Ambulance company serving six states shuts down without notice, screwing customers and employees

“The unfortunate thing was lack of notice,” an ambulance service director for a medical center in Parkersburg, w.va., said. “They closed up shop on Friday, and people were scrambling to get to their appointments all weekend, plus early this week.”

Those workers who did show up for work over the weekend either heard the news from colleagues or realized it when faced with locked doors.

First Med reportedly started calling many dispatchers in several cities on Friday and Saturday and told them to begin shutting things down and to not take any calls for emergency transports. Anyone in the middle of a shift was told to just go home.

“We didn’t know what to do,” an emergency medical technician in West Virginia said. “They told us to turn our truck in, to turn our equipment in. That was it,” he said. “It was done so shadily and so behind closed doors.”

Free markets! Capitalism!!

Also, if you think it’s only random shady companies who do this, recall the Mitt Romney campaign shutting down workers credit cards before they could even pay for a ride home on ELECTION NIGHT.