Comment on Why do social workers get upset when you don't want their help?

• gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  She was probably a bit overzealous I’m thinking, yeah. But that is a thankless job with low pay and little success. I give social workers a ton of latitude. I’m glad you stayed calm in the face of things.

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  • Kintarian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I know I sure couldn’t do it

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    • gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Same here.

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• xtr0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Out of curiosity, what were her arguments?

  If you have enough resources to weather any (literal or metaphorical) storms, then you might be OK but that is not the typical situation.

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  • Kintarian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    For instance, she showed me a piece of paper where she put little yellow stars on all of the different resources. One of which was for $700 a month. I said that I don’t want to pay money for rent and utilities. She then said okay well here’s this place where you can live with a roommate. I said I’m not really a people person, I don’t want to live with a roommate and she said well you might make a new friend. And it kind of went on like that for a while.

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    • xtr0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ah, that’s unfortunate. If you say you’re happy in your SUV then showing you places to live that aren’t your SUV isn’t very helpful. Having a discussion about whether you’re aware of and prepared for any risks associated with living in an SUV could be productive - either you’d learn something from social worker’s knowledge of many people living in vehicles or the social worker could be reassured that you’re not in a terrible situation.

      Do be careful out there! I hope you’ve got enough cash in the bank or enough credit to recover if someone messes with your SUV.

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      • Kintarian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Thanks, I appreciate that

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