I did everything I could to help her, but I’m not allowed to do very much unless I want to be brutalised myself.
Thank god for the one supervisor who acted like she and I as the worker serving her were actual humans of value and not just pains in the asses
I hate this system and this institution so so so so so so so so so so so so much. The money IS there to boost the fuck out of welfare. Let me give you one teeny tiny example: My team of 11 and I have been told we are going to get paid an extra fucking $1000 bonus EACH if we achieve a collective attendance KPI of 95% or more for the next 3 months. This as a carrot-dangle in itself disgusts me because all it’s going to do is encourage people to turn up to work sick (even if you wake up with a raging sore throat, go get a doctor’s certificate and choose to stay home, your attendance KPI — and the whole team’s — will be negatively impacted). We’re all encouraged to act sooooo proud of how much “good we’re doing” but we’re really all just fucking gatekeepers and I cannot wait to tear the fuck out of here. I feel immense guilt for even “using it as a stepping stone” to get another less ethically fucked job. Before, I *was* on welfare. If I didn’t say yes to this job, didn’t turn up to the 4 stages of interviews for it, and didn’t apply to it and submit proof of my application, I could have had my welfare payments cut. The ironic evil of this is not at all lost on me. But yes, it’s true— <<the institution>> really are all dogs by the very nature of what the institution currently is and how it currently functions. And I will never ever ever get defensive / mad at anyone, any recipient, who says as much.
