I’m a direct care worker for a special needs school and residential facility. We see and deal with some really messed up stuff but the students we work with are amazing people and they keep the morale alive more than anything. The place has been severely understaffed for more than a year now. The solution according to administrators is to send a company wide email every week detailing how many call ins there were for both weekday and weekend shifts.
The last email said: The school had two days this week with NO CALL INS!!
It just seems wrong and guilt trippy to me. We work with people who can have serious issues and needs. This can be very taxing and like of course people are going to call in sick or with mental stuff to get over. Understaffing isn’t the responsibility of the workers. By the way, I only make $16/hour and so do the majority of my colleagues.