Fire Service job reviews

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• Best thing

  The blokes

  Worst thing

  Under manned and over worked, no real chance for time off except good will of other blokes. Management

  5.5

  Fire Service Firefighter, January 2023

• Best thing

  Saving people

  Worst thing

  What we see

  6.7

  Fire Service Employee, November 2022

• Best thing

  Bonding time with colleagues
  Everyday is different

  Worst thing

  The support is lacking
  Too much to do in such little time
  Overworked

  7.8

  Fire Service Firefighter, October 2022

• Best thing

  The pay
  The responsibility
  The joy in being able to help
  The family unit you work day and night with

  Worst thing

  Rude people when helping them

  9.9

  Fire Service Firefighter, July 2022

• Best thing

  The people you work with.

  Worst thing

  Seeing some bad sights.

  10

  Fire Service Firefighter, May 2022

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• Best thing

  Getting to help people
  Work in a team
  Shift pattern

  Worst thing

  Senior managers
  Training staff conflicting with information and moving goal posts
  Pay

  9.7

  Fire Service Firefighter, May 2022

• Best thing

  Helping community,making a difference to troublesome situations

  Worst thing

  Trauma and hurt

  9.8

  Fire Service Employee, July 2021

• Best thing

  Every day is different

  Worst thing

  Never get Xmas off or special occasions

  3.0

  Fire Service Firefighter, June 2021

• Best thing

  Good work life balance, no work to do at home.

  Worst thing

  Have to work weekends and nights, but I knew this before applying

  10

  Fire Service Employee, June 2021

• Best thing

  Shift pattern and banter

  Worst thing

  Senior managers

  7.5

  Fire Service Firefighter, June 2021

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• Best thing

  I get to help people
  My team are like family
  I look forwards to going to work

  Worst thing

  When someone dies, they lose loved ones or their property is destroyed
  The salary is poor

  9.9

  Fire Service Firefighter, June 2021

• Best thing

  Helping people

  Worst thing

  Seeing bad injuries

  10

  Fire Service Firefighter, April 2021

• Best thing

  Extremely rewarding work

  Worst thing

  Low pay

  9.8

  Fire Service Firefighter, April 2021

• Best thing

  Fixing front line equipment

  Worst thing

  Occasionally work load gets abit manic

  9.9

  Fire Service Employee, April 2021

• Best thing

  Amazing people, amazing place to work.

  Worst thing

  Things/people suffer and that’s why we’re here to help. The fact people suffer is the worst part, but we do what we can to make things right.

  9.9

  Fire Service Firefighter, March 2021

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• Best thing

  Assisting the public

  Worst thing

  Long hours and not enough people to carry out tasks effective

  4.6

  Fire Service Crew manager, March 2021

• Best thing

  Flexibility, the people I work with, rewarding job

  10

  Fire Service Firefighter, March 2021

• Best thing

  Flexible, mostly good people to work with

  9.5

  Fire Service Personal assistant, March 2021

• Best thing

  Saving lives
  Fighting fires

  Worst thing

  Death and deverstation

  9.5

  Fire Service Firefighter, March 2021

• Best thing

  Helping community, colleagues

  Worst thing

  Increased workload and pressure from senior management

  8.9

  Fire Service Employee, March 2021

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• Best thing

  We get to go to emergency’s and put out fires and as well as make friends with your crew

  Worst thing

  Chores

  9.2

  Fire Service Firefighter, February 2021

• Best thing

  Good team, good shift pattern, money not bad.

  Worst thing

  Other people undermining what we do

  9.9

  Fire Service Employee, January 2021

• Best thing

  Every day is different

  Worst thing

  Dealing with traumatic incidents

  9.8

  Fire Service Firefighter, January 2021

• Best thing

  Work life balance, interesting work

  Worst thing

  Poor pay for the work we do. Older member discriminate younger members

  9.9

  Fire Service Firefighter, January 2021

• Best thing

  well respected

  Worst thing

  poor employer appreciation

  3.7

  Fire Service Watch manager, January 2021

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• Best thing

  Helping people

  Worst thing

  Demands on time

  9.7

  Fire Service Station manager, December 2020

• Best thing

  I joined to use my skills to help people and I still really enjoy that aspect of the job. It's a great feeling when you've just rescued someone, saved their home or cut them from their car and handed them safely over to paramedics. It's what I joined to do

  Worst thing

  The pay isn't enough to support a family or even get a mortgage here in the south east. The take home pay is around £1900 per month. Can be around £2000 if you're on duty on a bank holiday or pick up a shout at the end of a couple of shifts, but that's rare. If you have children you will most certainly need to take on a second job on your off duty days which in turn means you are constantly exhausted.
  It did come with the benefit of a very good pension to compensate for the poor pay, but the government have now taken that away and replaced it with one that pays far less and probably not worth signing up to.
  If you do sign up for it, you'd need to work untill age 60 and do 40 years service for a full pension which would still be much much less than the previous pension and almost certainly unachievable.
  Management are constantly after more work and attack our conditions almost daily. To protect ourselves we have to really be on the ball and consider very carefully what is being asked of us. This has obviously lead to a less than happy work environment unfortunately.
  I don't want to tell people not to join, but be aware this job is being attacked constantly and probably isn't the job you think it is. It certainly isn't the job I joined at the start of my career

  3.0

  Fire Service Firefighter, December 2020

• Best thing

  shift pattern

  Worst thing

  Dealing with some people

  8.7

  Fire Service Firefighter, December 2020

• Best thing

  Saving lives

  Worst thing

  Can’t book time off

  7.8

  Fire Service Firefighter, December 2020

• Best thing

  Shift patterns and time off from work

  Worst thing

  pay is low and lots to learn

  9.9

  Fire Service Fire fighter, November 2020

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• Best thing

  Working with a great set of people

  Worst thing

  The polltics

  6.4

  Fire Service Firefighter, November 2020

• Best thing

  Working as a team

  Worst thing

  The jobs you go to

  9.4

  Fire Service Firefighter, November 2020

• Best thing

  Different everyday.
  Good people.
  Helping others
  Shift pattern

  Worst thing

  Senior Management
  Salary
  Lack of respect

  7.8

  Fire Service Watch commander, October 2020

• Best thing

  The team

  Worst thing

  The organisation and night shifts

  4.5

  Fire Service Firefighter, October 2020

• Best thing

  shift pattern

  Worst thing

  pay has not kept track with cost of living

  10

  Fire Service Firefighter, October 2020

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• Best thing

  Helping proole

  Worst thing

  Not getting recognised

  9.3

  Fire Service Firefighter, October 2020

• Best thing

  No two days are the same

  Worst thing

  Shift work - nights

  9.7

  Fire Service Fire fighter, September 2020

• Best thing

  Shift pattern. Every day is different

  Worst thing

  Poor annual pay rises

  9.8

  Fire Service Firefighter, August 2020

• Best thing

  The people I work with

  Worst thing

  Upper management

  5.5

  Fire Service Control room operator, August 2020

• Best thing

  Helping people and firefighting

  Worst thing

  Dead people

  9.0

  Fire Service Firefighter, June 2020

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• Best thing

  Varied , challenging and rewarding

  Worst thing

  Sone of the things we have to deal with professionally and often unsociable hours.

  10

  Fire Service Crew manager, March 2020