LJI - Season 9 - Week 1 - Jayus

[malruniel11]

KIDS *click*

Inbox *click*

55D *click*

Unit/Group *click*

My supervisor's name *click*

Jesus... it never ends."Two more in the box," I call out. "A P1 and a P2

Comments

[baxaphobia]

This is all too common. You're right. Sometimes you just have to laugh because the if you cry you might not stop.

[malruniel11]

It's a weekly, if not daily, occurance around the office. Something of our modus operandi.

[solstice_singer]

CPS work has got to be incredibly difficult. I was offered an internship when I was in grad school, but I really didn't think I could take it.

[malruniel11]

You're right, it is, and it's not for everyone. I'm glad you knew yourself well enough to make the right choice for you.

[penpusher]

I have two classmates from two different parts of my life... one is a judge in a family court and another was a lawyer in a different locale dealing with child custody and domestic issues. What little I know of their work is harrowing (the lawyer had to quit for his own mental health), but obviously not as bad as it is for the poor children that are caught up in the issues of their parents' problems.

It's really tragic that these people are so self-interested that they can't take a step back and see what they are doing, to the people who will supposedly take care of them when they get old.

[malruniel11]

I quite agree with you.

[mari4212]

Laugh or be unable to do anything to help. Not a choice that's easy to make sometimes.

[malruniel11]

Too true. It's why I'm so glad we aren't video monitored in our back office. We say and laugh at the worst stuff just to keep ourselves together. We don't mean any of it, and we're mostly decent human beings, I promise!

[mari4212]

I was an Americorps volunteer tutor at two alternative high schools a few years ago. The kids pretty much all came from horrible situations and were acting that out in the classrooms. You had to laugh at it and at the problems we were trying to deal with in addition to teaching the basics or you'd start sobbing and never stop.

[malruniel11]

I've a friend who works at an alternative high school. It's so hard. I give a lot of props to whoever can flourish in that environment, love those kids, and do them some real good.

[roina_arwen]

I'm fortunate in that I work with an Ongoing CPS team, rather than the Investigators. Either way it's tough work!

[malruniel11]

We've had a lot of our CPS members moving to Permanency Planning or Family Centered Services. The average a worker lasts in CPS is 2-3 years here in OK. It's a lot to deal with, and after that amount of time, most people move on to the less awful stuff for mental health reasons. No matter what, it's rough stuff!