News Stipe lands full-time job with fire department

[r-harper-1]

If stipe fights fires like he defends belts …he’ll only put one fire out per year

 

[StonedLemur]

animal collective baby. best band of all time.

Link to your favorite song?

 

[rstringer]

Needs to supplement that lousy ufc pay.

 

[KAZSoliloquy]

Link to your favorite song?

impossible to pick one favorite. but here are a few:

 

[BigDramaShow26]

I should have chosen being a firefighter. Not amazing money, but great benefits, super early retirement (in my country). And you have a chill life.

Chill most of the time but it is also extremely dangerous sometimes and you see a lot of shit that can beat you up mentally. I dont think it's for everybody. You're definitely gonna come across multiple dead bodies and traumatic injuries to people outside of having to go inside burning buildings.

 

[BigDramaShow26]

Kind of odd, for me, to think of a “full time” job as a fire fighter. Are there that many local fires to be put out?

in rural mountains where I am a house fire makes the 8 o clock news….

Firefighters are mostly also EMTs. Think of every car crash, every gas leak. If there is a medical emergency ike heart attacks, when people are trapped, etc. Firefighters are on the scene. They do all of that stuff. They just don't always take their firetruck out.

 

[StonedLemur]

impossible to pick one favorite. but here are a few:

That's pretty cool stuff sir, I can appreciate that.
Reminds me of something, but I can't put my finger on it.

 

[Grandwizard666]

Just wow.

Clearly you are mentally retarded and can't detect sarcasm..

 

[Grandwizard666]

The fire dept pays $700k/yr?

Shit dude I'm about to start throwing myself into fires like spiderman hoping for a job offer!

 

[StonedLemur]

If stipe fights fires like he defends belts …he’ll only put one fire out per year

Lol

 

[Grandwizard666]

If stipe fights fires like he defends belts …he’ll only put one fire out per year

He'll say some incomperable words charging into the fire and get koed
Then he'll sit out for a year waiting for a rematch with the fire

 

[StonedLemur]

Just shows how much I knew. I thought he had been a full time firefighter all along.

Nah, he was part time so he could train and such.

 

[KAZSoliloquy]

That's pretty cool stuff sir, I can appreciate that.
Reminds me of something, but I can't put my finger on it.

def heavily inspired by the later beach boys/brian wilson albums. might be what you’re thinking of

 

[StonedLemur]

He'll say some incomperable words charging into the fire and get koed
Then he'll sit out for a year waiting for a rematch with the fire

He'll tell all the other fires they're not worthy of fighting until he gets that one back lol.

 

[StonedLemur]

def heavily inspired by the later beach boys/brian wilson albums. might be what you’re thinking of

Yeah I was gonna say Beach Boys but it has more of a psychedelic feel to it.
But I can definitely see that.

 

[campbecc]

Correct me if I am wrong. I always assume that firefighters don't do much except chill and workout in the station unless they have emergency. They work like ten 24 hour days out of a month then get all of rest of the month off? I only assume because I knew a paramedic for the fire dept. She sleeps in her truck most of the time but her shifts are like 12 hours and sometimes 24.

it depends on where the firestation is located. Some are really busy and others don't do hardly any runs.

 

[Captain Herb]

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HE doesn't seem to think he'll be retiring because of it...

He's actually been wanting to go full time for some time now. He was supposed to go through the tests to be eligible back in early 2018, but the TUF coaching gig came up and he had to bail on it. I'm not surprised people are thinking the timing of this is evocative of retirement, but I think it's just happenstance. A local TV news segment said the department he got the job with was, what with various retirements and one thing and another, down 7 men on their roster (2 other men got hired the day Stipe did.) That's real unusual; normally open slots are rare and hotly sought after. One has to strike while the iron is hot.

Thanks, this is good news

 

[campbecc]

Just shows how much I knew. I thought he had been a full time firefighter all along.

He was part time, I believe he did do close to 40 hours a week but fire fighter hours are different than a normal job they count the hours they are sleeping so they technically "work" an insane amount of hours but it's more like being on call.

 

[johny ringo]

Im a Retired fireman. Most departments work 24/48 or 48/96. Plenty of time off to do what he normally did. Along with leave and shift swaps, he will be just fine.

 

[M.U.S.C.L.E.]

That’s with a lot of overtime though

Yes, but if you understand how they manipulate the system, you'll see it's very little actual OT worked. First, they switch their shifts with each other, so instead of having a day or two off between shifts, they work three or four straight. That way, they get paid OT for the majority of the days they work even though they aren't working a single extra shift.
There's more, but you get the idea.
Sherrifs do the same thing.
We, the people, are getting scammed.