She shouldn't be your sugar momma, if you work for AFD, you oughta be knocking back that much already right?? I thought Austin Fire got paid really well.

 

we should start a DTR IAFF group. there seems to be a group for just about everything on here why not one for us. Just an idea.

 

they do but i'm not working there. I wish i was AFD i work for a newly started paid FD we were VFD for the longest time but now we are a combi department now i only make 30K here but i just tested at Cedar Park hope that works out i am high on the list but you know how that works out.

 

I know what you mean. Are ya'll working towards a full paid dept.??

 

i plan on testing at AFD every time till they get tired of seeing me and just let me in. i don't seem to fit the profile they are looking for.

 

a friend of mine worked for austin/travis co. ems...after the boot camp she finally got on a medic unit and hated it! she said it wasnt worth the money and came back here...i think she was partly home sick, but they run them poor souls into the ground. a starting paramedic in montgomery co makes like 43k and starting in-charge is at 53k. i work for a dept that has collective barganing and it is very nice. get your union involved and get the pay up. i think our rookie basics make 38k, emt-i-40k and emt-p-42k. next year its going to be a nice raise too!

brett

 

Hopefully you'll get on at Cedar Park!! Good luck to ya!!!

 

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING RULES!! Wish we had it, we're working on Meet and Confer right now, but dream of collective bargaining!! Brett, you at the station tonight??

 

no i think we will stay a combination for a long time or untill we get a new chief that changes it. but its not to bad i was a volly for a very long time here that is why i am still here. hard to leave you roots. mother and step father got me into it when i was about 8 years old just turn 23 on friday so its been i little while. but that was the good old days when i could fire at the age of 12 drove my first brush truck when i was 13 and my first engine when i was 16. not the safest thing but i was the only one left to drive not a very good turn out back then usually about 5 people would show up. but times have change can't do that anymore with our NFPA putting their foot down. but works out for the best.

 

this guy is as serious as they come when it involves being a fire fighter. he is a good guy and knows alot. he will make a good fire fighter. my cousin is the fire chief here in town and a friend of the family is also been on the dept along time.

 

I second that!

 

were one of 2 privately owned fd in texas right now and let me tell ya it is very nice too! i hope collective barganing works out for youll too...someone told me there is only like 7 depts that have it in our region.

i feel bad for firerescue124 about the selective hiring alot of places are gettin away with. according to the rumor mill houston when to 4 shifts years ago in order to promote minorities and women!! its amazing what things are being allowed to happen. whoever scores highest should get the job/promotion/raise...not based on gender or race!

brett

im off my soap box now

 

Union?????????? you mean the few of us that get together and talk about nothing and go home. we are working on changing the press. he told us that he would never fight for more money. so i think when he is out of the seat we will start working in the right direction.

 

If you're not already, join the TSAFF, they are a great resource, especially for small locals like yours.

 

your a chapter press so you should know what we need to do to get one started i would be very intrested in helping how ever needed. and i know that all the other brothers would like that as well.