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So in short, I used to work in a residential treatment facility not too long ago. I eventually parted ways there and was so upset over my experience that I practically wrote an essay about it. Now while I encourage people to read it, I realize that not everyone will. So i'll just take a few excerpts from it. quote:However, even when staff are present you will wish at times that they weren't. Some staff even make things worse. There is one particularly staff who stands out to me of being insufferable to work with. I’ll call him “Captain” because there was a period of time where he would come into work wearing a captain’s sailor hat just like Chris in Resident Evil. I can’t accurately describe just how dumb he is without someone actually being in the field. In short he riles the kids up constantly. He will argue with nine year old children who are mentally impaired over the most idiotic things. This usually revolves around “you said, I said” types of ordeals that the children commonly argue over. This will result in the kid getting pissed off and him having to call someone from the other house, usually me, to deal with situation. The reason being is that he can’t restrain many of the kids anymore because he did so too much that the higher ups have taken notice. quote:I recall a year ago I talked with some people about three kids from the facility who were going on a rampage in the community. Multiple times they left campus to do such things as steal gift cards and other products from various stores. They even went to Walmart and stole BB guns. Although not confirmed, I recall them talking about how they attempted to rob someone, though luckily it didn't turn out as planned. Despite all of this not a single thing happened to them. The closest thing they got to a “punishment” was that they couldn't go out for activities or clothing shopping, even though due to being so low staffed they were almost never taken out for these things begin with. Oh, they also had a thirty minute early bed time. That was it, that was their punishment. Everything else remained virtually unchanged. quote:I’ll call this kid “Roy”. Roy never met his real parents as he was adopted at three weeks old. The only thing Roy knew about his original parents is that they were white. His family was all black and lived in an all black neighborhood. It was complete with a mother and siblings. Throughout most of Roy’s life his mother was very caring and his family treated him well, just like he was part of the family. Unfortunately for him the mother got sick and died. He was placed into care with his oldest sister. Suddenly he stopped being treated like one of the family, and instead like a leper. His family that he once knew and loved began abusing him as they ridiculed him, took food away from him, and out right physically abused him. Keep in mind despite Roy being a teenage boy he is very small and light. He tried to fight back but his much bigger female care taker overpowered him. The people who he thought was his family, for the first thirteen years or so of his life, really hated him all along and thought he was an outsider. Today you can see just how these experiences effect him. Whenever he eats he eats very quickly and has his hand over his bowl so no one can take his food. He always tries to befriend his bullies, because from his experience he is more safe when he is always by the side of the victimizer rather than being a lone victim. As a result he is constantly a goon, a partner in crime. Much more at the link. And really this isn't even any of the more interesting stuff.
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# ? Sep 3, 2016 00:55 |
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# ? Apr 25, 2024 18:33 |
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Well, I'm not clicking on the link, so I'm just going to "take you at face value" that it was itneresting. Perhaps next thread you will consider turning your mointor on
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# ? Sep 3, 2016 01:11 |
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i learned that you can get really heavy into drugs and go to rehab and then you just kind of figure it out later
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# ? Sep 3, 2016 01:12 |
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i got in a fight with an orderly over getting a can of coke 2 minutes after he told me not to. i still have a journal i think
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# ? Sep 3, 2016 01:13 |
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authority is for pussies
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# ? Sep 3, 2016 01:13 |
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I didnt make my millions working at a residential child touching facility, but lets just say i thieved a lot of cokes and sneakers from the little tards in there
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# ? Sep 3, 2016 01:15 |
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dad gay. so what posted:i got in a fight with an orderly over getting a can of coke 2 minutes after he told me not to. i still have a journal i think you did what you had to do to survive
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# ? Sep 3, 2016 01:16 |
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Kids shouldn't do heroin or drink booze imo
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# ? Sep 3, 2016 01:22 |
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:you did what you had to do to survive i have a problem with authoriity
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# ? Sep 3, 2016 01:35 |
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dad gay. so what posted:i have a problem with authoriity no poo poo
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# ? Sep 3, 2016 01:37 |
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Do you have a tl;dr version for your tl;dr version? Asking for a friend.
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# ? Sep 3, 2016 01:46 |
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Kuato posted:Do you have a tl;dr version for your tl;dr version? Asking for a friend. Sure. quote:poo poo's hosed.
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# ? Sep 3, 2016 01:49 |
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Worked overnights in a locked unit with teenagers at a understaffed facility. So many chairs got thrown it was basically WWE. Welcome to a very special hell.
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# ? Sep 3, 2016 01:53 |
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there are a poo poo-ton of typos in that essay op
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# ? Sep 3, 2016 19:34 |
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I spent the 1st 14 yrs of my work at a forensic psychiatric center for the criminally insane. We have everything from serial killers, pyromaniacs and a couple of cannibals. So yeah i learned monsters are very real.
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# ? Sep 4, 2016 02:40 |
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punk rebel ecks posted:I'm [...] g [...] a [...] y hmm yes I see
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# ? Sep 4, 2016 03:35 |
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GORILLA BASTARD posted:I spent the 1st 14 yrs of my work at a forensic psychiatric center for the criminally insane. We have everything from serial killers, pyromaniacs and a couple of cannibals. I would seriously read an A/T thread about this.
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# ? Sep 4, 2016 03:46 |
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so you wrote a gigantic essay whining about your job edit: im sorry for being rude. im so tired Enfield fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Sep 4, 2016 |
# ? Sep 4, 2016 03:52 |
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I only read you second excerpt op but from the way you write I suspect those kids were a shitton cooler and more interesting than you. you come off as whiny and holier than thou, like maybe trying to help people isn't for you
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# ? Sep 4, 2016 04:02 |
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The other day at work I had to fix some scripts written in vbscript. Pray you never know the horror....
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# ? Sep 4, 2016 04:05 |
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State orphanage --> State prison. The circle of life!
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# ? Sep 4, 2016 04:23 |
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op learned to capitalize every word in a thread title like its a book title or proper noun or some poo poo that's what I leaned itt
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# ? Sep 4, 2016 04:24 |
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Hey I finally got around to reading the whole thing, and it was really interesting. Also extremely hosed up. I can't imagine having to deal with kids like that all day (and longer) for a job, thank god someone does it. I don't think I could deal with the older/bigger kids molesting and raping the younger ones.
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# ? Sep 4, 2016 20:35 |
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dethkon posted:Hey I finally got around to reading the whole thing, and it was really interesting. Also extremely hosed up. I can't imagine having to deal with kids like that all day (and longer) for a job, thank god someone does it. I don't think I could deal with the older/bigger kids molesting and raping the younger ones. Thank you for reading it! I gotta admit that I was starting to regret making this thread as most people in it are just dunking on it. Which is understandable being that the article is hilariously long to the point that few would ever read it. But knowing that it made some sort of an impact on you makes it worth it.
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# ? Sep 5, 2016 16:33 |
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Cymoril posted:I would seriously read an A/T thread about this.
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# ? Sep 5, 2016 16:47 |
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I might have read it if you knew how to effectively use the enter key so it's not just a big wall of text.
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# ? Sep 5, 2016 16:48 |
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:I might have read it if you knew how to effectively use the enter key so it's not just a big wall of text. The guy above says there is intra-pedo rape which sounds interesting
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# ? Sep 5, 2016 17:42 |
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I did this for 10 years and it is soul crushing and leaves you just below the poverty line as far as pay. I did meet some of my best friends working there though and learned that most people with degrees in the field sit behind closed doors and do little to nothing to impart their knowledge to the regular staff. I went into management for the last few years and found out that its actually a lot worse than working in the trenches. It was one thing to work everyday with the clients and find creative and interesting ways to still work and have fun despite crippling deficits in funding, staffing and basic everyday supplies. It sucked a lot more to be the person telling the staff that the we couldn't give them the funding, staffing and necessities that we had legally promised to provide for our staff and clients. Much respect to anybody doing this type of work. My only critique would be that you seemed to be a little hard on the kids in your essay. They are hosed from day one whereas the staff has a choice about being there. Good luck OP.
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punk rebel ecks posted:Thank you for reading it! do you even proofread your own articles for errors?
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