Will work for food (well, sort of)
It is nearly impossible to find anyone around this agency to help you out with anything. Everyone is too busy to help a sister out. (Go, team!) They have too many visits to do, too many notes to write. The best ones are those that just don't respond when you send an email out asking for help. Everyone is also too busy to show up for Program retreats. Nobody wants to sit around and participate in team building exercises all day. The last one we had, many people, including supervisors, chose to work instead of go to a non-working retreat.
BUT add food to the mix and people come out of the woodwork. Upstairs in our big conference room, we have 23 pizzas, two sheet cakes, and ten cases of sodas. And every social worker, social services assistant, supervisor, program manager, and administrator showed up to eat! Everyone was there acting as if they love everyone else in the unit. These are the same people that wouldn't help you unless you were on fire. And, old habits die hard. Our program administrator bought all of this food for us, because we met all benchmarks for the month of August or something. But, when he asked for five people to help carry the pizzas upstairs, everyone all of a sudden forgot English. People pretended they didn't hear him. They simply ignored the request. They were too "busy" to get the pizzas, but they seemed to get unbusy awfully fast when the pizzas showed up. And, all of these people are social workers! They live to help others! I think I'm starting to lose faith in the human race.
BUT add food to the mix and people come out of the woodwork. Upstairs in our big conference room, we have 23 pizzas, two sheet cakes, and ten cases of sodas. And every social worker, social services assistant, supervisor, program manager, and administrator showed up to eat! Everyone was there acting as if they love everyone else in the unit. These are the same people that wouldn't help you unless you were on fire. And, old habits die hard. Our program administrator bought all of this food for us, because we met all benchmarks for the month of August or something. But, when he asked for five people to help carry the pizzas upstairs, everyone all of a sudden forgot English. People pretended they didn't hear him. They simply ignored the request. They were too "busy" to get the pizzas, but they seemed to get unbusy awfully fast when the pizzas showed up. And, all of these people are social workers! They live to help others! I think I'm starting to lose faith in the human race.
posted by Suzanne at 1:13 PM
1 Comments:
It's the story of "The Little Red Hen"... LOL I know what you mean. Usually it is those same people, lacking the inclination to help a co-worker, that show up to staff/program meetings and talk about "teamwork" and "striving towards a common goal". I just like to sit back and enjoy the tragic irony of the whole thing.
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