Fireshirkers 2: Return of the Whingers

[Scud-U-Like]

Having secured for themselves a bumper payrise, it seems the fireshirkers find unacceptable the prospect of this being staged (something we in the forces have learnt to live with over the years) and backdated!

Time to dig out the Fresco plans, again?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3239923.stm

[Zlin526]

Maybe they feel outdone by the Royal mail scuffers and are still hoping that the public are supporting them?

[Zlin526]

Just read:

News Here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3242345.stm)

London firefighters - who announced their decision at a special meeting - were taking unofficial action between 1600 and 1800 GMT on Wednesday and again between 0700 and 0900 GMT and 1600 and 1800 GMT on Thursday.

As an ex-London Fireman who saw the light and escaped to reality some years back, this is what happens on virtually every London Fire station between these times:

1600-1800 each day - Sit down and watch TV, go in the gym etc etc.

0700-0900 each day - Have breakfast, wash fire engine, wash car, watch Breakfast TV etc etc.

Hardly 'action' in my view.

z

[pilotwolf]

'Local crews are to answer only 999 calls'

Perhaps the answer then is to put all the non-emergency work, like fire prevention and licencing out to private tender.

This would of course reduce the workload on the firefighters allowing for the cuts in manning levels the HO wants to make. Also as the job is now much easier without all that paperwork the payrise can be retracted and there wouldn't be anything for them to whinge about! :)

When they start closing stations and renting rooms in other emergency service premises, positioning vehicles in 'dynamic cover' points, (read laybys and car parks) for hours at time, remove the facilities for washing vehicles let alone your own car then they can see how the other 1/3 live!

Writing from my 8 x 14, ex-cell, in a police stn, shared with 2 ambulance crew during the day! Hey its free though - at least to the ambulance service! :)

[steamchicken]

Isn't a firemen's strike when they refuse to do anything but fight fires a bit like a train drivers' strike if they refused to do anything but drive trains?

[raytofclimb]

Workshy losers. Sack the lot of them and employ the 48 other people who apply for every one of their over inflated jobs. (Dangerous??....... they don't 'rush into burning buildings' any more than I bury the nose at 3000ft with the blowers in.)

The forces shouldn't have to be forced to do this again. Oh, and while we're there, sack all the other militant posties et al for illegal 'wild-cat' striking.

Rant Ends.

Ray.