As the only male Case Manager in our program I get saddled with all the perverts.
I’m the only male case manger in our specific program across 5 counties, and somehow that has turned into “give him every inappropriate older male client.”
They try to keep most workers in 1–2 counties to cut down on drive time. Meanwhile I’m covering 4 out of the 5 counties because these cases keep getting transferred to me.
We’re Medicaid waiver and all our clients are 60+. Some of these older guys will answer the door naked or sitting in their wheelchair with just a towel over their lap. Instead of telling that CM, “Take security with you next visit,” the case gets handed off to me. We literally have two security staff whose whole job is to go on visits with people if needed.
And we only see these clients quarterly, every 90 days. It’s not like these are daily crisis visits.
What really gets me is these guys are magically never naked when I show up. So they absolutely know better and can control it when they want to.
I get why the agency does it to an extent, but it’s frustrating when the solution becomes “give it to the male worker” instead of addressing the behavior directly or using the security staff we already have. Meanwhile I’m driving from one end of God’s creation to the other because nobody else wants to deal with certain clients.