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Arrgh! easy child said 6 fellow lifeguards ditched everyone at the pool in the storm
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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 598335" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>Terry, I too hope that easy child's manager responds appropriately and reads everyone the riot act over that. Perhaps when she's talking to him/her, she should emphasize the company's liability rather than "the right thing to do". Sadly, that's more likely to get the attention this issue deserves.</p><p></p><p>And in addition to the riot act, it's clear those other lifeguards need some sort of emergency response training. Maybe they need to be taught gumption if it doesn't come naturally.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Lisa, I've seen that moronic reaction first-hand as well. Years ago I was travelling to another nearby city for work, and taking the commuter train. The train I was on was being decommissioned for the night and moved to the outdoor yard for storage. So, when we got to the main hub, most of the passengers disembarked but a few of us were still inside (huge rush hour crowd), and then the conductor locked the doors and the train started to head off toward the yard. The procedure is that the inspector is supposed to walk the length of the train before decommissioning to make sure it's empty, but in this case they didn't do so. It was the dead of winter and freezing outside (about -25 C), so it would have been a disaster spending the night in the unheated train at the outdoor yard. </p><p></p><p>I said to the woman sitting next to the Emergency Call button to push the button. She said that she didn't want to get in trouble, and that the button was only for emergencies. I replied that we were already in trouble and this looked like an emergency to me. She still refused, so I got up and pushed the button. The other 5 passengers would have just sat there like lumps and then found themselves at the stock yard, locked in. I can't imagine the panic that would have ensued in a small, locked train carriage at that point, and I'm glad I didn't have to find out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 598335, member: 3907"] Terry, I too hope that easy child's manager responds appropriately and reads everyone the riot act over that. Perhaps when she's talking to him/her, she should emphasize the company's liability rather than "the right thing to do". Sadly, that's more likely to get the attention this issue deserves. And in addition to the riot act, it's clear those other lifeguards need some sort of emergency response training. Maybe they need to be taught gumption if it doesn't come naturally. Lisa, I've seen that moronic reaction first-hand as well. Years ago I was travelling to another nearby city for work, and taking the commuter train. The train I was on was being decommissioned for the night and moved to the outdoor yard for storage. So, when we got to the main hub, most of the passengers disembarked but a few of us were still inside (huge rush hour crowd), and then the conductor locked the doors and the train started to head off toward the yard. The procedure is that the inspector is supposed to walk the length of the train before decommissioning to make sure it's empty, but in this case they didn't do so. It was the dead of winter and freezing outside (about -25 C), so it would have been a disaster spending the night in the unheated train at the outdoor yard. I said to the woman sitting next to the Emergency Call button to push the button. She said that she didn't want to get in trouble, and that the button was only for emergencies. I replied that we were already in trouble and this looked like an emergency to me. She still refused, so I got up and pushed the button. The other 5 passengers would have just sat there like lumps and then found themselves at the stock yard, locked in. I can't imagine the panic that would have ensued in a small, locked train carriage at that point, and I'm glad I didn't have to find out. [/QUOTE]
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