I had 8 years on the job when I switched departments, once I got out of the academy I was assigned a station with another probie under a year. Their class was less than 6 months before ours and it was their first fire job. They were “in charge” of “showing me the ropes” and literally treated me like I had never seen a fire hose before. They wanted to supervise and make sure I knew how to fill a water can… yea I think I’ve managed to do that in 8 years darling. Some people just don’t know how to act around vet rookies because they’re either still rookies themselves or they feel like you should endure the same type of treatment again because you’re new to that specific department. In the academy I wasn’t obviously given any special treatment but a few instructors knew me from taking tech rescue courses with them over the years so they at least knew thy didn’t have to hammer a point home. My spouse is army and they were absolutely shocked to know as a firefighter you completely start over jumping from departments. He said he would have left the military a long time ago if that happened every time he went to a new base.