The NEOMG’s Leila Atassi has reported some of the more frightening anecdotes from the personnel files of Angelo Calvillo, newly appointed interim Chief of Cleveland’s Fire Department.
Rank and file firefighters — the bearded among them, anyhow — have claimed that, exemplary scores and supervisory reviews notwithstanding, Calvillo is a demeaning guy who gets a charge out of treating his underlings like shit.
“He tyrannizes firefighters by nitpicking their appearance, writing them up for “inadvertent nose hairs,” wearing the wrong style of fire department uniform or putting on a baseball cap to combat sun glare while driving,” Atassi wrote, referencing a complaint from one disgruntled firefighter who’d had a run-in with Calvillo on a day he’d been unable to shave.
He said that the opinion of Calvillo was so low that firefighters would refuse to trade shifts if they knew Calvillo was scheduled to work, and that most of the rank-and-file considered Calvillo’s singular desire to rise up the Fire Department food chain to be “sociopathic.”
You know what they say in Cleveland: PROMOTE HIM!
This article appears in Oct 7-13, 2015.
It is funny that the City of Cleveland used a subordinate from Calvillo’s part time job to be an assessor during the interview. What is more funny is that Ledford knew this is didn’t recuse himself from the assessment. It seems that the line of conflict of interest flows all around this mess of a choice.
I’ve got a news flash….uniform means exactly that….you purchase them, and are representing the city in an official,capacity…..it’s a condition of employment. There is a fire academy, when you are there you are taught how to wear the uniform. If you choose not to wear it correctly, then you have decided to suffer the consequences……unable to shave….gimme a break, he CHOSE not to shave…….tell the boys and girls at the CFD, if they do not want to play nice, take their ball and go home……jobs are scarce, if you choose not to comply, there is a long list of willing people that will take this good paying job……CFD sounds like a daycare to me. I am glad someone is taking a Leadership Stance……there are no locks at the fire stations keeping them there, if the “basics” are too hard for the men to comprehend , then you might not be in the right job….
Next up in the Cleveland Fire Department Gossip Column: one firefighter told another one that he is FAT! Hear all the JUICY details coming up next!!!!! LOLZ!!!!@!
(sigh)