My First Day as Crew Leader

I will forever remember the day I became crew leader. It is “the day.” September Eleventh. Five years after the terrorist attacks on America.

QDoba and ZFun provided a free meal to the public safety workers at station one. I went down there around noon to have lunch. I put my pop on a table. It turned out to be the same table as Heston sat at. In fact he sat next to me. All the other guys were going to a different table. They were making fun of me as being a brown noser.

I feel like I am so far behind. Having been gone for two weeks I had a lot of things I had to do to get caught up. I spent a lot of the day running errands and doing stuff on the computer just to catch up. I had to meet with James and Rich as well. I was planning on meeting with the crew on top of that.

I went to the deuce at four o’clock in the afternoon to meet with Rich. We need to get something set up for housing complaints to expose the process to people via the Website in hopes to reduce the number of E-mails about it.

I then met with James. We talked about his expectations of me being a crew leader and how we can work together. I want this to be a positive experience. I also want to be a good crew leader. After our meeting I wrote up the notes I want to cover at our crew meeting. But with the ICS training tonight we would have to do that late.

We went to training and we all had to do introductions. I introduced myself and I did not mention that I was a crew leader. George said something about it and got everyone to give me a round of applause. John loves to call me Mr. Crew Leader all the time. He loves to see me blush about it.

During the class we got back to back calls so we missed nearly half the class which meant we would have to read a lot of the stuff ourselves before the next class on Wednesday night.

When we finally got back to the station we had our meeting, but it was not like I was hoping, I had to skip some stuff because it was so late and people wanted to go. Over all I got some good feed back from people. But there is more I want to discuss.

There is going to be a lot of work involved to keep up with everything and be able to answer some of the administrative questions that I can foresee people asking. I am excited to be a Crew Leader.