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Cake day: December 17th, 2023
  • TotallyNotSpez@startrek.websitetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•First responders of lemmy, do you ever find yourself hating the people you're saving when you're constantly dealing with easily-avoidable catastrophes?
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    5 days ago

    My first job after school and job training was being a paramedic. I was never mad at suicidal people or folks OD’ing. They are in a shit situation in life. But easily avoidable deaths? Jaysus Christ on a bike and all his carpenter friends… Train surfing morons (electricity fueled power lines and low hanging traffic signs!!!). People trying to walk through closed train barriers and getting hit. Car drivers speeding. People looking at their phones while crossing the street. There’s a reason why I quit that job after 2 years. Oh dear lord am I mad at those gobshites just thinking back.

    EDIT: Maybe because I’m mad as hell right now again: I live in a tiny village, so people would assume there’s not much going on there, but we have two major train lines running through it. The tounge in cheeck joke here is: “The train barriers are always closed”. Yes, many times enough, you need to wait patiently in front of them before you can walk again, drive you car again, ride your bike again. A 19 year old girl was thinking otherwise just yesterday and got mown over by a train. While I was standing there.

    What did I do? Calling the firefighters, knowing that’s a lost cause and they will have to spray that fucking 30 meters of blood away with their hoses. Also calling the firefighters here, they are deeply connected with paramedics - not that anyone needed them at that time anymore, but they have emergency psychologists on speed dial as well - for example for the train driver and any bystanders. Blergh. Fucking idiots… Ruining everyone’s day. I didn’t notify the cops around here because they are usually the first responders here at a very busy double highway with people speeding. I didn’t want to fuck up their day as well. Eventually they turned up as well, but only after there was some cleaning and they just interviewed witnesses for the report.

    :(

    EDIT 2: Before you ask: I arrived just a minute too late to pull her away from getting too close to the tracks. :/

  • TotallyNotSpez@startrek.websitetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Have you ever cheated on a test?
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    8 days ago

    I haven’t. Learning was always easy for me. Pay attention in class, take proper notes and do your homework. I know I’m lucky in that regard. Usually I only checked my notes the night before an exam and went through with it care-free. I only really studied for my math A-levels because it’s not my strongest subject and for my final Spanish exam at the end of my 3-years job training because I could’t care less about the language and thus only ever did the bare minimum learning it.