Whats your departments dumbest/strangest policy?

[u/TigerBack56]

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?

[u/Mediocre_Daikon6935]

Honestly?

I think the bell one should stay.

[u/BenThereNDunnThat → u/Mediocre_Daikon6935]

Uh, no. Why would you want to have to get out of bed if your apparatus wasn't going on the call?

[u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 → u/BenThereNDunnThat]

Um.

He said he gets rung if there is a call….

[u/BenThereNDunnThat → u/Mediocre_Daikon6935]

You missed the part where the entire station has to turn out on the apparatus floor and then either go on the call or be dismissed. If it's a call for the Ladder only and you're on the Engine, do you really want to have to get out of bed and go to the bays at 3 a.m. only to be told to go back to bed?

[u/fish1552 → u/BenThereNDunnThat]

Not every dept is lucky enough to have station dispatching. We hear all the tones all the time. Only after the initial tone and dispatch is the tone channel unlocked from the main dispatch channel.
So we're awakened for every call but fall right back asleep when we know it is another station.

[u/BenThereNDunnThat → u/fish1552]

We have the same, but it's still better than running to the bays to be told to go back to bed.

[u/fish1552 → u/BenThereNDunnThat]

Definitely. They keep talking about station dispatching, but I retire in maybe 3-4 yrs and I doubt it will happen before then.