I work emergency services. I help save lives on a daily basis. I take very stressful calls that give me stress dreams and make me anxious in everyday life. We JUST got overtime pay instead of comp time. My husband and I are finally able to take our first vacation in 3 years. I worked 6 days in a fucking row 10-12 hr shifts just so that we’d have a little bit of spending money (not including the other 3 days I worked 10-12 hr this last 2 weeks). They took out my husbands insurance again this week ($300) and then didn’t pay me my overtime (around $200).
The whole place is going to shit. There’s only 8 full time employees. 1 recently was fired, 1 is quitting, 2 more are thinking about quitting, and the one that has already quit has enough dirt on our current supervisor to get her fired. I love what I do but I can not keep driving as much as I do (I put 3k miles on my car in 1.5 months) just to barely break even.