We have a fire captain over at our substation that I absolutely HATE working with. I am still in my ALS quals, and so still work as a basic when not working with a preceptor.
This guy hates a couple things:
1)BLS. Feels that we are under trained and have no place out there, completely neglecting the fact that 85% of his crew are only trained BLS.
2)EMS. He is one of those that thinks a separate EMS service should not exist, and Fire should just get paid more to take care of everything.
3)Volunteers. Even though we are a professional service fully incorporated and recognized, we do it for free and not-for-profit. Feels that if you aren't doing it for pay, you probably won't care enough.
4)Women. He feels that women have no place in any emergency field, and all but ignores them on scene. Even if they are the primary medic on hand.
Now, that leaves me with three out of four things that seem to piss him off. Guy will have a patient only two minutes before our arrival, complete BLS call, and will actually refuse to turn over to an EMS crew. As in, he won't tell us anything about the patient, what is wrong with them, or acknowledge our questions. He'll try to walk out without saying anything to us. He'll yell at us if we try to do our assessment if he's still in the room, because he feels like we are stepping on his toes and wasting his valuable time. If you're a woman, he won't even acknowledge you, and outright ignore you.
Funny thing is, he's not even an old-school guy. He's only in his early 40's at most. He's just an angry, antisocial putz. The rest of the substation are great guys that are friendlier than most at other stations, but the guy in charge needs to be repeatedly slapped until he talking.
