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Healthcare Worker Who Doesn’t Hate Working, But Hates The Job

I work for a disability service center, specifically the residential department. I work two locations, one location I interact with the client, and while there’s not much “work” per say, I’m still spending time with them and they always look forward to seeing me. Location 2 is a lot more of a care place, and again, that’s also completely fine. There are times where nothing happens, like if our client is asleep/napping, and to higher ups/advisors, they see that as a time to do a bunch of other work not related to them. And sure, doing residential cleaning, laundry, that’s still in our job description. But you cannot expect us to find work if we’ve done our damn jobs. And it’s not the workers that have an issue with anything, it’s only those with “experience” who try to change everything we were trained on to be their way, or higher…


I work for a disability service center, specifically the residential department. I work two locations, one location I interact with the client, and while there’s not much “work” per say, I’m still spending time with them and they always look forward to seeing me. Location 2 is a lot more of a care place, and again, that’s also completely fine. There are times where nothing happens, like if our client is asleep/napping, and to higher ups/advisors, they see that as a time to do a bunch of other work not related to them. And sure, doing residential cleaning, laundry, that’s still in our job description. But you cannot expect us to find work if we’ve done our damn jobs. And it’s not the workers that have an issue with anything, it’s only those with “experience” who try to change everything we were trained on to be their way, or higher ups because our “non profit” group has no money yet those that work front desk can afford quite a lot of fancy shit and are perfectly ok with gossiping personal details about clients in public. I love working with my clients, spending time with them is amazing. Because it never feels like a job. When you start throwing other things at us, and start trying to make our lives hell so you can go ahead and have a power trip? That’s when there’s an issue. I plan on staying with this job for a bit, but if things keep getting worse, which they are, they’re aware that a massive walk out will happen.

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