing.
It is.
My Dad was a firefighter for 35 years and people would sometimes bring them amazing food as a thank you for their help in one incident or another. Thing is, their schedules were such that they almost never gave the food to the correct crew, but that didn’t stop them from accepting it graciously.
Dad said he loved B-shift hero cake.
Been a full time ff for around 18 years. Greatest hook up was like a decade ago when a freezer truck broke down in our small city and I got a call from the company wanting to give us all these boxes of boneless skinless chicken breasts, if we could get out to the truck and pick them up. I told them yes, then called the chief to get him to go out there. We had soooo much chicken!
YES it is an emergency, we are moving out NOW
Lol. That’s why I sent the chief. It’s practically his job to run around doing bullshit while we do the emergency work. Plus, I totally knew he’d want some chicken.
More context, please! How does one accidentally make 100 sandwiches too many?
Sandwich shops are a super popular option for corporate catering, bosses will order a few platters to dull the pain of an all-hands meeting.
I’m literally so stupid that I pictured a regular family accidentally making too many sandwiches in their kitchen one afternoon and then calling the fire department. Didn’t even remotely cross my mind that it was a sandwich shop.
Still doesn’t explain how you accidentally make 100 too many.
As the a restaurant manager who has looked at the date of an event, looked at the actual date, then looked at the date of the event again, looked at the sheet he gave the kitchen, looked at the extra servers on the schedule who were about to come in, looked back at the date, looked back at the email, realized that its the 25th and not the 18th, then had to go into the kitchen where several people are prepping for that event and have to lie to everyone “hey, they had to cancel and move it to next week. Don’t worry we can just do whatever with the food, they understand and are basically paying twice”
Hell, I think the big wigs where I work call meetings just so they can comp the lunch.
Y’all are getting sandwiches? We don’t get shit
Not to bitch about free food – free food is good food – but I’ve noticed the workforce uses food as a bandaid to cover more glaring absences like pay and benefits.
I’ve worked in a small handful of different industries prior to settling in healthcare, and it was (and still is) a recurring pattern: the jobs that had the best fringe benefits had the worst actual benefits. I’m positive there are exceptions to this on both ends of the spectrum, but it does prompt the question: are you not getting shit because your corp compensates you well enough that they don’t need to bother with fringe shit? Or are you not getting shit because they fall on that worst-of-both-worlds end of the spectrum?
If it’s the latter, start updating that resume.
Way ahead of you. I’ve been reaching out everywhere lol
Well, fuck. You have my empathy - that’s a shitty process, and by the sound of it, an even shittier status quo.
Keep your eyes on the prize, and good luck.
Make a 100 sandwich order on the wrong day.
Work at a sandwich shop and some dickhead cancels a big order?
Maybe they accidentally made the order a day early
That’s not an accident. That’s a crappy former customer.
What I believe the real answer is, is that the restaurant is likely trying to beat the JIT (Just In Time) production system. For example: If you are a restaurant themed around southern comfort, some of that food can take quite a while to prepare. To get ahead of the curve, you avoid making food in response to each order, and instead opt to make food in bulk at several points along the day, knowing you get X orders on average every few hours. For a sandwich joint, it probably has some additional nuance to it since its not quite as time intensive to make one, but I believe this to be the general answer.
Edit: this works better for some restaurants than others. It brings a higher production cost to cover the waste that went unused, but cuts out costs for labor. And for some joints like a Taco Bell, it can be optimized well enough that it’ll hardly make a difference whether they make it on the fly, or in advance.
Or they got a catering order and just made it on the wrong day
Similarly to how one might accidentally build a jeep.
I have called the fire department near my house a few times and just asked what they wanted for dinner and ordered delivery for them.
Damn, you’re “buy dinner for an entire fire department just for the hell of it” rich. Wanna order me a pizza?
that depends, have you saved anyone from a fire recently?
Most fire fighters haven’t either 😀
Fun story: A car was on fire and both surrounding stations rocketed over since it was the first real fire in forever. A passing water truck had already put it out. The firefighters were furious, as most of them only get to do anything in training.
It’s about the mindset and intent of wanting to save, not just the act itself.
Yea, but I did set the fire, so…
Also does it count if I’m the person I saved from my own set fire?
Asking for a friend…
Is the friend also you?
Yes that makes you uniquely qualified to buy me a pizza!
Light a man a fire and you warm him for a night. Set a man on fire and you warm him for the rest of his life!
I restrained myself from burning down neighbor’s house, so technically yes?
I’d go fat from eating so much pizza
You cool with giving me your address?
Wholesome but my donations to the fire department are contingent on them removing their opposition to street safety improvements in my city.
Their “improvements” are often the need to widen them out to fit their super massive fire trucks. Countries all over the world make do with smaller trucks just fine, even with tall buildings.
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Now I just see you EVERYWHERE after that one time. I swear I don’t even look at usernames lmao.
lol well I do make a lot of comments
Is your for specific fire department actually showing up to town halls protesting that or have we been spending a little too much time on the internet lately?
, they said to a stranger who knows far more about their local fire department habits than some rando on the internet
Lol why would I make this up? They communicate their opposition through back channels. Or at least that’s what city staff are telling us when we ask why they haven’t included safer designs when they’re doing street work.
I’m just randomly reading along and I don’t think YOU would make this up, but I could totally see the city staff making shit up to cover their laziness and incompetence. Even if the fire department is seeing safety access problems with, for instance, safer bike lanes, it seems to me that’s an inadequate design proposal by the city planning office. It’s even possible it was designed to fail, in order to avoid spending money on it. Getting some cyclists and firefighters to work together would probably produce a better solution. No need to include a specific motor vehicle representative, we all have a certain degree of car-brain. But you should include someone who knows about disability access.
Fire departments have been known to oppose bike lanes because they can’t get through to emergencies when lanes are given to bikes and there’s nowhere for cars to pull over. The solution in the rest of the first world is to use smaller trucks that can fit on and take advantage of car-free bike lanes but the car-brained North American fire departments refuse to give up their gigantic trucks and so here we are.
Well obviously we just need to make them Fire/Police/Bike Lanes and size them appropriately!
Where the cyclists are making their mistake here is ignoring that gigantic opportunity for generously sized lanes and a strong lobbying team. The cops and firefighters already know the cars can’t/won’t get out of their way, and bikes would be much easier to pull over. Especially because if you were on your bike and heard a siren you would be certain that vehicle is going to be coming down your lane.
I haven’t thought this through, but maybe the Emergency Lane should run down the center, bright red and wide enough for two fire trucks to pass each other in case they’re going in opposite directions. Then the cars could have their traffic jams and parking etc. in what’s left. If the bike lane was a narrow white strip in the center of the Emergency Lane, you might be protected enough by the extra width and red paint that you wouldn’t need much physical barrier, so pulling out to the curb in the middle of a block wouldn’t be hard as long as you made sure the cars saw you cutting through their lanes. And you could pass each other by momentarily veering into the red.
“This city needs Emergency Lanes with no cars allowed, for our brave Firefighters and Police Officers to save lives!” “But a lot of the time the Emergency Lane will be empty!” yell the car people. “Not if we put the bike lane inside it! Get the spandex squad out of your lanes, and let them be the ones who have to skedaddle, while you drive peacefully along playing games on your phone.”
Psychology.
My friends on the volunteer force were upset about bike lanes too, I asked if they ever even get to drive the rig. They don’t.
Now the roundabout, that’s gotta be tough in the big ass fire engine. It’s hard enough to go 270° with a trailer on.
Stoned side note: ya ever consider that in a roundabout you do a complete 360° circle to go the opposite direction? That’s a 180 man!
Roundabouts are easy.
I think the really long hook&ladder trucks can have a second driver and turnable back wheels to help make sharper turns. But getting one of those would require funds, and that all goes to the cops.
We’re pretty rural so we don’t have them fancy city trucks! But yea the cops get new cars every 3-4 years and our firefighters are volunteers…
That’s because in roundabouts you have an extra turn to the left and then right (or I suppose right and then left in America?) so you’re adding 90 degrees twice to your 180 making it a 360. The math adds up at least
*subtracting 90° twice
(In the US) You would make a 90° turn to the right to enter the roundabout, a 360° turn to the left (putting you back in the same spot as when you entered the roundabout), then another 90° turn to the right to exit.
our fd mandated no speed bumps on a street that was becoming really popular with shitbags racing up and down saying they would destroy firetruck suspension.
we’re 4 blocks deep in a neighborhood why they want to race around here is beyond me in the first place. and the city didn’t have a problem with the same street having a speed bump on the other side of the green-belt… it’s so fucking arbitrary
Speed “cushions” are designed specifically for this purpose, the wider chassis of emergency vehicles can fit around them so they don’t have to slow down, whereas consumer vehicles will always have at least one tire hit a bump so they have to slow down. These are all over the place in my city.
I’m a school bus driver and I love these fuckin things. It’s so much fun to sail over them at full speed and watch the tailgating asshole behind me go airborne.
do they slow down speedin’ cretins?
if it works fuck yeah
Are these “back channels” in the room with us now?
Hmmm are we sure it wasn’t a dog on the other line?
Cool, but maybe next time they’ll ask a homeless shelter instead of people who can afford it.
In some places there are limits, rules and barriers against feeding homeless people whatever fresh extra food you might have on hand. Sometimes they’re to protect against poisoning and other times it’s just to dissuade donations.
A place where it is ok to feed fire fighters but not homeless people. Jeez.
Hey I’m not defending that stuff. Just admitting it exists. I do have a special place in my heart for our excellent firefighters and the paramedics, who have saved my husband’s life several times and are part of the (professional) fire department in my city.
Oh, I didn’t think you are defending this. Was just a general outcry about how shitty some places in the world can be to people, in this case homeless.
In most places, no such rules exist, especially freshly made straight from a sandwich shop. These weren’t leftovers or made in someone’s kitchen. But either way, there’s absolutely no reason to rag on this person for donating food to firefighters.
Braindead take right here, and I work with people experiencing homelessness every day
