fracno

Fracno is a silly name that my roommates started calling me when I moved to NY. PM me and I'll send you my Facebook if you really need proof.

It's so weird to think that anyone would believe I'm worth impersonating. And what do I have to gain by lying? I already lost my job and I doubt the Hospital is going to come to me and say "You know Franco, we've been seeing a lot of positive comments on the internet about you, here is your job back!". I never said what I did was professional, it was stupid. One thing I can say is, I didn't post the photos. That's not to say my partner did without my permission but there is something to be said about the fact that I didn't put them on a site as public as Flickr. I never intended for anyone outside of my close friends seeing these photos. I said nobody from the hospital saw the photos, meaning my supervisor or the administration. My close friends have seen the photos from me showing them in person on my computer when I explain what happened. I'd like to thank everyone who has had kind words for my situation as well as adding that nobody owes me an apology. I am fully aware that what I did was stupid and unprofessional, I just don't think it was deserving of such a severe punishment.

Hey guys, this is Franco Colon. Found this because I decided to Google myself. I just wanted to clarify some things. I had decided not to really say anything regarding this since I had planned on fighting this with my Union but the more time that passes by, the less I feel like drawing this out. First off, I was a Full Time EMT at LICH with no prior instances of ever getting in trouble. I've never banged out of a tour and I've always been comically early. As an EMT in NYC we don't have a station that we hang out at in between calls. We sit at our assigned locations in the ambulance and respond to calls from there. We were parked at our assigned location for about 3 hours. I have my personal laptop with me when I work and so we were passing the time. Obviously we ended up going on chatroulette and since our gas masks where with us we put them on. It was stupid and a bad idea. As you know, pictures were taken an put on Flickr. Another stupid, bad idea. What did NOT happen. We didn't flirt with girls, we didn't write anything obscene or vulgar, you couldn't identify what hospital we were from, I was NOT driving and texting (a photo was taken of me while I was sitting there texting on my phone but my left hand happened to be resting on the wheel) and that photo was NOT named "Franco likes Safety". It was 10 minutes out of our 16 hour shift. We responded to our calls, pt care wasn't compromised, nobody would have even known about it. That is until the reporter from the post found the photos, came to the hospital, threatened us with a story. She was just out for blood. Because of the issues our hospital has been facing lately, we were terminated without a chance to say anything in our defense. I've never even received so much as a written warning. Technically we weren't terminated because of the article, we were terminated for a series of extremely grey policies that allows the administration to fire you for just about anything. The really ridiculous thing about this all. Nobody from the hospital except the reporter, my partner and myself has even seen the photos in question. It's all been based on the word of the reporter. I have no desire to distribute these photos but I'll say this. Friends of mine who have seen them agree when I say, it's absolutely crazy so much fuss is being made over such simple harmless boring photos. I love my job, and it pains me that something like this happened. I feel like I was struck by lightning, just in the wrong place at the wrong time. I would love nothing more than to just move on and get a job somewhere else. I just hope this doesn't hang over me like a black cloud while I try to do so. Watch out guys and gals. Big Brother is watching.