1.. Yes it is discriminatory, or at least I hope it is. People who chew gum, are badly trained and excessively arrogant are excluded. This rules out 90% of officers from a certain large metropolitan fire brigade right away (but not ALL large met brigades- candidates from GMC welcomed!).
2. Messey: spelling is 2nd to none; typing is crap. One has women to do that sort of thing for one, but the lazy sods don't stay on until 2.34am sadly.
3. Ian, Read Brian's posts. he has explained it quite eloquently. But even a lot of the ADOs in a certain large met brigade (hereinafter referred to as L@@@@@) are inexperienced and badly trained as well as arrogant. When we received a requirement under workplace regs REQUIRING us to increase the investigation delay period on a staff alarm in a theatre from 5 mins to 10 minutes, I tried talking to the guy's ADO, who explained patiently that I obviously misunderstood as L@@@@@ would never even allow such a thing, never mind require it, as (so he told me) little fires can grow into BIG fires in 10 minutes. I had never appreciated this before-amazing what you learn in the fire brigade. (He had to eat his words when the written confirmation of the ''requirement'' came through.) The fire authority in question shall remain nameless , but it wouldn't happen in GMC or West Mids.
3. Chris, Thank you for your helpful comments. For avoidance of doubt, old ethnic lesbian women in wheelchairs are welcome to apply, provided they have the experience defined in my original posting.
4. Brian, I agree experience outside a brigade would be beneficial, but not essential. Attitude is probably just as important.
5. Messey. I am sure there will always be a job in Higlands and Islands for someone of your calibre, so long as you can learn that, when you make pumps 22 for a skip fire, you will denude fire cover for an area of 10,000 square km.
