HeyJaredPlease Suck Less
Quick rants about bosses, leaders and managers who make life suck for those around them. And how to deal with them
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If All You Do Is Complain, You're the Problem (opens the original)
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Everybody knows this person. Nothing is ever good enough. New policy? They bitch about it. New training? They bitch about it. New equipment? They'll find something wrong with it. Another fire department posts something online? They're immediately in the comments telling everyone how much smarter they are. Enough. In this episode of the Please Suck Less Podcast, we're talking about the pessimists, keyboard warriors, chronic complainers, and professional nitpickers who suck the life out of the fir
Weak Leaders Are Destroying the Fire Service (opens the original)
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Weak leadership is one of the biggest threats facing the fire service today. Not staffing. Not budgets. Not recruitment. Leadership. In this episode of the Please Suck Less Podcast , I tackle three issues that are quietly destroying volunteer and combination fire departments: 🔥 Why operational decisions belong to the Fire Chief—not a board of directors. 🔥 Why volunteers deserve a seat at the table when policies are written—and why reading those policies isn't optional. 🔥 Why bad behavior on the
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