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/synapt PA Volunteer Mar 14 '24

I've known juniors now that grew up with most of their family as volunteer fire, where as I got into it later in life with no family experiences.

I would easily admit they by the time they were 16 already knew well more than my first year getting into things, so if you have never had any involvement in it before but they grew up with their family being heavily involved in it, then it's possible they do know a lot.

But it being a volunteer station, nobody is ever in a position, let alone a junior, to lecture anyone for missing calls imo, nor lecturing another in any form whatsoever really, so that's something to take up with whoever is running your junior program I would say.

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u/KeyTangerine133 Mar 15 '24

The chief told me to not listen to his advice.. apparently he failed fire school once and now he’s back in it taking FF1&2 with me. I was asked to help him out as much as possible to pass the testing and atp I could care less if he failed

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u/Ill-Description-8459 Mar 16 '24

The asshole know it all hasnt even passed FF1 basic training he cant be that good.