Are Unions people?

[Soggy in NOLA]

Wow... another stellar and unprovable post by auto... yeah, I believe ya, slick. Come do my job for a month.

You need for someone to come take ten breaks a day?

Seriously... come do my job for a month... I bet you are fired within the first two weeks.

What pray tell do you do?

 

[Steelplate]

I work with the developmentally disabled. You basically have two choices where I work.

You see, because of privatization in my field... all of the "good" ones(physically capable, emotionally stable and only mildly disabled intellectually) have been scarfed up by their home counties. We have what is left, which brings us to the two choices....

1. Completely disabled physically. You must do everything for them. Dress them, feed them, wipe their asses etc. Sounds like a Nursing home, right? Wrong. We are a Training Facility, so that means you also have to provide 5 hours of training in a work day.

A typical day Shift day with this choice looks something like this: You are responsible for 6-8 people in your group.

6AM-7:30AM: Start work... look over the 24 hour report to make sure there aren't any Medical Changes to the people you are responsible for. If not, get started... start by changing diapers and applying your topical treatments, take TPR'S(Temperature/Pulse/Respiration)as needed, and getting your people dressed for the day. Remember, these people are basically infants in Adult bodies... so they may or may not get combative with you... so even doing these basic things are not as easy as it sounds.

7:30-9:00 You must have them ready by 7:30, because by this time the LPN comes in and administers morning medications. One of the staff on the Living area must accompany the LPN to identify the individual and to assist in pouring water... let's assume that's you today(it rotates). You must be done by 7:15 to set up the Med Cart that you will be pushing around. When Meds are complete, then it's time for breakfast. You will have to hand feed all your people and most of them suffer from dysphagia(inability to swallow correctly), so it's slow going. You must be done with Breakfast by 9:00 because then it's time for your first round of....

9:00-11:00PM: Training. You will try to teach these people menial tasks... the way you do it is to start at the very beginning... what's the first thing to tying a shoe? OK... since you don't really understand how it works, the first thing is to be able to tolerate holding a shoelace... this is how basic you are working with. Now when you are doing this, you are in a general Training area.. which means you pushed your 6-8 people in wheelchairs to the training area(which I forgot to mention). In the Training Area, you will be working with the whole living area as a group(24-32 people), this provides coverage so that you can go get your 15 minute break(smoke 'em if ya got 'em). After you get back, you continue to assist with training(according to each person's training plan) until 10:00... in which(if you got your 1st break first...which we'll say you did) you will go to lunch(1/2 hour). You get back from lunch and it's time to wheel them back to the Living Area. Oh yeah, I forgot to add... you will check and change your people's diapers as needed while you are down there.

11:00-12:30: Back on Living Area. Get the folks out of their wheelchairs and into their beds one at a time and change their diapers(if they weren't changed downstairs in the Training Area). If their clothing is soiled(leak through/poop through)... change their clothes(again) too. While you're doing this, you will also apply their afternoon topical treatments(scheduled for noon, but you have 1 hour leeway on either side of noon)

12:30-1:30PM. Feed your people lunch.. same as Breakfast.

1:30-2:00PM. Wheel them back down to the training area to start PM training.

2:00PM... 2nd Shift arrives, you go back up on the Living Area and do your paperwork....Clock out at 2:30PM.

That was option A... which is what I did until I blew out my back in 2006 and needed a 3 level fusion done. Now I decided to go with option B.

The daily schedule is pretty much the same... the difference is the people you work with. Option B is working with More physically capable people(always) and perhaps more intellectually capable(depending on where you work) The difference is behavioral. This is where you( on at least an every couple of day basis) are kicked, punched, slapped, spit on, scratched... and in our most capable people(in addition to the above) get cussed out(quite well, I might add) and if they are really pissed off.. will go to your supervisor and say "he hit me"... which means you get taken off the living area, interrogated thoroughly and given an alternate work assignment until the entire investigation is complete(usually 3-4 weeks doing whatever shit work they can find you).

here's the kicker....You are NEVER allowed to retaliate in any form...verbally, physically or emotionally. There are no consequences for their actions imposed because they are the disabled people and they have their rights. You have none... except for Union representation when you are accused.

Sound good? I am not exaggerating on any of this. However, what I am not telling you is about the relationships you develop with these people...and that's what keeps you coming back. Over time, you learn how to deal with these folk. You realize that they are quick to love and quick to hate and you can't take their outbursts and even their false accusations personally. They are brain damaged people. You learn to love them.

Edit: I forgot to give you your work schedule. It's a 6 week schedule that looks something like this...
S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F
O O X X X X O X X X X O X X X X O X X X X O O X X X X O XX X O O X X X X O O X X X

O=Off X= Work. There are holidays (10)but you work most of them, it's a 24/7 facility and coverage must be maintained. If you work a holiday, you get time and a half for the day, plus you get another day off in it's place... alternating thursdays and Fridays are "Stack Days" where all three rotations are working...those are your best bets to take those holidays off. If a holiday falls on your breakday, you take the holiday on the breakday and they assign you an alternate breakday(on one of the stack days).

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

I work with the developmentally disabled. You basically have two choices where I work.

You see, because of privatization in my field... all of the "good" ones(physically capable, emotionally stable and only mildly disabled intellectually) have been scarfed up by their home counties. We have what is left, which brings us to the two choices....

1. Completely disabled physically. You must do everything for them. Dress them, feed them, wipe their asses etc. Sounds like a Nursing home, right? Wrong. We are a Training Facility, so that means you also have to provide 5 hours of training in a work day.

A typical day Shift day with this choice looks something like this: You are responsible for 6-8 people in your group.

6AM-7:30AM: Start work... look over the 24 hour report to make sure there aren't any Medical Changes to the people you are responsible for. If not, get started... start by changing diapers and applying your topical treatments, take TPR'S(Temperature/Pulse/Respiration)as needed, and getting your people dressed for the day. Remember, these people are basically infants in Adult bodies... so they may or may not get combative with you... so even doing these basic things are not as easy as it sounds.

7:30-9:00 You must have them ready by 7:30, because by this time the LPN comes in and administers morning medications. One of the staff on the Living area must accompany the LPN to identify the individual and to assist in pouring water... let's assume that's you today(it rotates). You must be done by 7:15 to set up the Med Cart that you will be pushing around. When Meds are complete, then it's time for breakfast. You will have to hand feed all your people and most of them suffer from dysphagia(inability to swallow correctly), so it's slow going. You must be done with Breakfast by 9:00 because then it's time for your first round of....

9:00-11:00PM: Training. You will try to teach these people menial tasks... the way you do it is to start at the very beginning... what's the first thing to tying a shoe? OK... since you don't really understand how it works, the first thing is to be able to tolerate holding a shoelace... this is how basic you are working with. Now when you are doing this, you are in a general Training area.. which means you pushed your 6-8 people in wheelchairs to the training area(which I forgot to mention). In the Training Area, you will be working with the whole living area as a group(24-32 people), this provides coverage so that you can go get your 15 minute break(smoke 'em if ya got 'em). After you get back, you continue to assist with training(according to each person's training plan) until 10:00... in which(if you got your 1st break first...which we'll say you did) you will go to lunch(1/2 hour). You get back from lunch and it's time to wheel them back to the Living Area. Oh yeah, I forgot to add... you will check and change your people's diapers as needed while you are down there.

11:00-12:30: Back on Living Area. Get the folks out of their wheelchairs and into their beds one at a time and change their diapers(if they weren't changed downstairs in the Training Area). If their clothing is soiled(leak through/poop through)... change their clothes(again) too. While you're doing this, you will also apply their afternoon topical treatments(scheduled for noon, but you have 1 hour leeway on either side of noon)

12:30-1:30PM. Feed your people lunch.. same as Breakfast.

1:30-2:00PM. Wheel them back down to the training area to start PM training.

2:00PM... 2nd Shift arrives, you go back up on the Living Area and do your paperwork....Clock out at 2:30PM.

That was option A... which is what I did until I blew out my back in 2006 and needed a 3 level fusion done. Now I decided to go with option B.

The daily schedule is pretty much the same... the difference is the people you work with. Option B is working with More physically capable people(always) and perhaps more intellectually capable(depending on where you work) The difference is behavioral. This is where you( on at least an every couple of day basis) are kicked, punched, slapped, spit on, scratched... and in our most capable people(in addition to the above) get cussed out(quite well, I might add) and if they are really pissed off.. will go to your supervisor and say "he hit me"... which means you get taken off the living area, interrogated thoroughly and given an alternate work assignment until the entire investigation is complete(usually 3-4 weeks doing whatever shit work they can find you).

here's the kicker....You are NEVER allowed to retaliate in any form...verbally, physically or emotionally. There are no consequences for their actions imposed because they are the disabled people and they have their rights. You have none... except for Union representation when you are accused.

Sound good? I am not exaggerating on any of this. However, what I am not telling you is about the relationships you develop with these people...and that's what keeps you coming back. Over time, you learn how to deal with these folk. You realize that they are quick to love and quick to hate and you can't take their outbursts and even their false accusations personally. They are brain damaged people. You learn to love them.

Well, I admire what you do. I couldn't do it. I sometimes volunteer at a nursing home on weekends, that's tough enough to deal with.

And your training for this job is what?

 

[BoycottTheday]

Sounds like a cake walk compared to driving taxi's, lets see, pick up crackhead, who shoots me in the back for $5, plug hole, hose the car out from all the blood...want me to go on?

 

[Steelplate]

I work with the developmentally disabled. You basically have two choices where I work.

You see, because of privatization in my field... all of the "good" ones(physically capable, emotionally stable and only mildly disabled intellectually) have been scarfed up by their home counties. We have what is left, which brings us to the two choices....

1. Completely disabled physically. You must do everything for them. Dress them, feed them, wipe their asses etc. Sounds like a Nursing home, right? Wrong. We are a Training Facility, so that means you also have to provide 5 hours of training in a work day.

A typical day Shift day with this choice looks something like this: You are responsible for 6-8 people in your group.

6AM-7:30AM: Start work... look over the 24 hour report to make sure there aren't any Medical Changes to the people you are responsible for. If not, get started... start by changing diapers and applying your topical treatments, take TPR'S(Temperature/Pulse/Respiration)as needed, and getting your people dressed for the day. Remember, these people are basically infants in Adult bodies... so they may or may not get combative with you... so even doing these basic things are not as easy as it sounds.

7:30-9:00 You must have them ready by 7:30, because by this time the LPN comes in and administers morning medications. One of the staff on the Living area must accompany the LPN to identify the individual and to assist in pouring water... let's assume that's you today(it rotates). You must be done by 7:15 to set up the Med Cart that you will be pushing around. When Meds are complete, then it's time for breakfast. You will have to hand feed all your people and most of them suffer from dysphagia(inability to swallow correctly), so it's slow going. You must be done with Breakfast by 9:00 because then it's time for your first round of....

9:00-11:00PM: Training. You will try to teach these people menial tasks... the way you do it is to start at the very beginning... what's the first thing to tying a shoe? OK... since you don't really understand how it works, the first thing is to be able to tolerate holding a shoelace... this is how basic you are working with. Now when you are doing this, you are in a general Training area.. which means you pushed your 6-8 people in wheelchairs to the training area(which I forgot to mention). In the Training Area, you will be working with the whole living area as a group(24-32 people), this provides coverage so that you can go get your 15 minute break(smoke 'em if ya got 'em). After you get back, you continue to assist with training(according to each person's training plan) until 10:00... in which(if you got your 1st break first...which we'll say you did) you will go to lunch(1/2 hour). You get back from lunch and it's time to wheel them back to the Living Area. Oh yeah, I forgot to add... you will check and change your people's diapers as needed while you are down there.

11:00-12:30: Back on Living Area. Get the folks out of their wheelchairs and into their beds one at a time and change their diapers(if they weren't changed downstairs in the Training Area). If their clothing is soiled(leak through/poop through)... change their clothes(again) too. While you're doing this, you will also apply their afternoon topical treatments(scheduled for noon, but you have 1 hour leeway on either side of noon)

12:30-1:30PM. Feed your people lunch.. same as Breakfast.

1:30-2:00PM. Wheel them back down to the training area to start PM training.

2:00PM... 2nd Shift arrives, you go back up on the Living Area and do your paperwork....Clock out at 2:30PM.

That was option A... which is what I did until I blew out my back in 2006 and needed a 3 level fusion done. Now I decided to go with option B.

The daily schedule is pretty much the same... the difference is the people you work with. Option B is working with More physically capable people(always) and perhaps more intellectually capable(depending on where you work) The difference is behavioral. This is where you( on at least an every couple of day basis) are kicked, punched, slapped, spit on, scratched... and in our most capable people(in addition to the above) get cussed out(quite well, I might add) and if they are really pissed off.. will go to your supervisor and say "he hit me"... which means you get taken off the living area, interrogated thoroughly and given an alternate work assignment until the entire investigation is complete(usually 3-4 weeks doing whatever shit work they can find you).

here's the kicker....You are NEVER allowed to retaliate in any form...verbally, physically or emotionally. There are no consequences for their actions imposed because they are the disabled people and they have their rights. You have none... except for Union representation when you are accused.

Sound good? I am not exaggerating on any of this. However, what I am not telling you is about the relationships you develop with these people...and that's what keeps you coming back. Over time, you learn how to deal with these folk. You realize that they are quick to love and quick to hate and you can't take their outbursts and even their false accusations personally. They are brain damaged people. You learn to love them.

Well, I admire what you do. I couldn't do it. I sometimes volunteer at a nursing home on weekends, that's tough enough to deal with.

And your training for this job is what?

Let's see, about 10 weeks of in house training..... and 23 years of Experience.

 

[Steelplate]

Sounds like a cake walk compared to driving taxi's, lets see, pick up crackhead, who shoots me in the back for $5, plug hole, hose the car out from all the blood...want me to go on?

Is that what you do? Drive a Cab?

 

[Steelplate]

Bump.... so, is that what you do? Drive a cab?

If so, how many times have you been shot?

 

[BoycottTheday]

What? After the chit you've talked your going to find out lack of respect is what you deserve.

Your story might get some to feel sorry for you, while i personnaly know those who do your very job and are very thankful to have the job and its the best thing to ever happen to them.

Specifics arnt a right of yours, have a nice night, sounds like you get to sleep every night, ive done jobs that dint allow the luxury.

 

[Steelplate]

What? After the chit you've talked your going to find out lack of respect is what you deserve.

Your story might get some to feel sorry for you, while i personnaly know those who do your very job and are very thankful to have the job and its the best thing to ever happen to them.

Specifics arnt a right of yours, have a nice night, sounds like you get to sleep every night, ive done jobs that dint allow the luxury.

A lack of respect??? WTF? Where? I challenged you to do my job for a month and predicted that you'd be fired within that time(actually, I think I said two weeks).

You throw this cab thing out.. so how many times have you been shot? I'm betting never, and no... I'm not comparing dicks here. I'm just saying that you ***** shooting off like you know what the hell you're talking about ought to get a ******* grip.

You want to talk about a lack of respect? Take a good look at the typical Right wing Fascist Freak post and tell me that's showing a fellow American respect. You want respect, but you don't want to give it....

so I'll tell you what... I am going to assume that you are a disgruntled, out of work 20-something that want someone to blame for your woes... so you sit and masturbate to FOX News and come on here and **** with Hard working Americans, accusing them of collecting welfare... when it's probably just the opposite is true.

The truth is, I do love my job... but that doesn't mean it's a cakewalk. I gave you a very real and accurate description of my day. But honesty on a message board is something YOU and YOUR ilk can't handle.... so you deflect and feign hurt feelings because you can't handle truth.

 

[BoycottTheday]

You are so filled will envy of others you will support socialism to take from others what you cant seem to get for yourself.

And the left speaks about greed, in your post right there its clear you are the greedy one, who blames everyones success for the life you have to live.

Imagine what you will about me, its your problem to have put that much energy into hate.

Put that energy into making your life better, for i havnt wasted one moment of my life imagining anything about you.

My dreams are about me and the ones i love, have a nice life.

 

[Steelplate]

You are so filled will envy of others you will support socialism to take from others what you cant seem to get for yourself.

And the left speaks about greed, in your post right there its clear you are the greedy one, who blames everyones success for the life you have to live.

Imagine what you will about me, its your problem to have put that much energy into hate.

Put that energy into making your life better, for i havnt wasted one moment of my life imagining anything about you.

My dreams are about me and the ones i love, have a nice life.

How respectful of you....

What's your success? I have yet to hear it. I have no envy... I'm just curious. I had a great Conversation with Jarhead the other day and found out that he helps others start small businesses and he makes 300k/year, and he treats his employees well... I am happy for him.

You just can't stand anyone with a differing opinion than you so you belittle them and try to make them feel small... when you are actually called out(like I did) you run away and deflect some more. Personally, I don't care whether you dig ditches or run a multinational...You are my fellow American. But your hatred runs so deep that I am only the "enemy" to you.

 

[BoycottTheday]

Once again specifics arnt your right, i will tell you what i tell you, like it or not thats all you will get.

 

[Steelplate]

run away little boy...that's what you are... Arnt you?

 

[BoycottTheday]

Dr Savage is right, liberalism is a mental disorder.

 

[Steelplate]

Dr Savage is right, liberalism is a mental disorder.

Well, if that's true... then Conservatism is the mindset of the weak who want to be strong... just like you.

 

[BoycottTheday]

Do you take drugs by chance?

 

[Steelplate]

No... but I do work for a living, unlike you.

I'll tell you what. You make a decent post and I'll call off the feud. Simple as that. Stop with the bullshit bully tactics... that only shows you and 3/4 of all the Conservatives' post on this board... they have no ideas other than ideological(Cut taxes vs. raise taxes, pro life vs. pro choice, etc). But yet i've seen post after post.. and even thread after thread of Idiots like spewing garbage like "liberals don't work for a living.. they just take a handout".

So **** it... if that's the way you want to play this idiotic game, I can do that too.

Truth of the matter is... you are a nothing.. just like me... you are a working stiff(if you're lucky) and feel that you've been taken advantage of by someone. So you Lash out at the easiest target you can find... Government. Because it's a hell of a lot easier to vote for someone else than it is to tackle the real problem. In short, you are lazy.... you'd rather blame the symptom than the cause because the cause is a formidable task that you can't handle.

Me? I'd rather die trying to fight the cause than to cower down like you assholes do.

 

[BoycottTheday]

Whats with this place and cyber stalkers, you are number two, form an orderly queue.

 

[Steelplate]

Funny how you keep responding... you know I'm right, you are just too much of a ***** to admit it.

 

[BoycottTheday]

You never played the having last word game have you