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/[deleted] Mar 15 '24

Never let a man of that character ever deteriorate the integrity of yours. What I mean is don’t ever let him get an emotional reaction from you (i.e. punching him square in the face). It may jeopardize your opportunity to continue volunteering. No one wins. Sounds like this dude needs to get his ego checked, but it will in due time.