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So, I work in an IRA residential house where only a handful of people live. The staff are great, the individuals are great, but one of the parents is a textbook Munchausen-style manipulator toward her child. She has a history of targeting staff. Mind you, the individual has never been in a more thriving, successful caregiving environment, yet the mother is relentless. She makes it her life’s mission to target staff she simply doesn’t like, and her comments usually have racial undertones.

I’m one of the few white people there. I don’t agree with much of anything she says, but I let her think I’m at least neutral. For whatever reason, she loves me. She calls me both on and off the clock.

Last year, she had two staff members permanently removed from the house because they went back and forth with her verbally. Suffice it to say, the whole thing was never about her child — it was about her.

At first, I was placed on administrative leave, and I recently found out that she has now officially targeted me and had me removed, even though there is absolutely nothing to substantiate any of her claims. It’s currently being called a temporary administrative move, but I can guarantee I’ll be the third person permanently removed.
I loved this location. I bid on and won my position fair and square. I give paramount attention and care to the people in this house, only to be lied about and targeted.

ent has had discussions with all of us, and everyone is on the same page about her targeting staff, yet she continues to succeed because management refuses to show any backbone. Literally DA1, DA2, DA3, TTL, and everyone above them — none of them have a backbone. Instead, they stay silent and throw hardworking staff into the meat grinder.

I never knew I could hate a job more than I hate this one. Imagine sitting there watching your subordinate get targeted and bullied, and you do absolutely nothing. You just sit back and watch. That is exactly what management has done, and then they wonder why we’ll never respect them. They wonder where this “us versus them” culture comes from. now I see why people go into this work, thinking one thing and eventually get to the point where they just go into work and do the bare minimum. Because there’s no incentive for doing anything else

It’s one thing not to back up your staff when they actually screw up, but it’s a whole different thing when you know damn well they’ve done absolutely nothing wrong and you still refuse to support them.

So I’ve been with the DDSO for about eight years, definitely have put in my time even in that short amount of eight years, I worked in very, very heavy houses with very much medical needs, worked my way up to more independent homes, now I am being targeted by the most ridiculous accusations that are not only untrue, but the polar opposite of everything about my character, the allegations are like putting a square pack into a round hole. I’ve been accused of abuse, I’ve been accused of substance use, I’ve been accused of verbally, abusing people for their sexual orientation, none of the above could be any further from the truth, suffice to say I think I have had it with this agency, I’m living proof that you could do absolutely nothing wrong and still be targeted and get in trouble. My question is what state vacancies are out there where I could transfer over to? I really don’t think I wanna work in any type of mandated reporter occupation, the weaponization of false accusations is just not manageable. I’d rather deal with daily bureaucracy than daily character assassination. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Anyone have any information on what the implications are if I take myself out of work for a month or two with
no work/no pay/no charge to accruals? Like health insurance union dues? Thinking about doing it for a month but need more info.

So I’m looking forward to my interrogation. I’m trying to decide what face I wanna use when I get to see the look of the supervisors face when she learns that her sighed sworn statement she made, that i “screamed at threatened to punch her” on specific date and shift never happened and that I can even prove it. And when they ask how I can price it, I’m going to pull out my phone and play recording I have of that entire shift. Bahahaha ! It’s rare that we as DSAs get to hold the trump card and in this case I have a role flush. I’m going to sink her fucking battleship. And then when they suspend her without pay, and permanently remove her from her jobs site I’m going to brag about it every day for weeks it’s not months. This will be not the 1st or the 2nd but the third time I will have destroyed somone in management for fabricating a lie and proved it by a detailed recording hahahahaha I’m a fucking legend!!!! Take a piece of advice from me people. Record every shift you ever work. Save it for 10 days before deleting them. Because it not matter of if. But a matter of when Somone lies. Oh and before you you say it’s illegal. It’s not.

So I got a question, in my area in my DDSO and in my region I’ve been noticing that management seems to think that when management utilizes a 104 form, which is change of assignment or change to the schedule , shift and past day that you are to SIGN the 104 form, can anybody tell me anywhere on a 104 form that they see a spot that is designated for a signature? Because I disagree there is nothing that says you’re supposed to sign a 104 form, think about it , why would you sign a form when management has the right to make changes to the schedule, (as long as it’s in line with civil service law, policy and contract) because if they are reassigning within the bounds of their ability, then there’s no reason to have to sign it, (hence why there is no signature spot). an email is the only thing they need to do or hand it to you physically but to say you have to sign It is not only redundant but I think is %100 incorrect and I find it remarkable an entire region seems to think you need to sign a form that doesn’t require signature.it even shows that you don’t need to sign it on the form. Any other feedback?