Ok, this might make the forum interesting for a couple of days...
Anyone else tired of Chief Officers who have lost sight of what the Fire Service is all about. I have seen many of them around on this forum, and they seem to be a breed who are multiplying. They have become so engrossed in their 9-5 office job, that they no longer realize what it is like to come to work for 24 hrs straight.
This is the Chiefs with rules about TV during the day, standardizing uniforms, and really care if you don't get dressed by shift change, those that watch their watch when you get a run, and berate the crew for not meeting their determined respond by time.
Seems to me they have lost sight of where they came from.
Let's hear some stories on this one, might be fun. We have one who used to come to work in the morning, go to bed, and get up at shift change the next day, taking runs in between. Now as a Chief Officer he has the nerve to point fingers at the current Officers trying to tell them how to do their job.
Amazing also how true my subject has become. We get a simple residence (ok nothing is simple, but I think many understand the terminology), and 5 Chiefs respond as support cars. Authorized Gawkers is a term we like to use.
The public are simply Gawkers, but those on the scene not working become authorized Gawkers.
And then they go on the news trying to tell the public what it was like inside...
Oh well... done ranting for now...
For the record, I have spent time in the Office as a Chief, and have been told since coming back to the Co's I was not like I describe.
Anyone else tired of Chief Officers who have lost sight of what the Fire Service is all about. I have seen many of them around on this forum, and they seem to be a breed who are multiplying. They have become so engrossed in their 9-5 office job, that they no longer realize what it is like to come to work for 24 hrs straight.
This is the Chiefs with rules about TV during the day, standardizing uniforms, and really care if you don't get dressed by shift change, those that watch their watch when you get a run, and berate the crew for not meeting their determined respond by time.
Seems to me they have lost sight of where they came from.
Let's hear some stories on this one, might be fun. We have one who used to come to work in the morning, go to bed, and get up at shift change the next day, taking runs in between. Now as a Chief Officer he has the nerve to point fingers at the current Officers trying to tell them how to do their job.
Amazing also how true my subject has become. We get a simple residence (ok nothing is simple, but I think many understand the terminology), and 5 Chiefs respond as support cars. Authorized Gawkers is a term we like to use.
The public are simply Gawkers, but those on the scene not working become authorized Gawkers.
And then they go on the news trying to tell the public what it was like inside...
Oh well... done ranting for now...
For the record, I have spent time in the Office as a Chief, and have been told since coming back to the Co's I was not like I describe.
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