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Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
04:15 / 11.04.02
Where to start....I'm now a director at a group home, have been at it for about two weeks after being a part-time group home worker for a few years. No training and I'm getting a house that has been run like shite for the past 5 years or so. Last night, I had to have a kid removed because he was breaking things, threatening staff and tried choking another kid who is twice his size. As of right now, we STILL haven't heard from his social worker about a plan to either bring him back or send him away and we have court tomorrow at 11 am...and the parents KEEP calling asking if we will take him back. I have a prelim plan, but I can't do anything without the damn social worker RETURNING MY FUCKING CALLS.

Then, another kid had a complete psycho moment at school saying that one of the staff was his dad, and his mom was coming to pick him up. And his mom isn't with us anymore.

And the poor staff had to deal with this kid calling him dad and hugging him and kissing him on the cheek as if he was the lost lost father he has never known. He also believes that one of the other residents killed themselves last night because he finally discovered he is the reincarnation of his aborted sibling. Needless to say, the resident he is referring to is watching in a bit of horror as he's being told he killed himself the night before.

We got him to the hospital and can't do anything BECAUSE HIS FUCKING SOCIAL WORKER HASN'T SIGNED ANY RELEASE FORMS. So he's back at the group home (which I've driven to three times today) and is on "suicide watch" not because we think he'll hurt himself but because we had no info that he might freak out like that. Our records from the country are 13 pages of a 16 page report talking about his drug use (mostly pot and some crack) AND we have no staff to cover the weekend. Day off? Fuck that, I have to be there twice tomorrow because of going to court with the one resident we bounced and one of the staff leaving two hours before the end of his shift whether we have coverage or not.

ON TOP OF THAT I only saw one of the five movies I rented, and I had to have them back tonight because I would not be able to get away from work to take them back before the place opened.

I love what I do, but I feel like I've been dropped into a hornet's next coated with honey.

Court is going to suck tomorrow.

Did I mention that the kid I have to go to court for has a father with some major political power in the county I live in?

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
 
 
Mazarine
04:23 / 11.04.02
Christ on a fucking cracker that sucks. I wish you luck, Solitaire, sending the proverbial good vibes. Good luck.
 
 
Fengs for the Memory
08:03 / 11.04.02
Thank you - you have cured me of any idea that I was having a bad week. What can I say, keep fightin' your corner. Peace, good things will come your way.
 
 
bitchiekittie
11:36 / 11.04.02
heres sending extra-good vibes to unkink your problems - go kick some ass
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
11:39 / 11.04.02
i would blackmail to politico
they must be used to it by now
hope things get better for ya
 
 
Fist Fun
14:14 / 11.04.02
Good luck mate, stick in there.
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
03:33 / 12.04.02
Update?

Corut went OK, except the father creeped me out when we presented our plan (the kid has to be able to sit in a therapy session successfully, get anger management classes, and sign an agreement that if he is violent toward anyone or our property) we'll take him back...afterwards the dad came up to me and said, "You live on Ehlers, right? And your son is Michael? OK."

Fucktard. Don't fuck with me, since I know what goes on in your house, and you REALLY like that political office you have.

The other kid just breaks my heart. mom is refusing to take any calls, gives us no info, but the social worker is coming out tomorrow so we can get him a two week pysch eval and see if he's schizophrenic. My shifts still suck, (I do a day shift then go back to cover that last two hours before they go to bed) but we hired a new person who's a former Parole Officer, so maybe I'll get to spend some time at home. And spend my time turning the place into where people get better instead of just warehousing them.

The odd thing about it? The group home is owned by the Baptist Church and I'm a chaos magick using Discordian. Bet they won't put that on the brocures.
 
 
grant
12:50 / 18.04.02
It's probably too late for this specific case, but I discussed your problem with me Intended, who is a social worker, and she recommends, if you ever get trouble getting a social worker to comply, simply calling the governor.
In Florida, this sets off a chain reaction which terminates with a Red Folder (she said it with the capital letters) getting handed to a social worker like a red hot potato. The Red Folder has built in feedback mechanisms - there's a whole bureaucratic chain of responsibility linked to it, rising up to the governor's office.
Red Folders, she says, have like *no* turnaround time. People drop what they're doing to get them off their desk.
So, if it happens again, call the governor.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
15:04 / 18.04.02
Hah. That's how you do it, all right. Any given organisation has loads of people whose job is to ignore you. The trick is to find the one whose job is to make all the others drop everything and run around in terror, and land your complaint on the breakfast table next to that worthy's boiled egg.

Speed of response pretty much instant. And all you have to do is smile and look as if you never realised this was going to cause so much fuss...
 
  
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