How many 60' hoses does it take to reach the fire hydrant 350' away?

I try not to rant, but I feel this is a safe place for this one…

Whisky Tango Foxtrot!? Basic 6th GRADE Math is now racist?!?

If you are a firefighter, I don’t care what you do in your free time, but I want you to be able to QUICKLY determine CoughWithoutACalculatorCough how many 60’ hoses it takes to reach the fire hydrant some 330’ away from my front lawn and I want you to be able to drag my passed-out 6’4" 210# body out of my front door, AFTER you pulled the rest of my family out the front door FIRST, before I die from smoke inhalation! That’s ALL ask! If you cannot do that, need not apply! I’m tall, but I’m not morbidly obese like others, but my length may prove a tad smidgen bit challenging working around the corners in my house!

I don’t care if your claim you are an Oreo, a peacock, a man, a woman, Jewish, Muslim, Ashiest, Christian, straight, gay, outside of work but when you are riding the firetruck and responding to the fire at MY HOUSE I want you to be the BEST DAMN FIREFIGHTER IN THE STATE with candidates ranked 2nd - 10th backing you up!

If you are not the best mechanic in the shop with factory course certifications for my brand car, I don’t want you “fixing” the brakes on my family car!

If you are not the best CARDIAC surgeon in the nation, working with the best cardiac surgical staff in the nation, I don’t want you performing open heart surgery on my wife!

DEI works in the elementary school play; DEI doesn’t work in the REAL WORLD!

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When I got out of the military I tried to get on as a firefighter. The County required 2 tests one physical, and one knowledge. They then ranked you according to the results. I tested out first place in both. Sounds good for me. Nope they were ordered by a Federal Judge to hire only African Americans for diversity reasons (allegedly). There was a landmark lawsuit that eventually sent hiring back to merit based.

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Thank you for your service to our great nation, Zavier! And it’s _________________________________ crazy what’s going on, and I am sorry you were denied the opportunity to continue serving your local community by a racist system! It is absolutely horrible, worse than sucking swamp water through a straw! In the late 1990’s, my dad received a response letter from some company he submitted his resume to, in the 90’s! “You look great for the position, but we need to hire more Hispanics to fulfill our diversity requirements and your last name doesn’t appear to be of Hispanic origins. Thanks for Applying!”

The “disparity” is found in those who do not feel as though they can “change their stars” and seek to play the victim :unamused: With a 3.6 GPA this young man doesn’t believe he is smart enough to transform his life, because he has been taught all his life to be the victim. The crime of disparity is not by how the world needs to operate in a healthy, productive, growing open market - taking the best ideas and the best people to make the best product! The crime of disparity is through the propagation of the victim loop currently being brainwashed into the nation!

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This is one reason why the Biden/Harris admin. is so bad. And it is because of DEI. They don’t care if the person they put in a job that they can really do it. Just look at some of the people that Biden has in his admin. VP Harris she hasn’t done anything that she was suppose to do as VP. Mayor Pete he hasn’t do anything either that he was suppose to do. And how about KJP she doesn’t know how to do her job either. And there are so many more that were put in offices that they don’t know how to do they damn job. And they ALL were hired just because of DEI.

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I haven’t heard of this mayor pete follow… who is they?

Again someone whined and the standards were lowered. Thats how it, after so many years they whine and the standards get lowered. Instead of keeping the standards were they are making everyone who applies has to meet those standards.

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Is there an allowance for the number of cars you have to go through?
I have lost count of the times I had to fix work done by unqualified people and with electrical it can be extremely dangerous.

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it’s Bat$hIt crazy

Does that help?

Long ago, when I were in trade skool; one of my instructors said if you were a black-chinese-girl; you’d be hired by (back then the ONLY long distance company in the U.S.) and have a job for life. Didn’t have to work, just show up. B-C-G checked three boxes on “Affirmative Action” hiring “quota”. The other jobs hired would pick up your slack, willingly, so you didn’t leave.

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That’s the KOOLEST way to say WTF. And you definitely . What you are talking about. The government has a hired letter carriers. To deliver the mail where we live and they don’t speak English and they are going around and around in circles trying to find where . To . Delever. The mail. And people go out side and wave at the mail man to help them to find the street they can not spell or say in English … that’s all most as bad as it I . Was going to deliver your mail . Seriously . Root beer :beer: is all gone . KAZ I am not qualified . Because I have lots of problems with my letters. That was funny . No it was not a neater is a mail man who doesn’t know English or how to find where he needs to get the mail the citizens are doing his job . Go that way please let me look and get my mail and . We have to tell them what to do and which way to go . Sad and they are not from the USA :us: seriously . Wow . Take care love Bobby jean and Debbie and . Amen :us::latin_cross::owl: ps yesterday they broke MOMA’s mailbox and it is laying out side the fence and I forgot to get her a new one when I was in wf. Dam . That’s sucks. And they are not even close to being qualified. Peace out amen . :us::100:

Maybe the pendulum is starting to swing back. Boeing was one of the world’s most admired companies. For years they built the very best that could be built within the industries they served. I studied them a lot in school- their engineering processes were the best in the world. Now they can’t get astronauts home, can’t mount a door plug on a plane, and can’t even remember how to engineer redundancy into software systems on their latest planes. How sad is it all. The company that built everything from B29’s, B52’s, 747’s and 777’s can’t even build a safe version of the venerable old 737 anymore. Maybe they’re seeing the light, if it isn’t too late.

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KJP did something that I flat out thought was impossible. She is so bad at being the White House Press Secretary that I find myself looking back at the “Good Old Days” of Jen “Circle Back” Psaki. At least when Circle Back lied for Biden she had the grace to look embarrassed by her lies.

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