sigh*
I really dont understand people.
Let me give another example.
Lets say I arrived on location to find a single family dwelling, single floor with fire in the right rear roow. This is an easy bread and butter style fire. simple and easy. Instead of goin inside and fighting the fire, which is the proper thing to do, i sit in the backyard and just spray water in the general area. this will shove fire through the rest of the dwelling, is the wrong thing to do but thats what i choose to do in that scenario. Id get in trouble. Why? because what i did was against the rules. It looked bad to the public.
Another example. Old person has a heart attack in the middle of town square. instead of doin cpr on this person, because they are old and i know the chance of bringing them back is next to 0, i choose to call it. This again looks bad to the public. They are all standing around thinking, they just dropped why arnt u tryin to do anything? This would be against protocol, against what we are supposed to do, and the wrong thing to do. It, again would look bad to the public. Reality this person should be worked because there is a chance, no matter how slim its still there. these are just examples. when u work in the public u need to act occordingly. punching someone in the face for pushing u comes across as a bully no matter how u felt at the time. Its john Q public that pays our salarys and its them that doesnt know our job and are only looking in from the outside. Its those that we need to make sure we look good for. They dont know what we do, they just see what they see and make judgements from that.
I really dont understand people.
Let me give another example.
Lets say I arrived on location to find a single family dwelling, single floor with fire in the right rear roow. This is an easy bread and butter style fire. simple and easy. Instead of goin inside and fighting the fire, which is the proper thing to do, i sit in the backyard and just spray water in the general area. this will shove fire through the rest of the dwelling, is the wrong thing to do but thats what i choose to do in that scenario. Id get in trouble. Why? because what i did was against the rules. It looked bad to the public.
Another example. Old person has a heart attack in the middle of town square. instead of doin cpr on this person, because they are old and i know the chance of bringing them back is next to 0, i choose to call it. This again looks bad to the public. They are all standing around thinking, they just dropped why arnt u tryin to do anything? This would be against protocol, against what we are supposed to do, and the wrong thing to do. It, again would look bad to the public. Reality this person should be worked because there is a chance, no matter how slim its still there. these are just examples. when u work in the public u need to act occordingly. punching someone in the face for pushing u comes across as a bully no matter how u felt at the time. Its john Q public that pays our salarys and its them that doesnt know our job and are only looking in from the outside. Its those that we need to make sure we look good for. They dont know what we do, they just see what they see and make judgements from that.