u/Catwhisperer2007

Yep you heard that right.. and I do apologize for the spam as I had 2 things I needed to post on here at once.. We are in such a small town with not even 1,000 people... Infact the job market is so hard that I travelled in from my larger town just to work here and they pay 2 hours worth of wages additionally just because they are grateful I work there... Now here's where it gets weird... One of the Lifeguards is 13?? I am in SHOCK.. We even snooped around and found some paper statements that confirmed he was born in 2012.. I don't know how the city would even allow him to work here?? This is illegal, and in the next town over the Head Lifeguard called to clarify if a 13 year old was working there, to which we never heard a follow up of what happened....

I am not making this up either... Unfortunately her dad is dying and she had to get to his town ASAP... She had got the call this morning and the recert is supposed to be 6 hours long.. We did 3 hours and eventually she just said we are all passing, even saying "If anyone asks this was 6 hours" like okay thank you for passing all of us but I think this may be illegal

I genuinely don’t have the energy to answer especially with all these scammers. If they wanted to get a hold of me that bad they would send me a message.

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When a teenager applies to a job, nobody even looks at them anymore. People ONLY want to hire using the temporary foreign worker program and it SUCKS. There are kids out there that can’t afford to go to post secondary school if they don’t get a job!

I’m genuinely so sick and tired of this and what makes it worse is the immigrants honestly flaunt their wealth. They drive their nice financed cars and nearly always have the latest iphone. All while working minimum wage jobs and spending hardly anything on housing while people in our country are going homeless. I am living Canada CURRENTLY so this may vary across different places, but I live in both Canada and America throughout the year so I know what goes down in both countries

It just seems like we are being treated like second class citizens in our own countries?? And everyone thinks when we go against this that we are automatically racist. It sucks!

I am a lifeguard at a community indoor pool for a small town in Montana, and I need to vent about a mandatory staff training session that was completely out of control. Our supervisors are all teenagers barely older than the rest of the staff, and their lack of maturity created some seriously dangerous situations.

First, during our mandatory physical fitness testing, they gave us less than 4 minutes of recovery time between high-exertion sprint swims. When one of the girls explicitly asked for a proper rest break because she was exhausted, she was denied and told she only got 3 minutes. The lack of recovery time caused her to become so physically sick that she had to leave the shift early to go home.

Second, the teenage supervisors completely ignored standard safety protocols and participated in dangerous horseplay on our waterslides. At one point, a group of staff members formed a massive "train" down the slide, which is a major safety violation that can crack the slide structure or cause crushing injuries.

To top it all off, one of the teenage supervisors walked up the waterslide stairs, grabbed a heavy, roughly 20-pound plastic pool float, and straight-up threw it off the railing, letting it drop three stories down into the pool area.

I’m incredibly frustrated that the people put in charge of safety are acting like reckless kids during an official training block, Please help me out with what I do next as I am LIVID about this.

I am a lifeguard at a community indoor pool for a small town in Montana, and I need to vent about a mandatory staff training session that was completely out of control. Our supervisors are all teenagers barely older than the rest of the staff, and their lack of maturity created some seriously dangerous situations.

First, during our mandatory physical fitness testing, they gave us less than 4 minutes of recovery time between high-exertion sprint swims. When one of the girls explicitly asked for a proper rest break because she was exhausted, she was denied and told she only got 3 minutes. The lack of recovery time caused her to become so physically sick that she had to leave the shift early to go home.

Second, the teenage supervisors completely ignored standard safety protocols and participated in dangerous horseplay on our waterslides. At one point, a group of staff members formed a massive "train" down the slide, which is a major safety violation that can crack the slide structure or cause crushing injuries.

To top it all off, one of the teenage supervisors walked up the waterslide stairs, grabbed a heavy, roughly 20-pound plastic pool float, and straight-up threw it off the railing, letting it drop three stories down into the pool area.

I’m incredibly frustrated that the people put in charge of safety are acting like reckless kids during an official training block,. Please help me out with what I do next as I am LIVID about this.

I am a lifeguard at a community indoor pool for a small town in Montana, and I need to vent about a mandatory staff training session that was completely out of control. Our supervisors are all teenagers barely older than the rest of the staff, and their lack of maturity created some seriously dangerous situations.

First, during our mandatory physical fitness testing, they gave us less than 4 minutes of recovery time between high-exertion sprint swims. When one of the girls explicitly asked for a proper rest break because she was exhausted, she was denied and told she only got 3 minutes. The lack of recovery time caused her to become so physically sick that she had to leave the shift early to go home.

Second, the teenage supervisors completely ignored standard safety protocols and participated in dangerous horseplay on our waterslides. At one point, a group of staff members formed a massive "train" down the slide, which is a major safety violation that can crack the slide structure or cause crushing injuries.

To top it all off, one of the teenage supervisors walked up the waterslide stairs, grabbed a heavy, roughly 20-pound plastic pool float, and straight-up threw it off the railing, letting it drop three stories down into the pool area.

I’m incredibly frustrated that the people put in charge of safety are acting like reckless kids during an official training block,. Please help me out with what I do next as I am LIVID about this.

My sweet, competent boss had to retire early after being diagnosed with cancer. It was awful news, and honestly she was one of the few people holding this place together.

Now we're left with management that is basically a bunch of kids. And before anyone comes at me, I'm 19. My frontal lobe isn't fully developed either. That's exactly why I'm confused about how people my age ended up running an entire pool facility.

Ever since these managers took over, the place has gone completely downhill.
Need a shift off? Good luck. One of them just leaves people on read.

One of the managers makes around $50k a year, lives at home, pays no rent, and recently admitted he doesn't even have $1,000 in savings. Somehow that's the guy making management decisions.

They play favorites constantly. Their friends get the best shifts. Other staff get told to stay off their phones, while their chosen few and the managers themselves sit around using theirs whenever they want.

Cleaning duties? Apparently those are for everyone else. The managers spend most of their time sitting in the office doing absolutely nothing while the rest of us handle the actual work.
And here's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever witnessed: a toddler pooped in the pool. They didn't bother dealing with it properly because another toddler had already pooped in the pool earlier that day. Their response seemed to be, “Well, there's already poop in there.”

The part that annoys me the most is that these people have the power to fire me despite being the exact same age. They have no more life experience than I do, no more maturity than I do, and based on how things are run, definitely not more competence.

To make it even weirder, our janitor seems to be doing a bunch of their office work. I don't even understand how that's possible.

I've got nothing against young people working hard and earning promotions. But being young doesn't magically make someone a bad manager. Being incompetent, lazy, playing favorites, ignoring employees, and avoiding responsibility does.

This place has become a complete circus, and somehow the clowns are in charge.

My sweet, competent boss had to retire early after being diagnosed with cancer. It was awful news, and honestly she was one of the few people holding this place together.

Now we're left with management that is basically a bunch of kids. And before anyone comes at me, I'm 19. My frontal lobe isn't fully developed either. That's exactly why I'm confused about how people my age ended up running an entire pool facility.

Ever since these managers took over, the place has gone completely downhill.
Need a shift off? Good luck. One of them just leaves people on read.

One of the managers makes around $50k a year, lives at home, pays no rent, and recently admitted he doesn't even have $1,000 in savings. Somehow that's the guy making management decisions.

They play favorites constantly. Their friends get the best shifts. Other staff get told to stay off their phones, while their chosen few and the managers themselves sit around using theirs whenever they want.

Cleaning duties? Apparently those are for everyone else. The managers spend most of their time sitting in the office doing absolutely nothing while the rest of us handle the actual work.
And here's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever witnessed: a toddler pooped in the pool. They didn't bother dealing with it properly because another toddler had already pooped in the pool earlier that day. Their response seemed to be, “Well, there's already poop in there.”

The part that annoys me the most is that these people have the power to fire me despite being the exact same age. They have no more life experience than I do, no more maturity than I do, and based on how things are run, definitely not more competence.

To make it even weirder, our janitor seems to be doing a bunch of their office work. I don't even understand how that's possible.

I've got nothing against young people working hard and earning promotions. But being young doesn't magically make someone a bad manager. Being incompetent, lazy, playing favorites, ignoring employees, and avoiding responsibility does.

This place has become a complete circus, and somehow the clowns are in charge.

This made me so upset. 3 of her cats have ran away never to be seen again!! She has had 4 cats in her adult lifetime. The one who didn’t run away actually never comes to her because she’s that shy cat that just sits there in one spot and hides from everyone.

She was talking about how upset she was when this is something that was clearly in her control?? To me, it’s animal neglect. You don’t let your 20 lb child roam around the neighborhood, but you let your cat do that?? Not to mention they live in a rural area!! UGHHHH this makes me so upset

The reason I yelled is because I see it as animal abuse and neglect so please don’t go off on me for that

I am currently 19 years old majoring in education (I live in Canada so it’s good money) but I can’t help but feel like the girls who took the 6 month course and are already making 40-50k a year and the blue collar dudes already have it better than me. It seems like they got their life figured out

Anyone else feel this way?

So today I was at a fast food restaraunt even though I wasn't feeling well. Fast forward to me going to the bathroom and I'm feeling super constipated and it ends up being so painful that I turn my body uncontrollably and just spray all over the floor. It is super wet and it ends up being equivalent to dumping a whole milk jug out on the floor and it spreads all over the bathroom floor. I feel HORRIBLE and I was so embarassed I just abruptly left. I wasn't feeling well to begin with but I didn't think this would happen?? I'm honestly terrified I will get charged with vandalism even though this was a mistake and I literally had no control

So to the people working at that Fast Food Franchise today, I am so incredibly sorry for this mess you will have to clean up

We are not angry enough! People need to stop treating indigenous women and girls so horribly. Whoever did this needs to be held accountable!

We are not angry enough! People need to stop treating indigenous women and girls so horribly. Whoever did this needs to be held accountable!

The tim hortons worker handed me the drink before I paid, and I just drove away… this was literally his first shift and he didn’t know much english either. I feel bad for driving away but I mean he straight up handed me the drink?

My confession is the tim hortons worker handing me the drink before I paid, and I just drove away… this was literally his first shift and he didn’t know much english either. I feel bad for driving away but I mean he straight up handed me the drink?

My confession is the fact that a relatives dad has been gone for days, but his own daughters don't know he passed. But the rest of my family does including me! And nobody will tell them??

This has been making me feel extremely guilty tbh. Long story short, my Grandma's brother passed a few days ago and he has been in a lot of pain. He found out he had a super agressive cancer and got the M.A.I.D the next day! My grandma is besides herself. I would only see this man around once every 3-5 years, and ironically saw him and his wife at Costco a few months ago

But here is the crazy thing... his wife says "don't tell the girls" AKA his 3 daughters. Days have gone by and according to her she still hasn't told her own daughters that their dad is gone! They were extremely close to their dad and would visit him all the time! All 3 of these daughters work full time and would drop their kids off with Grandma and Grandpa for the day as they live in the suburbs and Grandma and Grandpa live on the outskirts of the city.

This has been eating a way at me though honestly... why do I know that my mom's cousins have just lost their dad, but my mom's cousins don't even know? I can't tell anyone about it either obviously. But tbh I think eventually the word will get to them

The oldest daughter is currently in the Dominican with her own family, and according to the wife of the deceased they didn't even get to say goodbye... but their Dad chose that. I feel so guilty for knowing that their dad is gone and they are currently unaware of this 😞

Rest in peace, Great Uncle

*Please don’t take this down! I want to help others know what to study as I failed the first time and passed the second with flying colors*

1. Reading: You get there and do some reading about what the recert entails. You then do a little assignment answering a few questions (styled what to do when this happens) this is then followed by a game of kahoot.

2. 400m sprint: In both of my recents they did the 400m literally right away. You have to swim that distance in under 10 mins. (A good strategy is doing the first 100m all front crawl followed by alternating half the lane front crawl and half the lane backstroke/or breath stroke)

3. Practice: You get into the water and they go over the Rescue Drills. This is not for marks yet. They just want to give you corrections and make sure you know what to do. This is then followed by practice with spinal drills. For some reason they never put much emphasis on the spinal drills and for the final drill exams there was never a single spinal for each of them.

4. Brick drill (20lbs): You have to swim 1 lap length and carry the brick out of the water. This has to be under 40 seconds. (YOU MUST SWIM STRAIGHT UP OR YOU HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN)

5. DNS Drills (Management of a Distressed or drowning victim): Getting them out of the water is straight forward but the DNS talk is where people slip…. here is how the convo will unfold | What happened out there (*putting on gloves as you say this*), did you inhale any water?, okay well i’m going to get you to take 2 big deep breaths and we are going to check if you inhaled any water so take 2 big deep breaths for me (*putting your hand on their back and listening for the breaths)… How old are you? (If they are an adult skip this next line: Okay well since your under 18 we are going to be contacting them and letting them know that you _______ at the pool”) The next bit applies for everyone though….. I suggest you don’t swim in the pool for a little bit incase _______ happens again and I also suggest that if you experience any symptoms like nausea, vomiting, difficulty breathing, chest pain, or fatigue in the next 72 HOURS than you must report to the emergency room as it could be very serious.

6: Management of a submerged non-breathing victim: When you pull them out of the water it’s basic first aid! You must remember GLOVES and you always start with breaths! Then you continue your rounds of CPR. If they start to vomit you turn them over to the side and scoop out the vomit with your gloves.

7: 50m sprint swim: You must swim this in under 1 minute. Thankfully this is really straight forward and I suggest you do front crawl the whole way!

8: 1-Rescuer Scenarios: This is where it gets hard: This is the simulations and you must know what to do for each. A few things on the checklist are gloves, calling the EMS, grabbing a first aid kit, and clearing the pool if that’s what it entails

9: 2- Rescuer Scenarios: The same as number 8 but with two people!!

And that is your recert! I know personally as I did it twice and failed the first time because I got the simulation completely wrong due to someone in my recert’s bad acting.

I hope you pass! Good luck yall :)

I can't stop thinking about this honestly. As someone who has traveled in quite a few provinces I have been to multiple reserves in different provinces. Here's what I noticed...

In BC the reserves are very tight-knight and everyone cares about each other. I have lots of friends who live on the Reserves here all over and most of them genuienly love where they live. Many of the reserves here are also building more houses! Yes there's a few bad ones but I have mainly seen good ones

But then in Sask and Manitoba it's a different story. I step out of my car while visiting a friend close to North Battleford Saskatchewan on a reserve called Poundmaker (I think that's how you say it) As soon as I stepped out of the car there was a man screaming at his wife and the wife was crying. I was so shocked! Here's where it gets bad... the man started hitting her and everyone around including my friend didn't seem to care! Like it was just another day.

A childhood friend of mine moved to a reserve in Manitoba called Cross Lakes as his father had just died and the mom needed help from the family back on the reserve to support her 4 children... so they moved back. We already had phones as he moved when we were 14, and he called me crying talking about how someone had decided they didn't want to be here anymore and he had even seen the body of the person. He was so devastated! And now I don't remember the timeframe but he sent me a voice note a second time a while later letting me know that his cousin had done the same thing to themselves!

As someone who struggled HARD with mental health that broke my heart. And this is something I am asking the reddit group to enlighten myself on this issue. I myself am not indigenous but I have family members that are (My cousin's Dad was raised on Tsuu-tina reservation and my cousin is half indigenous)