I work for a 9-1-1 ambulance company and to bolster employee morale each station has a TV and either cable or satellite with basic+ and HBO, showtime, skinemax. The new stations also have dsl with wifi and playstation 3.
Even though they promised all of services will be spread out company wide within the next year, we still get a lot of complaints from other crews that our station is better equipped than theirs is.
We also have a lot of downtime, whenever we are not training or responding to a 9-1-1 call or cleaning our equipment we are free to enjoy what the company has provided us assuming we can go from notification to enroute to an emergency call in 1 minute.
Because of the nature of this business, I see no issue with them having provided us consoles to use on their time.
However, the employees who work in the IT and billing departments at the company who work standard 8 hour days are not provided consoles as it would not make sense given the nature of their work.
In the situation the original poster described, I see more issues than benefits arising from providing the consoles.
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I work for a 9-1-1 ambulance company and to bolster employee morale each station has a TV and either cable or satellite with basic+ and HBO, showtime, skinemax. The new stations also have dsl with wifi and playstation 3. Even though they promised all of services will be spread out company wide within the next year, we still get a lot of complaints from other crews that our station is better equipped than theirs is. We also have a lot of downtime, whenever we are not training or responding to a 9-1-1 call or cleaning our equipment we are free to enjoy what the company has provided us assuming we can go from notification to enroute to an emergency call in 1 minute. Because of the nature of this business, I see no issue with them having provided us consoles to use on their time. However, the employees who work in the IT and billing departments at the company who work standard 8 hour days are not provided consoles as it would not make sense given the nature of their work. In the situation the original poster described, I see more issues than benefits arising from providing the consoles.