TextDriversKill
Banned
- Joined
- Apr 19, 2015
- Messages
- 1,235
- Reaction score
- 281
- Gender
- Undisclosed
- Political Leaning
- Moderate
Woman to become NY firefighter despite failing crucial fitness test | New York Post
may 3 2015
The FDNY for the first time in its history will allow someone who failed its crucial physical-fitness test to join the Bravest, The Post has learned.
Rebecca Wax, 33, is set to graduate Tuesday from the Fire Academy without passing the Functional Skills Training test, a grueling obstacle course of job-related tasks performed in full gear with a limited air supply, an insider has revealed.
“They’re going to allow the first person to graduate without passing because this administration has lowered the standard,” said the insider, who is familiar with the training.
Upon graduation, Wax would be assigned to a firehouse and tasked with the full duties of a firefighter.
Some FDNY members are angry.
“We’re being asked to go into a fire with someone who isn’t 100 percent qualified,” the source said. “Our job is a team effort. If there’s a weak link in the chain, either civilians or our members can die.”
Wax’s graduation comes as the city celebrates the FDNY’s 150th anniversary and as the department is under pressure by the de Blasio administration to hire more women.
Only 44 of the FDNY’s 10,500 firefighters are female
Sorry ladies but everybody is sick of your conspiracy theory that men won't let you have jobs like firefighter. Fact is you don't have the ability for many jobs and that is your fault.
But when people get jobs as judges and cops and firemen because of race or sex, that's as wrong as anything can be. People are gonna die because de Blasio insists incompetent women get hired.All affirmative action is wrong even when it's just for jobs at the post office.
Fact is you don't have the ability for many jobs and that is your fault.
Sorry ladies but everybody is sick of your conspiracy theory that men won't let you have jobs like firefighter. Fact is you don't have the ability for many jobs and that is your fault.
Know it's probably feeding the troll buuuttt...you did read the article, like the part it mentions two other Women passed with flying colors, and even the source said did better then half the people there?
Anyways, bit cautious as only one source on this one so far but if it is true, don't agree with the idea. I do agree with critics that it seems a bit silly to have much lower standards to get into training, but higher ones for once in the program. I'd think the FST would be administered at the beginning before wasting time on all the education etc. and finding out you aren't capable of meeting the actual physical requirements.
:lol: I dont think I would hold women accountable for genetics they can't account for.
What does genetics have to do with anything? I'm sure Bruce Jenner in his prime could pass the test.
Fundamental change. You wanted it, you got it.
Tell me you aren't suggesting the men never behave the same way? Holey Toledo, the moaning and bitching from men in many jobs is as bad or worse. I think you are just accustomed to the male way of bitching and don't tolerate the female way of bitching. My daughter's boss is exactly like the project leader you mention, always some dramatic bs, and he has leave and then be gone for weeks.I am retired from the Department of the Navy. I had over 41 years there as an electronics tech, IT specialist, instrument tech, and finally contract analysis. As an ET, I saw certain people get brought into our field, but where I worked, it was real cold inside the lab. There were huge mainframes that had to be kept ice cold. This woman they hired was so incompetent that she destroyed everything she touched. She constantly complained about the coldness of the lab, and that's how they got rid of her. She claimed she was freezing all the time.
Before I retired, they promoted a black woman to GS-13, head project leader. She had to handle 20 to 30 projects at the same time. If the pressure got to her, she would burst into tears, throw a fit, and go home, and she lived 50 miles away in NC. The rest of us had to pick up the slack for her. She had all these math degrees and was an engineer, but every time she was assigned to do a heavily intensive mathematical cost model using statistical formulas, in Microsoft Excel, the model wouldn't work. Funny, I didn't have an engineering degree or a degree in mathematics, but I was always able to do the cost models, and every one of them did what they were supposed to do. If a minority wants to get ahead, the federal government is the place to go. There are a lot of minorities, Hispanics, Asians, and blacks, who have done good work, but this woman should never have been promoted.
Next is the Spec Ops in the military. Watch the standards be lowered. Funny thing, though, the enemy doesn't lower their standards on the battlefield.
Tell me you aren't suggesting the men never behave the same way? Holey Toledo, the moaning and bitching from men in many jobs is as bad or worse. I think you are just accustomed to the male way of bitching and don't tolerate the female way of bitching. My daughter's boss is exactly like the project leader you mention, always some dramatic bs, and he has leave and then be gone for weeks.
I am retired from the Department of the Navy. I had over 41 years there as an electronics tech, IT specialist, instrument tech, and finally contract analysis. As an ET, I saw certain people get brought into our field, but where I worked, it was real cold inside the lab. There were huge mainframes that had to be kept ice cold. This woman they hired was so incompetent that she destroyed everything she touched. She constantly complained about the coldness of the lab, and that's how they got rid of her. She claimed she was freezing all the time.
Before I retired, they promoted a black woman to GS-13, head project leader. She had to handle 20 to 30 projects at the same time. If the pressure got to her, she would burst into tears, throw a fit, and go home, and she lived 50 miles away in NC. The rest of us had to pick up the slack for her. She had all these math degrees and was an engineer, but every time she was assigned to do a heavily intensive mathematical cost model using statistical formulas, in Microsoft Excel, the model wouldn't work. Funny, I didn't have an engineering degree or a degree in mathematics, but I was always able to do the cost models, and every one of them did what they were supposed to do. If a minority wants to get ahead, the federal government is the place to go. There are a lot of minorities, Hispanics, Asians, and blacks, who have done good work, but this woman should never have been promoted.
Next is the Spec Ops in the military. Watch the standards be lowered. Funny thing, though, the enemy doesn't lower their standards on the battlefield.
I think the bigger problem here is that people are using Excel to do anything of consequence.
Really? Which jobs don't they have the ability for?
Really? Which jobs don't they have the ability for?
This thread is a total failure starting with the first sentence.
That's awesome! I'm sure we will all be happy that someone died or got injured when an un qualified fireman was sent to their home, but at least it was a woman.
Firemen are trained to carry people out of a burning home. Firewomen are told to grab them by the ankles and drag them out!! Right thru all the stuff burning on the floor and god forbid if the person is on the second floor and has to be dragged down the stairs with their head hitting every step.
Ceteris paribus, if there were/are not enough male applicants, would you object (personally) if a female firefighter saved your life in this manner? Or would you rather die, out of principle?
Know it's probably feeding the troll buuuttt...you did read the article, like the part it mentions two other Women passed with flying colors, and even the source said did better then half the people there?
.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?