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| kinkyrose1212 (profile) wrote, on 11-24-2012 at 5:36pm | |
| Current mood: contemplative Music: Phantom of the Opera soundtrack Subject: Westover Job Corps. |
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| Another thing about this Job Corps: there is a staff member on center who gets VERY angry, or at least likes to give the impression that he does. He screams at us when he gets angry. And it's the kind of screaming that makes you think he's a psychopath. I'm sure it's meant to instill fear in us. But it doesn't because all he can do is scream. We could presumably sue the shit out of him or have him arrested if he ever physically hurt us. I don't think he would, anyway, because when he's not screaming, he seems like a nice enough guy. But at the last meeting we had where he was present, he got so angry that he kicked one of the metal, folding chairs over. That pisses me off for two reasons. One: Because the staff likes to put a TON of emphasis on what behaviors are and are not acceptable in a professional, working environment and clearly this guy has a job and isn't exhibiting professional behavior and yet has not been fired. So that's contradictory. The other reason it pisses me off is because work-environment aside, it is extremely hypocritical. If one of us trainees exhibited behavior like that, we would be required to take anger management or we would be terminated from the program. At least one staff member has said to us, " I wish I had known about Job Corps. when I was your age. " He said that in an effort to make us appreciate the shithole place it is. So I want to be like, " If you really want to understand, why don't you sit the fuck down and we'll talk down to you and treat you like lesser beings than us and THEN you can tell us how wonderful it is and how grateful we should be. " But, of course, it is a free, federal government program, so they can do whatever they want and we just have to take it. They could probably get the staff members cleared of charges if they raped a student/trainee. | |
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katiecat | 11-28-12 9:16pm Sounds like a GrEaT program. (That is my written sarcastic voice.) Let's hope they don't sexually assault someone.
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kinkyrose1212 | Re: , 11-30-12 11:21am It is a very shitty environment. Not all of the staff are bad. The instructors themselves seem to actually care about us and our success, but some of the staff here are just cringeworthy. I don't know of any staff members sexually assaulting students, but I did here a rumor that someone got raped on campus and made a YouTube video speaking out about it and that's why they don't allow us to access YouTube here, but that's just a rumor, so who knows if it's true. I wouldn't be surprised, though. It's not technically a job, it's a job training program where they do pay you shit money every two weeks, and they teach us academics here, too, and we are required to join at least one committee and two after school classes. Yes, you can quit if you want to, but if you quit, you either can never come back or you have to wait a long period of time before they will accept you again. More rumors, I'm not sure which one is true, but I'm sure one of them is. I've adapted a little better to the environment here and I'll be able to get through my academics very quickly and I should be able to get through my vocation very quickly, too, so no, I'm not going to quit. It wouldn't be worth it. There may come a time when it will be worth it, but for now, it's okay. My goal is to be done with everything by June, and I will probably be done even before then, but if not June, than before July 15 because then they are converting us into a non-smoking campus, which in my opinion is a REALLY stupid thing to do. REALLY, REALLY stupid. There are so many smokers here and we're already unhappy because we're here. If they don't allow us to smoke, people are going to be smoking in their rooms more, getting into more fights, and sure, it's all well and good for Job Corps. because they can just terminate whoever they want, but what the hell are the people who can't hold it together without cigarettes supposed to do? Yeah, we can smoke off campus, but it's my understanding that we're not allowed to leave campus during the training day, which is from about 7:30 AM to at least 3:30 PM. People are going to be at each others throats. I won't be, even though I smoke, but I still sure as hell don't want to be here when that happens. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the people in charge of this program are fucking idiots. |
| katiecat | Re: Re: , 12-03-12 6:07pm I don't smoke, but my friend Courtney does, and if she doesn't have a cigarette when she wants one, she flips the fuck out. I personally am way to cheap to smoke. I'd rather eat chocolate candies or bite my nails. |
kinkyrose1212 | Re: Re: Re: , 12-04-12 8:56am Yeah, I can only imagine the trainees here, who don't need any excuse to blow up, fight, or otherwise make a scene, will get much, MUCH worse when we can't smoke during the training day. I'm really thinking about leaving here. I came because I didn't have anything going for me in my old life, but you know? It's really starting to seem like I don't have anything going for me here, either. |
| katiecat | Re: Re: Re: Re: , 12-04-12 1:50pm How long have you been at the program? Sometimes it feels like something isn't working, but it needs more time. However, this place sucks and doesn't sound like it would get any better. |
kinkyrose1212 | Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: , 12-05-12 8:32am I kind of answered this comment in my last comment ( before I read this one ), but I've been here for a little over a month. I know it's not long, but when I found out I couldn't even get into my trade when I'm supposed to ( next week ), I just got so upset because by X-Mas I will have been here two months and still done absolutely nothing that I came here to do. I don't think this place is going to get any better, either. I came here to actually work towards fixing my life and they are just jerking me around. |