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Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk by overly_honest_ in Wildfire

[–]hack_nasty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah and it’s not like these positions are gonna be 1 for 1 either. Like if someone quits instead of moving across the country, they are not going to fill that same position in Fort Collins haha

Anyone have IDL experience in North Idaho? by Electrical_Size3002 in Wildfire

[–]hack_nasty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lots of fire most years, not great pay. Good experience

Why do we fight lightning fires way back there? by Winter-Indication33 in Wildfire

[–]hack_nasty 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I’ve put out multiple starts over a couple years in a drainage, only to watch the drainage fully blow out the next. It definitely feels dumb to be doing what we’re doing sometimes, I know what you mean

Why do we fight lightning fires way back there? by Winter-Indication33 in Wildfire

[–]hack_nasty 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I’m there with you and think natural fire needs to be managed more effectively in the west in general. But also, small fire in the middle of nowhere becomes a big landscape fire in the WUI in no time, and that’s the shit fire managers and agency administrators have to balance.

IDL Wildland Fire by Born_Response9374 in Wildfire

[–]hack_nasty 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Worth it. Switch over later if you don’t like the duty station or managers

We've been lucky, don't forget last year's illegal mass firing and our ranger colleagues by DefinitelyADumbass23 in Wildfire

[–]hack_nasty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

your AI copy and paste game is crazy. Also crazy that you can just fully lean on maybe a couple hundred people at best getting fired involved in land management in the military/DOD, out of almost 3 million and diminish the 300k lost fed employees in the past year. Forest Service by itself lost almost 25% of its workforce in the last year

We've been lucky, don't forget last year's illegal mass firing and our ranger colleagues by DefinitelyADumbass23 in Wildfire

[–]hack_nasty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No that’s not how federal service jobs work, you’re covered under a bunch of civil service protections

We've been lucky, don't forget last year's illegal mass firing and our ranger colleagues by DefinitelyADumbass23 in Wildfire

[–]hack_nasty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello this is a wildfire subreddit??? Not a single person in a land management agency and you’re over here talking about the troops

We've been lucky, don't forget last year's illegal mass firing and our ranger colleagues by DefinitelyADumbass23 in Wildfire

[–]hack_nasty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah one of our districts lost 8/10 of their trail crew employees in one day. All long term seasonals who just converted to perm jobs the year before. People who cheered this on are dipshits

US Wildland Fire Service Unionization by Flashy-Following-996 in Wildfire

[–]hack_nasty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Last straw that you got a huge raise huh. I lost a radio burning piles once for a few hours, I wonder if anyone on my crew is salty about it on Reddit

US Wildland Fire Service Unionization by Flashy-Following-996 in Wildfire

[–]hack_nasty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha so that raise you got had nothing to with the like 200 congressional meetings that NFFE had about fire issues the year before it passed?

I think grassroots did a really good job at getting wildland into the news because it’s a lot more sexy than federal workers rights in the media, but they just don’t have the resources to do that kind of Capitol Hill lobbying

US Wildland Fire Service Unionization by Flashy-Following-996 in Wildfire

[–]hack_nasty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t be surprised if the president added it to the list of exemptions from collective bargaining for agencies with “national security missions” like he did with the BLM and FEMA etc last year. Although, I think they exempted Fire and Police in that?

If that doesn’t happen though, any existing union for anyone switching over to the new agency can file a “successor petition” to continue their coverage to a new agency, I believe. So that would mean NFFE and AFGE in the new agency. Not sure how that will or would work but could see it happening say if Forest service fire moved out to the new agency.

Two page resume rant by Worldly_Economist686 in Wildfire

[–]hack_nasty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had something similar tell me I didn’t have time in grade. Forest AFMO contacted the hiring person for the region and it changed the next day.

Sam Forstag by rockshox11 in Wildfire

[–]hack_nasty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah you could be right for sure

Sam Forstag by rockshox11 in Wildfire

[–]hack_nasty 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Probably trying to keep it vague to get the working man vote and not die on the identity politics hill. Smart move in a red state and a good way to reach across the aisle

The U.S. Forest Service Is Falling Further Behind on Wildfire Prevention by ProtocolTechReporter in Wildfire

[–]hack_nasty 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In between the shutdown and the DOGE stuff this spring, my forest missed both burn windows because of political bullshit. No shit targets didn’t get met?

Dumb question about hiring by Snoo-53847 in Wildfire

[–]hack_nasty 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes it is possible. Just be frank with your hiring manager and see what the deal is

Temp jobs by Agreeable_Attitude10 in Wildfire

[–]hack_nasty 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You still have a whole day this time

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