What to do about a jerk partner?

[Plonker-Bert]

A Regimental Bath, when I was an enlisted man, you urinated & pooed in his bed & he was forced to either remake his bed or sleep in it. :twisted:

[Just Plain Ruff]

I once worked with a guy whose sleep was disturbed by the birds chirping in the bay. He proceeded to climb a ladder and killed the birds; he also lacked anything coming close to reasonable interpersonal skills and could only carry on a conversation related to Star Trek. He once bought a scorpion and placed it in the box where it escaped from it's box. You should have seen the look on his partners face when he admitted it was gone. What finally sent him packing was when he maced a fellow co worker during an argument. It wasn't his lack of job related skills but his utter lack of people skills and that's generally true of 80% of the people who get fired from a job. They're just plain obnoxious people who lack the ability to relate to anyone else. They should be working the night shift in a security shack somewhere, alone. Too bad there isn't a better test to pass than the EMT/paramedic test. Maybe if paramedics were paid better than garbage workers who pick the trash up, we could be more selective about who works in EMS.

I'm trying to decide if I'd rather work with an affable but skill impaired partner or a sharp as a tack total jerk. I wonder if my partner thinks the same thing? Yikes, could it be ME?? :twisted: :twisted:

Holy Crap batman, that partner sounds like a mass murderer in the making.

He should have been arrested for the mace.

[Plonker-Bert]

I find people get the job if they do well at the interview. Probably most people who do the interviews would not have to work with them, like hr so do not care.

[IUemt]

A Regimental Bath, when I was an enlisted man, you urinated & pooed in his bed & he was forced to either remake his bed or sleep in it. :twisted:

:shock: ...wtf

[p3medic]

I used to like the term "wall to wall counseling", we used that on occasion back in my Army days...

[Beeb]

The good lord has answered my prayers and transferred me to another shift starting in 2 weeks! My new partner is somebody I've run with before and get along swimmingly with. The guy taking my spot actually asked to be assigned to Mr. Abrasive, thinking he'll be able to get along with him. He 3rd rode with us the other day & it looks like he really might. They seemed to get on pretty well. God help him!

[Richard B the EMT]

God help HIM?

God help the two of them, and the community that they serve.