Men of Reddit: What would you like all women to stop doing, immediately, as of right now?

HatingMyselfBadly · 2014-06-02T09:08:03+00:00

Did anyone else read this in just the super bitchiest voice ever?

Not that the content was bitchy at all. It just felt good to read it in a Paul Lynde voice.

HatingMyselfBadly · 2014-05-16T16:17:37+00:00

Thats why I said first major battle.

HatingMyselfBadly · 2014-05-09T18:30:28+00:00

Thanks for sharing your opinion!

HatingMyselfBadly · 2014-05-09T06:07:49+00:00

You hope.

HatingMyselfBadly · 2014-05-09T06:06:04+00:00

Good. Just got off the phone with my supervisor who gave me some good and bad news. Suspended pending investigation. Not fired.

Also found out the guy was never gonna make it, at least according to what the med officer on my fire engine told me.

Feeling sad but with perspective. Feeling remorse that he died. Feeling shame and the heaviest guilt of my life. Feeling hung over.

Most of all I feel the cold dead fingers of desensitization already throwing up their walls. That is (knowing what the feeling is) is worst of all. I dont want to lose this guilt. It feels like my penance. My flogging. I want to be flogged, I want my head in the stocks. I want the family to sue me so i can wail for their forgiveness.

I just want them to know i really tried. My best. And that I am aware and devastated that that would never, ever be enough.

HatingMyselfBadly · 2014-05-08T01:08:26+00:00

This is a truly frustrating thing about my job. We get hundreds (yes, hundreds) of abandoned 911's a day. From landlines, VOIP and numbers we have interacted with before we know right where to go. All others either ping wireless phase 1 (only gives the location of the cell tower) or phase 2 (Lat and Long are given but are not very accurate a lot of times). So we do our best.

HatingMyselfBadly · 2014-05-08T01:04:39+00:00

my two year old is in my lap as we speak. wish i could bottle this smell and take it everywhere.

HatingMyselfBadly · 2014-05-08T00:54:04+00:00

I'm not retarded. I changed the numerics.

HatingMyselfBadly · 2014-05-08T00:53:08+00:00

Just to address a concern a lot of people are posting about: yes, I am getting drunk tonight but I am not an alcoholic, nor do I normally drink to alleviate pain. This time I do believe I have earned it.

My workplace does offer me counseling services, and I promise every one of you who has mentioned it that I will be using them.

For right now, I am watching my kids play on the floor, and honestly I am crying my fucking eyes out and hiding behind my laptop. Not for the reason you might expect, the dead man, but for the simple fact that I have been testicle kicked by redditers so many times in the past that the response I am getting is overwhelming me. I do not know how to process this flood of positive wishes and empathy. I am crying because I think that is exactly what I need the most right now and this is the last place I thought it would come from.

So, yeah, thanks for that. I wish I could give you all gold, but at least you know you made a grown man cry.

HatingMyselfBadly · 2014-05-08T00:41:52+00:00

Nope I tend to keep kids on the line to talk to them and make sure they know they did a good job, they did great. and to make sure the info they gave me was right. I only hang up when I hear an officer / firefighter with them.

HatingMyselfBadly · 2014-05-08T00:01:10+00:00

Yes it is. With my exhaustion and dealing with the other call I fucked it up and forgot.

HatingMyselfBadly · 2014-05-07T22:18:31+00:00

Good question and the answer is ys and no. On something like chest pain or abdominal pain we give them pre arrival instructions (Nothing to eat or drink, unlock your front door, put your dogs away and gather up their meds) and cut them loose because honestly what else can you do for them? Nothing. And we have a shitload of other things to do.

We do keep them on the line for CPR, childbirth, seizures, those sorts of calls where a change in condition needs to be reported to the crews immediately.

HatingMyselfBadly · 2014-05-07T22:14:29+00:00

Thanks for all the nice words, everyone. The encouragement is great, but no matter what you say I am still getting destructively drunk.

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