His story in “Protect a Child” was mostly played for laughs, as he used shower curtains to create his own space between Casey and Severide’s actual officer’s quarters.
He accidentally started a fire and was assigned to head to the academy for remedial fire safety training.
So what does this have to do with Stella’s odds of promotion?
While Stella was impressing Boden with her idea for the “Girls on Fire” program and trying to recruit a female CFD officer to co-sponsor her, Herrmann was trying to assert his officer status at Firehouse 51 and get some officer’s quarters for himself.