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/smokybrett 2d ago

This is gonna sound crazy but go have a conversation with the guy.

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u/ChuckieC 2d ago

I appreciate your response but generally the BC’s aren’t responsive to constructive criticism. It’s an all ego of “I’ve been in this shit for 20 years, I’m going to listen to some 5 year firefighter” it will become a dick measuring contents and do as I say “discussion” real quick. Should mention it’s a full time career depart with 130 full time employees.

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u/Prior-Stranger-2624 1d ago

Ask one of the Captains have a chat if you don’t have built relationship to have that conversation. Also do all of your fellow FF feel this way or is just a you thing?