I also worked in a facility that sounds exactly like yours. No matter how bad a day I've had at a job since then, it's never been worse than the every day type of stress from that job. It didn't help that we were severely understaffed, and my one coworker (2:14 ratio of staff:residents) was an alcoholic who refused to enforce any restrictions the kids earned during the week. Basically they could do whatever they wanted without fear of repercussions
On one hand it sucked, because almost all the kids had horrible parents, and it was hard to blame them for acting the way they did sometimes. On the other hand, a lot of them were just straight up assholes and would shit on you given the chance no matter how much you tried to help them.
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I also worked in a facility that sounds exactly like yours. No matter how bad a day I've had at a job since then, it's never been worse than the every day type of stress from that job. It didn't help that we were severely understaffed, and my one coworker (2:14 ratio of staff:residents) was an alcoholic who refused to enforce any restrictions the kids earned during the week. Basically they could do whatever they wanted without fear of repercussions
On one hand it sucked, because almost all the kids had horrible parents, and it was hard to blame them for acting the way they did sometimes. On the other hand, a lot of them were just straight up assholes and would shit on you given the chance no matter how much you tried to help them.
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