r/Firefighting • u/JohannLandier75 Tennessee FF (Career) • Feb 08 '25

News Federal Hiring Freeze prevents on-boarding of wildland firefighters

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/08/us/firefighters-federal-hiring-freeze/index.html
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u/TheSavageBeast83 Feb 08 '25

Well the executive order states that public safety jobs are exempt, so who ever is in charge of hiring is a fucking moron.

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u/HokieFireman Fire, EM Feb 08 '25

Seasonal employees aren’t considered public safety. Because this administration is full of idiots who have never actually worked in government and don’t want it to work effectively or efficiently they won’t and don’t write these orders to make sense or even to stand up in court and they don’t care. It’s not about that.

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u/TheSavageBeast83 Feb 09 '25

How are they not considered public safety?

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u/BackgroundWallaby302 Feb 09 '25

Because there forestry technicians under some job codes.

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u/Reboot42069 Volunteer FF/EMT-B Feb 09 '25

Uh because that would make too much sense and that's a no go. Trump's (and even previous admin) making good on running the country like a business, stupid rules and fucking idiots deciding what counts as a certain job role. By far some of the dumbest shit I've seen and I can't wait until we get the numbers in for how many people these stupid policies put in the grave, because Lord knows they will and we'll be the ones as always answering the calls when these policies do the very predictable stupid shit that they're designed to do.

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u/TheSavageBeast83 Feb 09 '25

You can't wait for people to be put in the grave? Tf?

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u/HokieFireman Fire, EM Feb 09 '25

No clue. I didn’t write the EO or their terms of employment.

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u/pegasuspish Feb 09 '25

Elon Musk is in charge of hiring now, so very much tf yes