They did me so dirty
I've been looking thru a lot of posts on here taking about feeling burnt out from working as DSP. Initially, I did feel it the first month after working in the group home, but now they've pushed me to my limit. This company is work for is so shitty and they just did me dirty.
Let me start by saying there are 4 women in the house, 2 of them have the worst behavior issues. The house manager told me that they essentially had the minds of 4 year old children and they wanted attention. I've only worked there for 4 months on the weekends, and every time I would come in, one woman would be up and the behavior would be crying, screaming, throwing things, trying to rip things out of the wall because "she's afraid of hell" and scared of graveyards. The other woman is rude and says things that make no sense, like "I'm glad my baby died cause I don't like when babies cry". That sort of stuff. The other two aren't as bad, but they're can be very rude at times.
All of the women have bad habits of not respecting the rules when it's my shift. They're good for the house manger and evening/night staff when they come in, but on the weekends they "forget" that they're not supposed to do something. We have rules for them not go into the fridge, or the office without staff, they do it anyway. They aren't supposed to get more than one soda a day, I didn't know that it included Gatorade and Capri suns, so I got reprimanded for it.
They're all rude and have no spatial awareness. They will just burp and fart loudly next to people and laugh about it.
Speaking of the no spatial awareness. Recently, we had an outing going to a dollar store. One of the women tried to skip the line of two people who were waiting on line. I apologized to the people in line and brought her to the back of the line where the other women were. The other women were standing SO close to the other person that was waiting on line, and surrounding them. I noticed her inching away from them, and told them " hey, girl, let's back up some. We have to give people some space when we're in line and be polite." They said ok, and stood back. I didn't say it in a malicious or rude way, just stating that we needed to give someone space. Then we got into the van and I basically reiterated that we needed to be polite to people in line by giving them space, and that the other woman shouldn't skip the line when other people are waiting. Mind you, the van has cameras (as well as the house). I say this because the women have lied to management and told them I was mean to them and said they all skipped the line. I was shocked and confused because that same day before I clocked out, they were telling me they loved me and that they were glad to have me at the house. So you can imagine my shock.
I tell management that I would never be mean to them and my intending were to help them and if they needed to, they could look at the cameras in the van. They said they would and basically told me but to come in for my shift. Today, management got back with me and told me that their only concern was that I looked sleepy and that I looked like I was dosing off and the clients didn't want me at the house anymore. It's disheartening because I've had them at my house, and they were saying how much they loved me, then to turn around and do this. Like was i supposed to just let them stand super close the people in line or skip people and just brush it off??