The following transcript is between SFD Chief James Button and Employment Analyst Dale McSwain 8/3/05.

Dale: Thanks for seeing me this afternoon, Chief Button.

James: Call me Jim.

Dale: Very well, Jim.

James: Check that. Chief Jim. Yes. Call me Chief Jim.

Dale: Very well, Chief Jim. We seem to have a problem with turn-over with the SFD.

James: They come and go. Yes.

Dale: Any idea why that is?

James: Poor workforce out there.

Dale: They’re volunteers.

James: Yes, well, they were shifty.

Dale: Like Calvin Hamby.

James: Saw him steal a can of coffee in the galley.

Dale: And Smith Johannson.

James: Didn’t listen to authority.

Dale: And Dennis Roberts.

James: He nearly crashed the truck.

Dale: Perhaps, Chief Jim, if you’ll permit me, it’s because you let them go before they had the opportunity to prove themselves.

James: Of course. Mr. McSwain, this IS a fire department.

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