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Jan. 26th, 2016 11:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotI actually went back yesterday for more cheap flat-pack furniture - a coffee table (plastic bin is getting old), a tv stand with shelves below it for more storage space, a plastic three-drawer chest for sewing supplies, and a shoe rack. Well, the last two weren't flat-pack, but you know. I think I kind of just like building furniture?
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So there is this program locally(?) for unemployed senior citizens. It's supposed to be about "training" but the real hirability problem for the participants isn't that they need the kind of training you can get on the job, it's that they've been really unlucky or have some issues. We use it to get maintenance people, and it doesn't function as a stepping stone to a full-time maintenance job elsewhere, as far as I know. Our last guy didn't really want to do maintenance and left because he loves the west coast and hates the winter here, for example.
It's been months since we had someone, and Sue and I do some of the cleaning but we also don't do other things as regularly as needs to happen. The program finally found us someone else, and since we find the placement woman kind of sketchy/flaky the fact that she didn't get on with him seemed like a good sign - kind of an enemy-of-my-enemy situation, right? He came in for an orientation/interview last week and he seemed pretty unenthusiastic. He'd clearly rather be doing something more intellectual - he mansplained at me about an un-id'd photo sitting in the office that was "probably a well-to-do family" etc. etc. obviousness - and Sue told him there might be occasional opportunities to do some research for people in the archives, when there's time.
I assumed he was just down on his luck, but I think there might be more going on ... because he came in this morning, cleaned bathrooms for about fifty minutes, then walked up to the office window and told me he was going because he wasn't going to be an $8.50/hour toilet bowl cleaner. Then as he walked out the front door, he announced "I hate this job!" An hour or so later, I got an email with the subject line: "Training Program?". He told me/us that "he now considers us a party in his exploitation" and basically felt he was misled into believing his job was going to be doing research, not cleaning, and was mad that he'd "jumped through high hoops" to get going in the program for this. So unfortunately he's actually in the "issues" column.
The few times he was in, I did get a weird vibe - it seemed like he was kind of ignoring me? So I'm wondering if part of his problem was that he perceived me as just some kid and was mad that I got to have an office job while he was in his situation.
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So there is this program locally(?) for unemployed senior citizens. It's supposed to be about "training" but the real hirability problem for the participants isn't that they need the kind of training you can get on the job, it's that they've been really unlucky or have some issues. We use it to get maintenance people, and it doesn't function as a stepping stone to a full-time maintenance job elsewhere, as far as I know. Our last guy didn't really want to do maintenance and left because he loves the west coast and hates the winter here, for example.
It's been months since we had someone, and Sue and I do some of the cleaning but we also don't do other things as regularly as needs to happen. The program finally found us someone else, and since we find the placement woman kind of sketchy/flaky the fact that she didn't get on with him seemed like a good sign - kind of an enemy-of-my-enemy situation, right? He came in for an orientation/interview last week and he seemed pretty unenthusiastic. He'd clearly rather be doing something more intellectual - he mansplained at me about an un-id'd photo sitting in the office that was "probably a well-to-do family" etc. etc. obviousness - and Sue told him there might be occasional opportunities to do some research for people in the archives, when there's time.
I assumed he was just down on his luck, but I think there might be more going on ... because he came in this morning, cleaned bathrooms for about fifty minutes, then walked up to the office window and told me he was going because he wasn't going to be an $8.50/hour toilet bowl cleaner. Then as he walked out the front door, he announced "I hate this job!" An hour or so later, I got an email with the subject line: "Training Program?". He told me/us that "he now considers us a party in his exploitation" and basically felt he was misled into believing his job was going to be doing research, not cleaning, and was mad that he'd "jumped through high hoops" to get going in the program for this. So unfortunately he's actually in the "issues" column.
The few times he was in, I did get a weird vibe - it seemed like he was kind of ignoring me? So I'm wondering if part of his problem was that he perceived me as just some kid and was mad that I got to have an office job while he was in his situation.
