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- From: Walt.Young@f710.n374.z1.fidonet.org (Walt Young)
- Newsgroups: misc.emerg-services
- Subject: Re: Volunteer vs. paid
- Message-ID: <722301019.AA21665@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:28:00 -0800
- Sender: UUCP@remote.halcyon.com
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- DP>I also find this statement highly offensive, being a paid
- firefighter and
- DP>a good union member (Local 1619) I think its high time the
- volunteers get
- DP>off there high hourse, and start to look around, wake up, it's the
- 90's...
-
- DP>No matter what side of the fence you are on, there are going to be
- some
- DP>bad
- DP>apples, but for the most part you get great care, weather you get a
- pay
- DP>check for it or not.
-
-
- Gee....this reminds me of the old saying....If you are not part of the
- Solution then you must be part of the Problem. It would seem
- that if everyone was really looking to solve it...why don't the
- paid and volunteers get together, work out the
- mis-perceptions/problems/etc and educate each other and work
- together. Education/Knowledge/Experience should be the criteria
- here and I think everyone is using the Paid/Non-Paid nomer as an
- excuse to bash the other side. God knows, in a firefighting
- situation you have to rely on each other or you might get killed.
- With your attitude above, I'd hate to have to be a volunteer and
- have you next to me and depend on you to possibly save my life in
- a sudden cave in. Be about the same difference if we were in the
- same foxhole in combat. I'd be scaird to death having you next
- to me.
-
- Hate to say it but I find no one gets on their high horse more
- than Non-Smokers and Union Members. Where to me Unionism is
- just another Welfare Program. (Union bennies cost me higher
- prices for products and Welfare bennies cost me more taxes).
-
- See...it's easy to be offensive. It's not easy to promote
- understanding.
-
-
- DP>......... Lets just drop the subject, becouse it
- DP>may start to get out of had, the topic alone, volunteer vs. paid,
- just turns
- DP>my guts!
-
- I agree because I suspect you are not ready to discuss and solve
- problems...but are ready for a fight and must maintain your ego
- to prove you are right. Not to me...to those volunteers. And I
- say the same thing to them! Both groups need to get the chips
- off their shoulders...then you just might see a group of
- outstanding firefighters and never know whether they are paid or
- not!!
-
- Personally, I prefer my favorite tagline...:
-
- Professionalism is a State of Mind....Not a Paycheck!
-
- IMHO of course.
-
- Walt
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