All Blog Posts Tagged 'career' (3)

There was a song back in the 70s that was sung by The Brotherhood of Man entitled “United We Stand”. The chorus went something like “For united we stand, divided we fall; and if our backs should ever be against the wall, we’ll be together; together you and I”. Over the years, the song has been a rallying cry for several groups and done by several artists, but what is my point here? I read a couple of recent articles that I have linked to and it got the little guy in my head to wondering why t… Continue

Blogger’s Note: Lately, there have been several discussion topics about the C vs. V again. Now; I am neither the conscience nor the moderator for this website, but I can tell you that those members that are using this forum to voice their displeasure over a perceived “snub” by other firefighters clearly don’t understand how to navigate the website or to do a search for this topic, for if they did, they would find reams on this topic. So, my goal is for this to be the END ALL blog on this… Continue

I, like most of us here, received an email from the secret list (www.secretlist.com). It was discussing the brown-out situation in Boston. The following is a portion of the e-mail I received - But it's a whole lot different now in Boston, MA. Not surprisingly, defiant off-duty BFD Firefighters are intentionally disobeying BFD orders and voluntarily staffing 3 Boston fire companies that were closed this week as part of a new "brown out" policy aimed at reducing overtime spending. "It's the peop… Continue