05-25-2024, 10:37 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sector 7-G
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Any Calgary Fire Department members on CP?
About halfway through the gauntlet process - next is booking my panel interview and was wondering if the CP Braintrust has/had any active members of the CFD who I could pick their brains for some tips for the last half.
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05-25-2024, 11:19 AM
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I'm a retired Captain, if you have any specific questions shoot me a pm.
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05-27-2024, 09:24 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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I was told that CFD give candidates a lie detector test.
Why?
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Corporal Jean-Marc H. BECHARD, 6 Aug 1993
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Originally Posted by Sliver
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05-27-2024, 05:22 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: SW Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
I was told that CFD give candidates a lie detector test.
Why?
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I don't think it'll be around much longer
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05-27-2024, 09:20 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by btimbit
I don't think it'll be around much longer
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But why is it around at all.
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Corporal Jean-Marc H. BECHARD, 6 Aug 1993
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Originally Posted by Sliver
Just ignore me...I'm in a mood today.
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05-27-2024, 09:28 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: SW Calgary
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Very valid question. HR being HR and really slow to modernize I guess. Really silly that it wasn't ditched a long time ago like everyone else did
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05-27-2024, 10:31 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
I was told that CFD give candidates a lie detector test.
Why?
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Calgary police does as well.
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05-27-2024, 10:52 PM
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Originally Posted by btimbit
Very valid question. HR being HR and really slow to modernize I guess. Really silly that it wasn't ditched a long time ago like everyone else did
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Hopefully it is ditched soon, it eliminates some great candidates for the stupidest reasons.
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05-28-2024, 12:47 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: SW Calgary
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Originally Posted by chummer
Hopefully it is ditched soon, it eliminates some great candidates for the stupidest reasons.
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Agreed! I personally know two very good firefighters who moved to Calgary, already had their 1001's, and ended up at Rocky because they failed either the personal history or polygraph with CFD.
So dumb
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05-28-2024, 04:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Zary's-Mustache
Calgary police does as well.
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C911 does, too.
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05-28-2024, 04:49 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Quote:
Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
I was told that CFD give candidates a lie detector test.
Why?
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If you believe it...it is not a lie... 
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05-28-2024, 05:48 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Spartanville
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Quote:
Originally Posted by chummer
Hopefully it is ditched soon, it eliminates some great candidates for the stupidest reasons.
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Curious if possible for examples of stupid reasons?
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05-28-2024, 07:39 AM
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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
C911 does, too.
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lol wtf. This makes the least sense out of all of them.
What would they even be looking for.
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05-28-2024, 07:42 AM
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
lol wtf. This makes the least sense out of all of them.
What would they even be looking for.
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"If you had a choice between an Oh Henry bar and a Bounty, would you pick the Bounty?"
There are some real monsters out there we need to keep from these positions.
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05-28-2024, 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
"If you had a choice between an Oh Henry bar and a Bounty, would you pick the Bounty?"
There are some real monsters out there we need to keep from these positions.
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The people who answer Big Turk go straight to death row.
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05-28-2024, 08:01 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Zary's-Mustache
Calgary police does as well.
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That I can wrap my head around.
But I don't see the need for Fire Service personnel.
Maybe I'm missing something.
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Captain James P. DeCOSTE, CD, 18 Sep 1993
Corporal Jean-Marc H. BECHARD, 6 Aug 1993
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Originally Posted by Sliver
Just ignore me...I'm in a mood today.
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05-28-2024, 08:48 AM
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
lol wtf. This makes the least sense out of all of them.
What would they even be looking for.
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They do have a lot of information that needs to be kept private so maybe trusting them is why...not that I agree with it but that could be why.
We did have a 911 lady helping organized crime gangsters and being charged recently in Calgary.
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05-28-2024, 08:50 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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I do know somebody who admitted to doing an insurance fraud during a police lie detector test....so maybe it does work.
They insist you have to be honest about everything..and some people believe the machines are like gods so I bet it's those people they wanna get rid of.
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05-28-2024, 09:10 AM
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Join Date: May 2016
Location: ATCO Field, Section 201
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Quote:
Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
That I can wrap my head around.
But I don't see the need for Fire Service personnel.
Maybe I'm missing something.
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The legend is that there was some big prostitution scandal coming out of the fire department.
In actuality it is probably more about hazing than anything.
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05-28-2024, 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Zary's-Mustache
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They insist you have to be honest about everything..and some people believe the machines are like gods so I bet it's those people they wanna get rid of.
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They're trying to weed out the gullible?
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