u/FrootiLooni

Title basically, im a primarily in-home RBT on two cases, one case I been on pretty much since I was hired on at my company in October, which I started on this case in November once I earned my RBT in the same month. The second case I started I want to say back in February/March after my BCBA recommended me to join on due to her having done the assessment for that case and having needed a RBT she trusted at the time with a matching availability for that client. While I was honored by this and am very happy by the progress I have made for both clients, I feel like I am starting to hit burn out. Sure, I make progress thats measurable by the data, I come in mostly on time, I communicate when Im late or need to reschedule/need to cancel, I complete more if not all my clients goals during session and if I can't Im managing behaviors. But despite my successes I just feel... bored and even annoyed sometimes? Which I hate to say because my clients are amazing and I have had absolutely no issues working with them and one of my clients parents. If anything at most, its been issues with one clients parents which are mostly just minor like not following the programming. But I feel like that comes with any in-home RBT situation.

Any help with making sessions more fun/not feeling like this? I am going on a trip in June for about a month after my semester ends to see my partner so perhaps I just need a break to refresh and reset. Plus one of my clients are having authorization issues with insurance meeting there's a possibility I might not see them anymore, or at the least services will get delayed. So I feel especially guilty for feeling this way with this real possibility.

Don't really need advice as there isn't much I can do. For context, my company does this thing called "gems" where for everytime you get a shout out, you get a gem to enter into a raffle for a chance to a win a gift card. Only found this out yesterday and my BCBA claimed the prize is a 25$ giftcard yet at the least shes forgotten our RBT ethics code/BACB policy only allowed financial gifts of 10$, at the most she might/the company might be lying? Shes a amazing BCBA don't get me wrong, but what is fishy to me is when my BCBA ran a goal for her supervisees chat im in for us one time to our RBT hours tracker completed she said she would give us a 25$ giftcard. Yet when I won for having my tracker completed, she only gave me 10$. No big deal as obviously 10$ is better then nothing and I ended up just using it on a Amazon order for some bath stuff I needed.

But then the first opportunity she ran for us in the same chat, she said if we responses/emoji reacted to all her messages showing we read them, she would let us choose a 20$ gift item for our clients... sure enough the clients did indeed get a 20$ gift item of our choice. Again I didn't mind, I want my clients to have stimuli they like! I chose some musical toys. What makes it funnier is my company also gifts you a 10$ giftcard on your birthday, which I would know as they gave me a 10$ Walmart gift card.

These opportunities ran by my BCBA are separate from the Gems raffle, as these are done by my BCBA to motivate her supervisees strictly, I only point them out however to establish a pattern of behavior of saying one, higher amount but only giving the RBTS a lower amount afterwords. I also mentioned zero cancelations and always converting sessions, this is because my company is giving out double gems, or opportunities to win the raffle for the "25$ giftcard" by not ever canceling sessions for the month and always converting on time by the end of the day. As apparently my company is monitoring this, especially for in home RBTS like me as their running a 3 cancelations or less program where you can also supposedly win vacations, giftcards, etc in another, separate raffle? They said they would send our a survey for us to pick prizes with more details about this program coming soon which is funny considering it started in March.

But Im skeptical, wouldn't this go against the RBT ethics code techincally? And just kinda ethics in general of telling RBTS one amount but giving them the 10$ amount? I don't care as I know in our ethics code is 10$, if anything my issue is not being upfront about it in the first place if its not accident. Especially since a vacation for example is way more then 10$, and considering the low amount of details I am almost suspecting to a degree their keeping it under wraps on purpose to just try to make RBTS cancel less and make sure they just convert more?

As someone whos worked retail previously, I never have really liked raffles/competitions like this. The prizes are never a guaranteed or even high chance thing, especially when in my company's case your competing against mutiple in home RBTS/center RBTS in the case of some of these raffles/In home RBT raffle programs across one region in the County. Im not against doing my job right and I take pride in helping my disabled, autistic clients grow and learn new skills. But at least the challenges my BCBA presents almost always has a chance of giving me prizes. These competitions never are reinforcing and give me the belief that they contribute to RBT burnout as it makes RBTS only work harder and chase more for something so out of reach usually.