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rant about the roomates situation
Looks like things are going to be quite turbulent over the next fortnight. Unfortunately our program coordinator went on leave and she's been replaced with a new case manager 2 months into the role who works half the days the program coordinator does, while she still has to be a case manager. Naturally, that's not really how time works, so communication and advocacy has been... Lacking. (For context the program coordinator is a full time role, and the case manager should ideally be a full time role but has always been part time, usually 4 days a week)
They've decided that they want to move the new YP in on the 5th (it was meant to be pushed back until the 16th so that things would work out better), but they decided that the poor woman holding the fort is able to co-ordinate a transition from both a case manager and coordination perspective on 3 days a week ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Unfortunately because of several communication breakdowns, the lead tenant that's still here is realllly pissed off and has decided to move out a month early and is now going to leave on the 3rd which is going to be interesting. They really can't move anybody in without a lead tenant, but it's about a 50/50 as to whether they're going to push it back until the next one moves in, or they'll try and put support workers here every day.
I know support workers don't sound that bad, but because this is an independent program, the "support" workers just fall asleep on the couch and play flappy birds on their phones, and fuck around with the damn air con. It's also really uncomfortable having a stranger sleeping on your couch.
Also I'm off to Mildura from the 6th-11th, so I don't know whether that works out good or bad for me. I guess it means old mate will get a few days to acclimate to the new environment without me in the way, but also feels like it might be a cluster fuck.
I have mixed feelings about it all. It hasn't quite hit me yet, but I've been through worse, so I guess this isn't that bad. At the end of the day, I don't have a choice though. If shit hits the fan I don't have anywhere to bail to, I'll be going down with the ship. So I guess there's some level of comfort in that - I can't do shit about it, so there's not much use worrying about it. But logic isn't how emotions and feelings work ยฏ\_โ (โ ใโ )โ _โ /โ ยฏ
^ This + 14 degrees in my room = no sleep
wow that's sounds like a clusterduck. I hope it remains a vaguely stable place for you despite everyone else's mess. Please vent all you need here.
Yep. It's gonna be interesting. I guess with the LT leaving before the new YP moves in screws over my organisation though so that's kinda funny. If they delay it, they'll miss out on a couple of weeks of placement subsidy, or if they have to pay workers they're not going to make very much profit from his placement
Yeah, every organisation I interact with seems to have all the same issues - everyone is stretched too thin. Not that community care was ever not stretched. Hopefully you can sit back and watch it play out.
It's absolutely ridiculous. Most people don't last 2 years. Part of that's no doubt due to the type of work they're doing, but I'd say burnout is probably the main cause