illusion88
Lifer
What a crazy morning.
A little background first. I work at a group home for developmentally delayed and severe emotionally disturbed boys. They are all between the ages of 14-17, there are 6 at my house. Keep in mind that all of these kids has an IQ under 70, as that is the max we will allow in the group home.
Yesterday, two of my boys had a very bad day. They got into a physical fight, attacked each other with weapons, afterwards one kid ran away (he was found on the roof 20 min later). This aggression was thought to have calmed down last night, but apparently hadn't.
Currently I am working night shifts there, so I work from 8:30pm to 8:30am. This morning was nuts. We had a new Teachers Assistant from the school come and run the mornings with me. She isn?t new to the industry (or the company) just new to this house. When she arrived, one of the kids (call him JD) was in a hostile space. I had JD in his room, and he wasn't supposed to come out until he could start on his morning chore. Of course, JD couldn't remain in his room and he kept coming out and talking to the kids, he was trying to tell them that the staff was against the kids and we were going to poison their breakfast. She tried to redirect him but the situation only escalated. I had to escort JD to his room and almost put him in a physical restraint.
After about 5 minutes, I left him in his room with a 3rd staff watching the hallway (as we had multiple kids in their rooms. As I am finishing up breakfast I hear the 3rd staff yell, ?STOP? and I turn around to see JD lunging at me with a piece of metal in his hand. I grab his hand and yank the metal from him and engage in an active restraint, taking him to the ground. He started kicking and spitting and banging his head on the wood floor. At his point my 3rd staff came and assisted me while the new staff ushered the other kids to their rooms. The metal piece he lunged at me with was sharpened into a rough point. We took him to the "OP Room" (it's a room with nothing in it and a door that can be opened from only the outside, stands for opportunity room).
The other kids fed off of this negative energy and went off as well. They started yelling at each other and screaming, cursing and calling names. My other staff left me at the door and went to handle the other kids. After that the morning went all right, with me staying at the op room door, and the other two staff running the floor. The kids were still quite late, and probably missed their field trip that was planned for today.
Man, after mornings like this I really question why I do this work, especially as an overnight. If I was working day shifts, maybe it would be better, but doing 36 hours in three days really isn't making it worth it. Sure, the extra hours are nice, and so are the full time benefits but if there are any more mornings like this one I think ill quite. Furthermore, I work thursday-saturay, so my weekends are shot. I don't even get sunday, because I have to reset my sleeping to a regular schedual for monday 🙁
Anyways, I thought I would share. May none of you ever have kids as demonic as these :evil:
Clifs:
1. I work with kids
2. One kid got set off and lunged at me with a sharpened piece of metal
3. I restrained him and he was put into a "safe room", as you might call it (a carpeted room with nothing inside, just empty walls and a door that can only be opened from the outside.
4. I question why I do this job for such low pay
5. /quit
A little background first. I work at a group home for developmentally delayed and severe emotionally disturbed boys. They are all between the ages of 14-17, there are 6 at my house. Keep in mind that all of these kids has an IQ under 70, as that is the max we will allow in the group home.
Yesterday, two of my boys had a very bad day. They got into a physical fight, attacked each other with weapons, afterwards one kid ran away (he was found on the roof 20 min later). This aggression was thought to have calmed down last night, but apparently hadn't.
Currently I am working night shifts there, so I work from 8:30pm to 8:30am. This morning was nuts. We had a new Teachers Assistant from the school come and run the mornings with me. She isn?t new to the industry (or the company) just new to this house. When she arrived, one of the kids (call him JD) was in a hostile space. I had JD in his room, and he wasn't supposed to come out until he could start on his morning chore. Of course, JD couldn't remain in his room and he kept coming out and talking to the kids, he was trying to tell them that the staff was against the kids and we were going to poison their breakfast. She tried to redirect him but the situation only escalated. I had to escort JD to his room and almost put him in a physical restraint.
After about 5 minutes, I left him in his room with a 3rd staff watching the hallway (as we had multiple kids in their rooms. As I am finishing up breakfast I hear the 3rd staff yell, ?STOP? and I turn around to see JD lunging at me with a piece of metal in his hand. I grab his hand and yank the metal from him and engage in an active restraint, taking him to the ground. He started kicking and spitting and banging his head on the wood floor. At his point my 3rd staff came and assisted me while the new staff ushered the other kids to their rooms. The metal piece he lunged at me with was sharpened into a rough point. We took him to the "OP Room" (it's a room with nothing in it and a door that can be opened from only the outside, stands for opportunity room).
The other kids fed off of this negative energy and went off as well. They started yelling at each other and screaming, cursing and calling names. My other staff left me at the door and went to handle the other kids. After that the morning went all right, with me staying at the op room door, and the other two staff running the floor. The kids were still quite late, and probably missed their field trip that was planned for today.
Man, after mornings like this I really question why I do this work, especially as an overnight. If I was working day shifts, maybe it would be better, but doing 36 hours in three days really isn't making it worth it. Sure, the extra hours are nice, and so are the full time benefits but if there are any more mornings like this one I think ill quite. Furthermore, I work thursday-saturay, so my weekends are shot. I don't even get sunday, because I have to reset my sleeping to a regular schedual for monday 🙁
Anyways, I thought I would share. May none of you ever have kids as demonic as these :evil:
Clifs:
1. I work with kids
2. One kid got set off and lunged at me with a sharpened piece of metal
3. I restrained him and he was put into a "safe room", as you might call it (a carpeted room with nothing inside, just empty walls and a door that can only be opened from the outside.
4. I question why I do this job for such low pay
5. /quit
