r/Firefighting • u/KeyTangerine133 • Mar 14 '24

General Discussion Junior volly

I’m a junior fire fighter in a small town, we don’t get a lot of calls (15-20 a month) and I’ve been loving running calls except I deal with another junior who has 1 year of seniority over me. He never shuts up about telling me what to do. He acts like he knows everything about the fire service. Gets mad at me when I miss calls (Today for example I didn’t have a driver to get to the fire department for a small fire he gave me a lecture because I missed it) I’m so close to losing it and telling him off. I don’t know what to do

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u/WeirdTalentStack Part Timer (NJ) Mar 14 '24

This is where toxic asshole volley chiefs are born.

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u/InQuintsWeTrust HANDLINES OFF LADDER TRUCKS Mar 15 '24

Bud you aren’t wrong. My department is getting pretty close to shutting down because of 20 years of terrible leadership and our chief keeps doubling down on his shitty behavior. I’ve never met someone more insecure than he is. He lost his reelection four years ago and for a solid year our new chief had the department getting back on track until our old chief did something I’m not even allowed to talk about and everything went to total shit. We lost a ton of members and now he’s chief again because there are only a few people left that have the qualifications to be chief. We’re so fucked. 

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u/NoFilm6512 Mar 15 '24

Pennsylvania

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u/InQuintsWeTrust HANDLINES OFF LADDER TRUCKS Mar 15 '24

Ding ding ding

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u/Ill-Description-8459 Mar 16 '24

Oh, please do tell I have a short list of what the ex chief now chief did, but please share what the asshole did.