It’s a new year, but DCFD continues to make the news and not in a good way.
On one hand, I am empathetic to the situation. If you lose a large part of your staff on what can be one of the busiest shifts of the year, it’ll be impossible to stay up with the call volume.
More telling though is the ease in which staff seems to call out sick on a holiday. Here’s where the leadership can take the high road in understanding the reasons why.
The lack of corps d’esprit should be telling. I mean, why support your organization when it doesn’t support you?
It’s easy to fall into that mindset. Of course, professionals would put that aside and fight the good fight, maintaining whatever services to community they can.
Unfortunately this will likely turn into yet another “blame the other guy” situation at the department. Too bad. Like other opportunities that have gone by DCFD, this incident will just collect dust in the failure bin.
