Looks like things are going to be quite turbulent over the next fortnight. Unfortunately our program coordinator went on leave and she’s been replaced with a new case manager 2 months into the role who works half the days the program coordinator does, while she still has to be a case manager. Naturally, that’s not really how time works, so communication and advocacy has been… Lacking. (For context the program coordinator is a full time role, and the case manager should ideally be a full time role but has always been part time, usually 4 days a week)

They’ve decided that they want to move the new YP in on the 5th (it was meant to be pushed back until the 16th so that things would work out better), but they decided that the poor woman holding the fort is able to co-ordinate a transition from both a case manager and coordination perspective on 3 days a week 🤦‍♂️

Unfortunately because of several communication breakdowns, the lead tenant that’s still here is realllly pissed off and has decided to move out a month early and is now going to leave on the 3rd which is going to be interesting. They really can’t move anybody in without a lead tenant, but it’s about a 50/50 as to whether they’re going to push it back until the next one moves in, or they’ll try and put support workers here every day.

I know support workers don’t sound that bad, but because this is an independent program, the “support” workers just fall asleep on the couch and play flappy birds on their phones, and fuck around with the damn air con. It’s also really uncomfortable having a stranger sleeping on your couch.

Also I’m off to Mildura from the 6th-11th, so I don’t know whether that works out good or bad for me. I guess it means old mate will get a few days to acclimate to the new environment without me in the way, but also feels like it might be a cluster fuck.

I have mixed feelings about it all. It hasn’t quite hit me yet, but I’ve been through worse, so I guess this isn’t that bad. At the end of the day, I don’t have a choice though. If shit hits the fan I don’t have anywhere to bail to, I’ll be going down with the ship. So I guess there’s some level of comfort in that - I can’t do shit about it, so there’s not much use worrying about it. But logic isn’t how emotions and feelings work ¯⁠\⁠\_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯