New Fire Fighters w/ No Training

[canman]

When we get one of these whiners still whining after we tell them why they are bumped. We just look at them and say tuff s#$% that's just the way it is if you don't like it go join another dept.

[sgtdave2002]

We have about 6 new fire fighters on our department. When I say new, all of them have been on for less than a year. All but 2 of them have all there nessasary training. There is one in perticular that is older than most of the guys on the department. He has no training what so ever. He has this problem that because he is older than everybody he thinks he knows everything. He gets mad when he is bumped off a truck by someone younger and more experianced than him. We only bump him when someone with more training shows up other than that he usually gets to go. Everybody thinks he is a good guy and dont want him to take it personally, but with him not having any training he really cant do much. We try and explain our reasoning behing bumping him off but he still thinks he should be on that first due truck. What really stinks about the whole thing is he is usually the first one to the station because he only lives a block away.I want to know what other departments do with there untrained members. The other younger guys that didnt have any training didnt seem to have any problems when they got bumped. Any suggestions or comments would be appreciated.

Thanks,
SGT.DAVE