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SonofZ3:
Dear Blog Thread
The company my mother works for is having a hard time finding people to fill needed positions. This is in a town with fairly high unemployment rates, and the jobs do not require a college degree. All you have to do is have a highschool diploma/ GED, driver's license, and pass a drug test. Most people fail the drug test. My feelings on drug use aside, why can't these assholes stop using for long enough to get a job? It frustrates me that people I graduated with bitch about not being able to work when things are like this. The job is providing basic care for people with mental illnesses. Cooking dinner, watching movies, maybe taking them somewhere for a night out... Its dissapointing when people choose laziness over working, especially when the job in question isn't particularly physically or mentally demanding.

0bsessions:
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whooooooooooooooooooooooa.

I am going to stop you right there.

Everyone here who knows shit about shit about me knows that I spent my entire life growing up with a mentally ill sister. While I can understand the fact the not being able to hold off on drugs long enough to pass a test for a job is idiotic, you are completely off base in the assumption that working with the mentally ill in any capacity is not particularly physically or mentally demanding, to the point that I'm borderline offended.

I personally witnessed some of the horror stories my sister has put some mental health professionals through, up to and including people who merely had to drive her from point A to point B. Having to ferry a bipolar kid, an autistic kid and a kid with both plus some miscellaneous disorders is a task I would not wish upon anyone and, as someone who lived with it, I can readily admit I am not up to the task, nor is anyone who assume it's easy work.

I also have to question the competence of a company that is filling positions like this with such low requirements. Simply put, you should not be working full time with the mentally ill unless you have a degree.

SonofZ3:
I'm offended that you assume I know nothing about the individuals her company is tasked with taking care of. The clients that live in their homes are not individuals whose personal illness causes them to have behavior that could be viewed as dangerous or problematic. They just aren't able to fully take care of themselves, and many times, unfortunately, have parents and relatives that don't care enough to provide for them. When I worked for the State Parks system I would do outdoor education programs for them, and not once was there even the mildest form of difficulty.

0bsessions:
Define mental illness. As someone with a lot of experience in the matter, I'm not familiar with many mental illnesses that absolve them of the potential for an extremely high stress work environment outside of basic autism. You may have had some decent experience with it, but saying that working with the mentally ill is, by default, easy comes off as both naive and ignorant. You can be insulted all you want at my stance, because I'll admit that this once one would not be mistaken to find my attitude in this as outwardly hostile as opposed to just blunt: I find your dismissive attitude towards the difficulty of such a job personally insulting. If I had someone with that attitude involved in my sister's program, I'[d be calling for their ass on a silver platter.

KvP:
I got a package today from my dearest and oldest internets friend, who I met... 7 years ago, I think! Or it might have been 5. I'm not sure.

Hij sent me a replacement owl doll, because the one that she had originally sent me I had sent off to Andy, for our secret santa arrangement. I do not think Hij was terribly happy that I gave Kensington (that's the original, blue-colored owl) away, because Hij had made it specifically for me. But I felt that it was the right gift at the right time, and I don't regret it. I just now have to create something to give back to Hij.

Anyway, here are the contents of the package:

Also included is a ceramic snake that she made for me.

Better look at them:


And the menagerie of objects she has fashioned for me over the years, minus Kensington, who is now with Andy.


So that was nice. I keep getting unexpected things from good people (haven't yet gotten my actual Secret Santa stuff) and it's brightened up an otherwise dismal Christmas season. Huzzah!

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