r/Firefighting • u/TigerBack56 • 7d ago

General Discussion Whats your departments dumbest/strangest policy?

So i come from a military background and I know how stupid some policies can be. Our department has a few i can think of but I wanted to here from the community, what is your departments dumbest/strangest legitimate policy?

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u/Environmental-Ad-440 7d ago

We are required to wear our uniform from 8am-5pm AND 7am-8am… I find it so strange that they care that we put our pants and boots back on for the one hour between when we wake up and go home instead of staying in the shorts and slides everyone was wearing all evening and night..