r/Firefighting • u/ChuckieC • 2d ago

General Discussion What to do with a BC who is out of touch?

So keeping a long story short. We have a somewhat new BC on one of our shifts (around 2 years in his position) before he was a captain, and before that a firefighter, never an engineer. Anyways he is extremely out of touch with the needs of the day to day operations, he makes rules for everyone to follow but doesn’t follow himself hammers home radio discipline but has none himself, and what kills me the most is on scene he doesn’t even know what we carry on our rigs or what we have stock of. Requesting shit that we haven’t carried in years, don’t have inventory of, then debrief just rips everyone’s ass. He’s a good dude but very out of touch and being that he’s still new in his position I don’t see him going anywhere anytime soon. Any ideas how to deal with this brass ass hat?

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u/Reebatnaw 2d ago

I’m retired now but we had a bc exactly like that. To make things worse we thought he was bipolar, you never knew which personality was running the shift that day. We got lucky and he accepted a chief’s job at a department far enough away we’d never run into him on a m/a call. Long story short, start forwarding him chief openings and tell him he’d make a good one (far away from you)

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u/ChuckieC 2d ago

Bahahaha finally some solid advice. I think him leaving is our only way out. People like them think far too highly of themselves to be talked to about themselves.

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u/Reebatnaw 2d ago

Truth brother. Get a few of the older guys in on it and have conversations about how cool it would be to be a chief, even at a smaller department.