Poor Leadership

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Permalink Reply by Brandon Erbe on August 19, 2009 at 7:12pm

Hey Ben, like the brothers have said you've got to keep your head up. That being said I know exactly what you are going through. We are a combo dept with 1 chief, 1 D/C, 12 fulltime FFs, and around 35-40 pocs. We have had some very rough years here recently. These guys are right it won't last forever but it's hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel right now. I don't know your exact situation but I will tell you what we have done around here lately. After years of being beaten down, treated like kids and personal vendetta style management we have finally come together as one united group and put our big boy pants on to let the district and the chief know we are tired of the way things have been run. (This just recently happened so we dont know what the total fallout will be). This was met, as everything has been, with anger from the uppers. But I think we have shown by uniting the union and the poc association together, that we are serious in turning this dept around. This has been a real boost to morale in the firehouses. Only time will tell if this is going to work or if they are going to go back to their same old ways and at the end of the day in all reality it is their dept to run. I agree with Blake from Topeka sometimes you may have to get political but hopefully that is your last reort. Good luck and Stay safe.

Erbe

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Permalink Reply by Chief Harold Eaton on November 9, 2009 at 7:24pm

just a little advice first how do you elect your officers that really huge and do you have a board of directors if not maybe you shoul consider getting one for such things as this with your chief from past experience that i have had the election of your officers is the first way to stop the chief from tearing down your organization because if the moral of your department is down then it follows you all the way to each scene you go to. This is where you get people hurt, so guess alot of getting your moral back starts with getting rid of all your leadership problems, then go from there. I have approx. 90 volunteers so believe me i know what it's like to not have any morale but we do great but it's very important i listen to my members and their imput and concerns that way i can keep the morale of this organization up and possitive so if i can be of any assistance please let me know.

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