Unfiltered fire service commentary. Tales from the dark side of 911.
Ghetto Texas U.S.A.
Joined July 2016
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The whole damn country is falling apart but firefighters have been operating on broken equipment, gas station food, and four hours of sleep for decades. Welcome to the club.
I’ve watched guys eat gas station sushi, slam 6 Monsters and sleep on mattresses from 1997 but we’re worried about whether the fucking water is filtered. Priorities folks.
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Fire department morale reached an all time high yesterday. Microsoft has apologized and assured everyone it won't happen again.
Outlook Outage Leaves 40 Million Americans Unable To Pretend They’re Busy By Forwarding Emails
BREAKING NEWS | CORPORATE AMERICA
Millions of office workers were left in complete panic Thursday after a @Microsoft Outlook outage temporarily eliminated their primary method of appearing productive. With no emails to forward or meetings to schedule, employees were reportedly forced to sit at their desks and confront the terrifying possibility that their jobs serve absolutely no purpose.
@Microsoft has since restored service, allowing millions of Americans to resume typing “Just circling back” and “Per my last email” while accomplishing absolutely fucking nothing.
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Outlook being down might be the greatest thing to ever happen to the fire service. There hasn’t been a single email about micromanaging or new policies all day. Can we keep it down a little longer?
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Bitch, what you need is a Walgreens
CALLER STATED MEDICS MAY HAVE TO CHECK ON HER HUSBAND DUE TO HAVING A SLIGHT TEMP
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Imagine your department being such a shithole that you have to threaten firefighters with a $15,000 bill just to keep them from leaving.
Have they tried a pizza party?
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We need to normalize telling firefighters that they’re not nearly as good at this job as they think they are.
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Imagine what $1.2 million could do for training, equipment, or operational readiness.
You can’t stretch a hose line with a diversity report.
Austin is paying a firm $1.2 million to design its firefighter entrance exam so that black, Hispanics and women score better.
The contract orders the firm to use test sections that "reduce or eliminate disparate impact" on those three groups.
If those groups still score lower, the firm says it will recommend branding and "compensatory adjustments," among other things.
Federal law bans adjusting hiring test scores by race or sex. In 2009 the Supreme Court ruled that New Haven broke civil rights law when it threw out a firefighter exam because too few black candidates passed.
What’s one fire service tradition that needs to die?
And don’t give me some politically correct answer.
I want the one that’ll piss off half your department.
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There's no greater threat to public safety than a grown adult with zero common sense and unlimited confidence.
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The fire service has an incredible ability to take the most competent person in the room and put them under the supervision of the least competent person in the department.
Just now a medical call.
Us: Do you all have power of attorney over your mother?
Daughter on phone with sibling: do we have power over eternity?
Classic.
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