EMTs pissed off at FDNY’s potty order

Big Brother is watching you — in the toilet.

That’s how outraged paramedics and EMTs feel about a new FDNY directive requiring bosses to document and report when ambulance crews refuse an assignment because they are answering nature’s call, The Post has learned.

Their union responded to the FDNY’s restroom-monitoring order with a furious letter to members advising them to “take photographic evidence” every time they go to the loo — and e-mail the pictures to their captains.

“What does this come down to — document your poop with a TikTok loop?” a veteran medic said, calling EMS brass “the bathroom police.”

The new directive comes as the FDNY tries to lower EMS response times to emergencies that typically rise during the summer.

EMTs and paramedics are stationed in ambulances parked on the streets, so they have to go “out of service” to use a restroom at a hospital, restaurant or gas station. Meanwhile, 911 calls are assigned to the next available unit.

“Every time a unit refuses an assignment, another unit must respond from a further distance,” says the order to EMS chiefs from Division 3 Commander Claudio Dinorah. “Another unit has to travel a longer distance using lights and sirens on priority assignments, placing the responding crew in a greater risk of an MVC [motor vehicle collision]. Refusal of an assignment increases our off-service time, and increases our response times.”

What does this come down to — document your poop with a TikTok loop?

— A veteran medic

Starting this week, the e-mail says, officials “will begin generating a daily report that reflects the number of times in a day that your members refuse to respond to a 911 assignment.

“The goal is not to refuse our members the ability to use the facilities, but to ensure that those who are falsifying signals/refusing 911 assignments are held accountable.”

Michael Greco, vice president of Local 2507 of the Uniformed EMTs, Paramedics and Fire Inspectors, expressed his disdain in a letter to members.

“To aid our chiefs and supervisors in the important work of investigating all bathroom usage claims,” he wrote, “we are advising you take photographic evidence to attach along with requested statements.”

“Make sure there is a time and date stamp on the picture. You can forward the picture to the station e-mail of the supervisor requesting the statement and they can print it out to attach to the statement form.”

FDNY spokesman Jim Long noted 911 calls had returned to pre-pandemic levels of about 4,000 a day and said it was essential for supervisors to record when ambulance units are unable to take a call, regardless of the reason.

“No EMS members shall be denied the need to use the facilities when necessary,” he said.