There's a difference between...
...joining and becoming.
...doing and helping.
...knowing and thinking.
...rushing and hurrying.
...talking and communicating.
...aging and growing.
...leaving and finishing.
It's your job to find that difference.
Think your organization should be run a certain way? That's not enough. That's a worthless opinion.
Strange thing about modern western culture: too much emphasis is placed on ideology. Not enough focus on capability.
Don't tell me what you think. Show me what you can do.
I don’t know why the fire service treats criticism like a violation of etiquette. In other professions it’s normal. In graphic design, critiques were brutal—and the work improved because of it.
How are there officers that were never medics, never drove, and never worked at a busy house?
Rank should be like shoots and ladders. Oops! Captain, you never worked as the medic on a 4,000 call engine? Whee! Back to the beginning.
What if there was a person who could say, "My opinion is just my opinion. And even though I disagree with you, I have no reason to believe my opinion is more correct than your opinion."
Jeez. That person would be unstoppable.
@A_Big_Walton Well, maybe we're agreeing then. I did claim understaffed (or maybe under-resourced is a better phrase) areas might need to do this.
Emphasis on 'might'.
Depending on the amount of victims, putting the fire out might be a better way to help them.
First-in engines making ladder rescues instead of attacking the fire is fine in the outskirts, low-density, rural, understaffed, areas.
Metropolitan departments with good coverage DO NOT do that.