Texting while lifeguarding!

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Laying in a lounge chair at the apartment pool this morning. Catching some rays, reading some work docs. Kids splashing made me look. Glad I did, a toddler runs right off the deep end. The mom scrambles, I paused for a second looking at the lifeguard. She was face down on her cell phone texting, completely oblivious. I reacted by instinct, flew into the pool grabbing the submerged toddler. Handed her to the mom. The toddler was already out of the water, the lifeguard was busy securing her precious cell phone in a safe place.

If you see a teenage lifeguard texting on the job do something. You could save somebody's life.
 
What?? A teenage female was texting while she was supposed to be doing something else???

Pix or it didn't happen...
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RF Overlord - Yeah really. A teenager's first instinct would be grab the phone, video the lifeguard texting on her phone as a baby drowns. Post to YouTube for views, maybe get famous with a visit to CNN.

Rick in PA - Yep. I scolded her.. "I bet you'd respond faster if your f-ing cell phone fell in. Maybe we should find out".
 
Originally Posted By: andrewg
She should be relieved from employment for that.


Sad and I hope this occurs. OP and the mother should take it up with management.

Originally Posted By: Doog
What about the kids Mother? Everyone wants to roast the guard but what about the kids mother?


He said that the mother scrambled. I take that like scrambling jets, or the act of quickly getting military aircraft airborne to react to an immediate threat, usually to intercept hostile aircraft. So it sounds like she was on her way and the OP was as well.

Bet that water was cold up in MA!
 
Originally Posted By: andrewg
She should be relieved from employment for that.


Do you think the next person is going to be any better??
 
Originally Posted By: Cristobal
An apartment with a lifeguard?

In California they just put signs up at the pool to warn that kids might drown in it.

Nanny State law 105 CMR 435.23. The board of health inspects semi-private pools, decides if lifeguards are necessary. A couple of years ago there was a drowning in a backyard private pool which does not apply here. A knee-jerk reaction was to crack down on semi-private pools. Everybody with a capacity over 25 needs a lifeguard on weekends and holidays. Up goes the rent. They are here weekends and holidays only.
 
Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Originally Posted By: andrewg
She should be relieved from employment for that.


Sad and I hope this occurs. OP and the mother should take it up with management.

Originally Posted By: Doog
What about the kids Mother? Everyone wants to roast the guard but what about the kids mother?


He said that the mother scrambled. I take that like scrambling jets, or the act of quickly getting military aircraft airborne to react to an immediate threat, usually to intercept hostile aircraft. So it sounds like she was on her way and the OP was as well.

Bet that water was cold up in MA!

I didn't notice how cold it was at the time. But later I dangled a toe in, OMG its cold. The mom was really upset at herself. The toddler suddenly bolted from a chair eating snacks catching her off guard. She asked me over for dinner tonight. Shes single
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I have very low regard for most lifeguards abilities due to negative experiences with them while growing up at the Jersey Shore.

One of them, after blowing his whistle for 20 minutes attempting to get us, a group of very capable surfers, to get out of the water due to "dangerous conditions" nearly drowned when he tried to swim out to us.

Of course the cops came and ticketed us all, for disobeying an incompetent pool trained lifeguard who nearly drowned is a 4 foot windswell.

Regarding females and cell phones.... I actually though I saw one driving yesterday who was not actively talking on the phone or texting at a red light, but I was wrong.

Laws do not apply to them, OMG!!!!!!! and whatev's!
 
1. I would have chewed out the lifeguard
2. Tell the mom to always keep an eye on baby
3. Patiently wait for lifeguard to play with phone, snap pictures
4. Talk to her boss or person in charge of pool and show pictures
5. Tell the lifeguard again that she is a pathetic lazy piece of [censored]
 
Originally Posted By: Doog
What about the kids Mother? Everyone wants to roast the guard but what about the kids mother?

Can't 'fire' a kids mother. But yes, she needs to be better prepared to stop and/or assist her child in an emergency. But being that a lifeguard was SUPPOSED to be on duty and be able to handle that sort of situation, that is why the focus is more on her. Sounds like the mother tried to get to the child but was a second or two slower that the OP. No crime there.
I'll tell you, these cell phones and other 'gizmos' cause so many people to lose focus on the real world. Deaths, accidents, and just plain inattentiveness is the result.
 
I was a lifeguard many, many, many moons ago, before cell phones.. but anything that would have distracted you from your duties was forbidden. thats why (atleast at the time) lifeguards actually made decent money considering it was a teen/early 20's kinda job.
 
Mother is ULTIMATELY responsible for the welfare of her child. Common sense says that little children can be UNpredictable at any time so you too much be ready for ANYTHING. She was at a pool, should have known better for letting her attention be on ANYTHING EXCEPT for her child.

The teenage lifeguard will be fired. She failed miserably in her actions and needs to be taught a lesson, her blatant carelessness is outrageous and inexcusable at her age she still knows better.

I am so sick of people being so darn irresponsible, reckless, and inconsiderate of others....

More folks need to start "scolding" these dolts.

Oh how I wish darwin would not be prevented from his job by the modern society. The stupid, brazen, and criminal need to be whittled down.
 
Originally Posted By: antiqueshell
Mother is ULTIMATELY responsible for the welfare of her child. Common sense says that little children can be UNpredictable at any time so you too much be ready for ANYTHING. She was at a pool, should have known better for letting her attention be on ANYTHING EXCEPT for her child.

The teenage lifeguard will be fired. She failed miserably in her actions and needs to be taught a lesson, her blatant carelessness is outrageous and inexcusable at her age she still knows better.

I am so sick of people being so darn irresponsible, reckless, and inconsiderate of others....

More folks need to start "scolding" these dolts.

Oh how I wish darwin would not be prevented from his job by the modern society. The stupid, brazen, and criminal need to be whittled down.

Good post.
 
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