AMR reviews

Where I work staff is young very unproffesional and don't seem to care. Very low pay compared to other EMS operations in local area, including 911 and transport companies. Medics are poor overall with exceptions. Not all crews inspect their trucks prior to going into service and leave dirty trucks and station for oncomming crews. No supervisor. Very poor management, disorganized unproffesional attitude and appearance. Was told starting pay was $19 an hour with time and a half for over 40hrs. Not true pay was prorated to 11.88 hr because I work a 24hr truck. Which means I make the same pay as a 40hr a week medic and I work an average of 56hrs per week. Benifits are the worst that I have seen among EMS companies. No formal continuing education or any ongoing education that I have seen. Overall a lot of smoke and mirrrors from a large corporation. If you are a true proffesional and care about your job and the public image that you present avoid AMR. unless you feel that you might make a difference. Then you will just get laughed at.

Every place has their problems, so don't judge other locations by this review. Also, things change, and hopefully for the better. Tuition reimbursement is at the discretion of management. Though my coursework and degree were inline with my next possible promotion, I was denied tuition reimbursement for what I feel were personal issues, not professional. Yet, another employee received it for classes totally unrelated to her job. Was passed over for a promotion that I had been promised - job pushed onto someone who didn't even want it and she was paid $30,000 more a year than I was supposed to get. Laid off for weak reasons that couldn't fully be articulated to me. They chose to keep an employee paid MORE than me, had less company experience, and who constantly needed my assistance to complete "her" job.