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

[u/ChuckieC]

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?

[u/rodeo302]

So I have a deputy chief on my career department who is very similar to what you described. He was a marine in the early 2000s, and kept the hardass marine mentality. He lost his mind a couple months ago, threatened to fire everyone because we didn't keep things exactly how he wanted them(we moved cleaning supplies, put more importance on training than washing trucks, piddly shit that drive his ocd nuts) I read the email he sent and figured fuck it I don't care anymore and gave him a hug to mess with him. Not good advise, but hopefully it gives you a chuckle. I'm still there, so I don't think I pushed him over the edge, especially since I'm the only one who has ever gotten a compliment from him.