BS: when the rescuers need rescuing

Subject: San Francisco FD Station 49
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Mar 19 - 12:39 PM

This specific instance took place at
the San Francisco Fire Department Station 49,
which is distinguished from most fire stations
in that the paramedics and EMTs, with ambulances,
are the special focus of Station 49.

A lawsuit was the consequence when a new paramedic met with -- alleged -- discriminatory treatment.
Another angle on this situation is that
the San Francisco Fire Department has been under scrutiny and under some pressure
to recruit and employ persons in minority categories.

I honestly don't know the result of the lawsuit.
Why do I bring this up?
This is the same station which has been featured recently
in national news stories,
which stories are the focus of the BS thread Defenders of the Cats.

lawsuit referencing Station 49

Subject: RE: BS: when the rescuers need rescuing
From: Mossback
Date: 05 Mar 19 - 08:19 PM

Why are they bothering about mistreatment of a human? The shameful treatment of the animal is so much more important.

Subject: RE: BS: when the rescuers need rescuing
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Mar 19 - 12:09 PM

The social-media activity around the news story
of the complaint, in San Francisco, about
a fire station, from an anonymous complainant
within the SF Fire Department ranks of EMTs and paramedics,

has a couple of emotion-fuelled themes.
One is the attention around the adopted stray cat at the station.
The other is the attention around the anonymous complainant.

MUCH comment has been provoked about what sort of person,
with what sort of motive, would submit the complaint
which is as much a rejection of the humans on staff
as it is of the sheltered animal.

Almost to a 'person,' the commenters have concluded that
the complainant is a self-important arrogant male
who deserves to rot in hell.

It kind of made me stop and think, is all.
It made me consider: what degree of conflict, amongst the EMTs and paramedics
who are the majority of staff members at Station 49's unique
facility for ambulances for the SF Fire department,
would so alienate one of their own colleagues
that they would submit an official complaint --
the sort to which Human Resources MUST respond
whether it pleases HR to do it or not --
bringing unwelcome attention to the presence of a domesticated stray cat
on the premises of the ambulance garage and amongst the humans?

What happened, I wondered, to alienate, provoke, and aggravate
the person who complained?

After reading the link in the opening post of this thread,
assuming that the allegations have some substance to them
in the lawsuit documented there,
I concluded that the rescuers at Station 49
sound as though they need rescuing.

Far be it from me to limit my conjecture about the identity of the complainant
to the plaintiff in the lawsuit.
Doesn't have to be the plaintiff who submitted the complaint against the presence of the cat.
It could be a staff member who sympathized with the plaintiff rather than
with the colleagues whose highly unprofessional behavior
is described in the allegations.

I wish that some of the commenters in all parts of the world
who are posting comments to the
instagram account for the fire station's former cat resident,
would stop to think that
maybe the complaint was one badly messed-up scream for help?

Subject: RE: BS: when the rescuers need rescuing
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Mar 19 - 02:26 PM

The latest from Station 49
is that there are photographs
of public works crew
disinfecting the warehouse floor.
To help out at Station 49.
And remove any trace of, you know who.