What is the population of Stanley? How many square miles is Stanley? How many people work for the fire department? How many emergency calls are there per month? How many fire calls are there per month? What other work is done such as inspections and fire clearing? What training is needed for these positions? How much is paid for these positions? So many unanswered questions, so many questions not asked. Dear reporter lady, Try harder.
This was a part time job for him, he and the part time chief both have full time jobs at other fire departments. Stanley is replacing them with full time employees. This hardly seems newsworthy.
So what you're saying is because he was only part time here and full time somewhere else, his job doesn't matter. Thats like saying a paid firefighter who volunteers at another department shouldn't be upset if the volunteer department decides they no longer want them. It doesn't matter that this was part time for him, money isn't the issue. Its about community, trust, helpfulness, and honor. He was only part time because the town decides to pay its people; if they didn't pay them, he'd probably still have been deputy chief and just been a volunteer instead. As it is that's how he started his career there, as an unpaid volunteer. What the town did here was wrong and it was personal. Someone needs to be held accountable for abuse of power, and that'd be the mayor and town manager of Stanley, North Carolina.
This still does not make okay anything about the way how this handled. How would it make you feel if you worked for almost a decade in an institution that saves lives and that relies on absolute trust - even part time - and all if a sudden you get an email that tells you „please clear out your stuff before Friday night“? I would be freaking livid and ask why nobody even had the balls to at least tell me to my face that I was no longer needed. „Unprofessional“ is putting this very lightly. If I was working in that place, and suddenly my team lead got sacked out of the blue…I’d wonder if and when this might happen to me. If they apparently don’t even care to talk to a fire chief and his deputy and just tell them to clear out their things..I have some ideas how they value other service members. If you ask me…the new full time guy got his new position because he had friends in the right place. Imagine that… the guys who for years kept shooting down requests for additional funding for more FTEs very suddenly had a change of heart, decided that they now had the funds for an FTE and booted out two veterans of the service who had previously asked for those exact funds. If this doesn’t smell fishy I don’t know what does. Make of all that what you will but I would not be at all surprised if later it turns out that suspiciously close to the sacking of the two guys, some money changed hands. Or someone made a very generous donation or did a few favors. You know how this goes.
Even more embarrassing is the guy they named interim... probably couldn't fit in a SCBA because the straps don't go out that far...
Skulls rights.
What is the population of Stanley?
How many square miles is Stanley?
How many people work for the fire department?
How many emergency calls are there per month?
How many fire calls are there per month?
What other work is done such as inspections and fire clearing?
What training is needed for these positions?
How much is paid for these positions?
So many unanswered questions, so many questions not asked.
Dear reporter lady,
Try harder.
This was a part time job for him, he and the part time chief both have full time jobs at other fire departments. Stanley is replacing them with full time employees. This hardly seems newsworthy.
So what you're saying is because he was only part time here and full time somewhere else, his job doesn't matter. Thats like saying a paid firefighter who volunteers at another department shouldn't be upset if the volunteer department decides they no longer want them. It doesn't matter that this was part time for him, money isn't the issue. Its about community, trust, helpfulness, and honor. He was only part time because the town decides to pay its people; if they didn't pay them, he'd probably still have been deputy chief and just been a volunteer instead. As it is that's how he started his career there, as an unpaid volunteer. What the town did here was wrong and it was personal. Someone needs to be held accountable for abuse of power, and that'd be the mayor and town manager of Stanley, North Carolina.
well, over 20 volunteers quit over this.. so that seems plenty effing newsorthy to everyone else.
This still does not make okay anything about the way how this handled. How would it make you feel if you worked for almost a decade in an institution that saves lives and that relies on absolute trust - even part time - and all if a sudden you get an email that tells you „please clear out your stuff before Friday night“?
I would be freaking livid and ask why nobody even had the balls to at least tell me to my face that I was no longer needed.
„Unprofessional“ is putting this very lightly. If I was working in that place, and suddenly my team lead got sacked out of the blue…I’d wonder if and when this might happen to me. If they apparently don’t even care to talk to a fire chief and his deputy and just tell them to clear out their things..I have some ideas how they value other service members.
If you ask me…the new full time guy got his new position because he had friends in the right place. Imagine that… the guys who for years kept shooting down requests for additional funding for more FTEs very suddenly had a change of heart, decided that they now had the funds for an FTE and booted out two veterans of the service who had previously asked for those exact funds. If this doesn’t smell fishy I don’t know what does. Make of all that what you will but I would not be at all surprised if later it turns out that suspiciously close to the sacking of the two guys, some money changed hands. Or someone made a very generous donation or did a few favors. You know how this goes.