I know we've all had partners that weren't the brightest bulbs, but have you ever had to tell a "partner" to GET LOST, or tell them to go sit in the rig, up front?
Luckily I didn't I didn't have to face that situation, sort of awkward. But I've seen it done on several occasions. I'd seen them cry, be p!ssed off at either the crew chief or with themselves, etc. 90% of the time we were just a two man crew, and if we needed a third one of Fire/ Rescue would jump in. But believe me, there were sometimes that if we had at least one more person there I would have told the "moron" to sit in the rig and stay there. And I'm not talking about Rookies. There were some guys that had been in EMS for five years or more. Guess that's why most of them were still BLS.
One guy I would have fired on the spot if it weren't for being in a "no man's land". It was right were there were three different agencies could cover. It just depended who the caller called. We'd usually get the call because of the three we were the only ALS, at the time. If one of the other agencies showed up, which often happened, I would have told "Jim" to go with them back to their HQ and wait for a ride back to our station, which he would have been promptly fired. Even though I really needed two sets of hands in the back, I still made "Jim" sit up front and had "Brad" (ILS) drive.
Due to already being short handed, and I cooled down a little bit, and "Jim" was next in rotation to make a transfer, he wasn't fired...that day. His "day" came about three months later.