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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance         Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 622 days Last activity: 431 days |
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| Fuck that I keep having dreams that I went back to my old job and then waking up and feeling so disappointed. New job blows. Don't know what you got 'til it's gone. | |||
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 622 days Last activity: 431 days |
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| Allegedly, Putin wants Trump to win.
No surprise there. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 622 days Last activity: 431 days |
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| Been at new center for over a week. Desperately want to transfer back to old center. This one is just run so poorly. | |||
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 622 days Last activity: 431 days |
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| It's complicated to explain if you're not in the social work field. I'm a coordinator working directly with people with developmental disabilities.
Apparently I'm too "by the book" in terms of following rules and company protocol, but these are things that exist for very good reasons. For one, they do not document properly and are sending us into the field with groups of people with essentially blank facesheets in their folders. These things are supposed to list what what medications they're taking, their allergies, history of seizures, phobias, and so on. For another, clients are not supposed to be freely walking around the center and are to be monitored by at least one staff at all times, except for when in the restroom. I keep walking by rooms of clients, eating, and unsupervised. What if one were to choke? It goes on forever. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 622 days Last activity: 431 days |
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| I'm trying to transfer back to my old center, at fewer hours and no overtime, but it's sounding like I might have to wait 3 months since I'm on probation again since I'm at a new place. Same company, still, but it's company policy. | |||
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 622 days Last activity: 431 days |
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| Fuck that I'm going to have to wait 3 months before I can transfer back to my old job. | |||
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 622 days Last activity: 431 days |
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Originally posted by Elara I originally applied for the case manager position. My now-boss told me she filled it when I asked after she offered me an activites coordinator position. My old boss, when I went to visit to go pick up my paycheck that ended up there, showed me that she renewed the CM posting this week, essentially having lied to me about filling it. The CM that's currently there (the opening is for a second one) is a MORON and doesn't enforce anything. Clients are frequently unsafe around her and she's immensely inconsiderate. How is she worth the extra money and incentives? Bitch went to an annual meeting for a client thinking all she had to say was, "Oh yeah, *******, is doing fine at our center." She came back going, "They wanted to talk about all of these things in his file and I didn't even know what an ICP is." She was referring to a Residential ISP (Individual Support Plan.) Goddamn I hate it here. (Last edited by Rogue on 07-29-16 09:50 AM) |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 622 days Last activity: 431 days |
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| It's funny reflecting on my complaints about my old job. I feel like Dorothy trying desperately to return to Kansas.
Anyway, screw my weird impulse buying streaks I go through from time to time. I'm expecting a Golden Girls T-shirt and two candelabra in the mail any day now. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 622 days Last activity: 431 days |
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| It's been tough trying to concentrate on the positives lately. I feel like I'm doing time, but on the bright side I get to come home and spend the weekends however I want.
And that's what I'll be focusing on for the next three months: my goddamn weekends. Thankfully this one's pretty full. Next week is getting booked up. Happy it's also still Shakespeare and peach season. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 622 days Last activity: 431 days |
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| I never watched more than the first episode. I'm shocked it was renewed for a second season.
Been watching "Vice Principals" on HBO. It's not nearly as funny as I had hoped, but it's still a better show than most of the comedies I've seen lately. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 622 days Last activity: 431 days |
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| My feed is about 45% Pokemon Go, be it friends posting their screen caps or webpages trying to score clicks by posting comics, videos, and discussions on it.
The rest is about 20% Trump posts and then a miscellaneous cache of other crap like bitching about whatever happened on "The Bachelorette" last night. It all makes me miss LiveJournal back in the day. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 622 days Last activity: 431 days |
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| Eep...
Fuck you, neighbor who keeps starting up your motorcycle and then letting it idle for 15 minutes in the very early hours of the morning and sometimes in the middle of the night. Windows are open because it's hot and you're a fucking asshole. (Last edited by Rogue on 08-13-16 01:28 PM) |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 622 days Last activity: 431 days |
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| It was a lateral transfer. I took the same position I had at my old center. I applied for the case manager position, which would have come with more responsibility, a couple dollars more an hour pay, and yeah, it looks better on a resume. This current boss I have told me she'd filled the position when I asked on her offering me activities coordinator. She lied to me. That new CM position was never filled and still isn't.
The "bright spot" is that this job pays more than my last one. The darkness in which that brightness dwells is the fact that I'm at the same pay rate I was with my old center. I'm just doing more hours to the point that I'm getting overtime every week. Thing is, I can't just clock-out when it's time to leave. Sometimes I'm kept way later for one reason or another. They suddenly wanted to hold a meeting, telling me just as I was headed out the door and kept us there 'til 6:45 (we clock out at 5:15) and Brandon was waiting in the parking lot to give me a ride home. I've also been asked to take work home and do it because they won't tell me about this work sooner and have ridiculous deadlines and a shortage of available computers to even tackle said work whilst AT WORK. Why this job also blows: my boss, a fairly new program director as far as I can tell since my old boss and my mom (who's been with the company 20 years) have never heard of her, really sucks at even the most basic things this center requires. For one, there is NO LAW getting laid down. The clients may as well be getting away with murder. A male client PUNCHED one of my female co-workers really hard in the chest on Tuesday. Boss hasn't even done more than acknowledge that the incident happened (my old boss would have not only talked with the guy, she would have dragged his parents into the office along with her boss and his counselor from the regional center, and then put him on suspension for at least the rest of the week) and allowed the guy to return (AND HE WAS PUT WITH ME THE DAY AFTER IT HAPPENED.) I had another client threatening another and make like he was about to attack him. I grabbed him from behind and held him back while he flailed at the other, shouting death threats. Boss was more concerned I'd laid hands on him at all. It seriously goes on and on. No consequences means no stopping of behaviors, something we're supposed to train the clients to eventually lessen over time. And her boss isn't any better. I went to him yesterday, since my boss was out all day, regarding a client's eloping and constant noncompliance and he pretty much went, "OK. Thanks for telling me," and then gave me a head-tilting signal to show myself out. And client behaviors aren't the only thing not getting punished. One of my co-workers, who fancies himself the alpha male around here (doesn't help that his mother is a higher up at corporate) is also a bully. I brought up some of his bullshit to my boss whose response was, "Did you talk with him first? You should really initiate that dialogue," essentially telling me to handle this myself and that if I can't solve my own problems with a bully how could I possibly be good at helping these people I've been hired to assist. Three weeks I've done so far. Feels like I've already been here a couple months. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 622 days Last activity: 431 days |
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| Christ, I hate my job. There aren't enough vans, so my boss has us take public transportation in the heat. It also means having to actually plan times much more closely. The other option is walking, which also sucks.
The other day she got mad with me because I had the clients return to the center early after playing tennis in the 102 degree heat like she wanted. There was no shade and they were dying. Anyway, it's been sweltering and my job blows. Not having a great summer. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 622 days Last activity: 431 days |
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| They've got me doing AC sheets at home over the weekend, but I'm still trying to make the most of the weekend.
Happy I got to hang out with wolves last Sunday. Happy we were able to sneak off and watch the entirety of "The Tempest" performed in Griffith Park and then get back to our friends' band's show just in time to watch them go on and not have to wait through anything else. Happy we went to the opening night for "Titus Andronicus" at Theatricum Botanicum last Saturday. Not so happy so many people laughed through the scene leading up to Lavinia's rape, even laughing when she was dragged off stage.  Still, happy they were able to successfully transition some of the male roles to female, so Marcus, Lucius, Mutius became Marcia, Lucia, and Mutia respectively.
Happy there's a few more weekends of fun coming up. (Last edited by Rogue on 08-10-16 10:01 AM) |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 622 days Last activity: 431 days |
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| I hate my job. I hate it so much. Working at home off-the-clock again. The last two times I took work home were completely fruitless in that my boss told me to essentially redo them or the thing I spent way too much time doing activity sheets for was fucking canceled in some way.
I'm not sure if I'll last the rest of the three months before just flat out giving my notice and leave the company entirely. I've felt physically ill the past two Monday mornings and I feel no relief on Friday afternoons. Weekends are spent mentally in turmoil, thinking about how much I hate this place. I'm glad you're at least in a better place, Xeo. And I feel you on the passage of time thing. My first year at my old job flew by so quickly. This is dragging ass. Feels like I've already been here months. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 622 days Last activity: 431 days |
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| Wow, reading about all the reality TV 26-year-old me used to watch makes me really appreciate all the good TV we've got now. There really aren't ANY reality shows I watch these days other than "RuPaul's Drag Race" when it's on. I haven't really watched "Face Off" in a while, and that one is entirely drama-free.
So guilty pleasure these days? Nothing that I'm really ashamed to admit. I guess the only thing close would be the fact that I look for "Much Ado About Nothing" fan art all the time and occasionally read what fan fiction I can find. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 622 days Last activity: 431 days |
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I have lately been drinking coffee like it's some sort of Olympic sport I'm training for. I need it so bad just to make it through the long hours of this job. I've caught myself starting to doze while driving. 
Seriously, though, I'm averaging two large iced coffees a day from the McDonald's across the street and occasionally picking up more from the gas station next door. Also been obsessively attending Shakespeare plays this year, more so than last. Have seen "Richard III," "The Tempest," "The Devil's Bride" (a bad fan-written sequel to "Much Ado About Nothing"), "Titus Andronicus," a Pokemon Go take on "Romeo and Juliet," "Othello," a play explaining the history connecting the plays "Richard II," the Henrys (IV parts 1 and 2, V, and VI parts 1, 2, and 3), and "Richard III," and we're seeing "Much Ado About Nothing" tomorrow night and see "Cymbeline" next week. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 622 days Last activity: 431 days |
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| I didn't consider it rubbing anything in. You ate more than your fair share of shit and then found something better. It's the just the way of finding things that work for you, just like the rest of us need to.
Yesterday at work was just further proof I need to get the fuck out of this place. Our program director wants to maintain this utopia that the clients can be free to roam around the center because, woo, they're all so independent. I was trained to maintain supervision at all times, and she keeps telling me it's unnecessary. We had a fire drill. Instead of going out with the rest of us and walking to the other side of the building, one of the clients left the program and walked across the street to buy soda at the Dollar Tree. He wasn't originally with his group because he's one of the ones who just wanders around the center and it's all hunky-dory. They also assembled this "dream team" for me to go out with yesterday, comprised of two elopers (clients who wander and run away) and three that are quick to threaten physical violence and attack others. For the most part, we just rolled with it even though we inevitably had issues here and there. Two started to fight right as we were getting to the vans, for fuck's sake. Boss wouldn't change it at all, even when one of the clients asked me to take him to her to voice his concern for this group structure. She tells him, "Well, you need to challenge yourself and see how well you can do in such an environment. You're going to have a good day, OK?" Really looking forward to being re-absorbed by my old center. Less money and a further commute, but at least I'd be back to carpooling with my mom (which I really missed doing) and hanging out in the South Bay after work. Not to mention being back with all my old clients and co-workers, whom I missed terribly. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 622 days Last activity: 431 days |
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| Had to cross out the Much Ado mention. The director nearly ran me over while I was standing in line outside the venue, yadda yadda yadda, I'm getting a refund from Goldstar after the play was canceled.
Happy my friend and I traded info, so now we've got Netflix and she's got HBO Now. |
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