What is a typical working day like at AMR?

Gives a good amount of 911 experience in an urban setting

Held over scheduled shift often, no lunch breaks, targeting by dispatchers very common, low pay, lack of employees

I’ve worked at AMR for quite a while and the Sup’s are overall kind people who are trying the best they can to help the crews.

Staffing is a nightmare and their hands are tied by GMR in a lot of ways. No night shift differential, no bonuses for extra shifts, just a lot of pleading emails to cover shifts.

- Strong union after the 6 month probation - It is THE Seattle fire ambulance. It is the singular company of the big three in the area that has the Seattle fire contract meaning they pick up all fire calls from north Seattle to south Seattle. - Supervisors and coworkers are generally pretty freindly - Great stepping stone job for entering into proffessions such as paramedicine, fire departments, nursing roles, and doctor - One of the best paid AMRs in the nation (26/hr in 2025) - It's hard to get fired unless you deserve it - management responds to messups in constructive ways. - rewarding sense of personal agency even outside of the workplace (being an EMT is fun) - A better workplace environment than northwest ambulance (was sued by employees for not giving them breaks) - More relaxed than Trimed (but Trimed is still fine from what I've heard)

- high turnover rate - high stress environment (duh, it's medicine) - people will try and hit you, spit at you, make weird comments, you'll have to clean up vomit and feces. - you will unlock the ability to identify Cellulitus and UTI by smell. - Many of the available schedules are night shift, and a newbie might have no choice but to take a night shift (theres a $2 night differential) - People generally gain 5lbs after starting the job - The job is not good for your health. - the higher levels of management are still a that of a typical money-hungry company.

Getting to be at home every night.

Management had no backbone with the client.