Philothea
Life in the JVC

Placements for next year

February 27, 2004
Mary Margaret told us yesterday that Chris's and Jon's placement will be cut next year in favor of two other placements. The reasoning behind Jon's cut is that there are too many teaching positions in JVC: East, and since Beth works at the community center at St. Frances, its really like they have two JVs. For Chris, they thought that Chase-Brexton had too much money, although most of it is for research and they won't be able to afford a replacement for Chris once he's gone. Although, really, they could shift some of that money to get a case manager if they wanted to.

And one of the placements that will be replacing them? Michelle's agency. The one that had her sit around doing nothing for months and then after that just busywork. I really think they made a bad choice there.

So Chris is very bummed out by this too, and he sent an e-mail to us all yesterday saying that he was going to be in a very bad mood and not to take it personally if he snaps at us. Well, it's nice that he gave us a heads up, rather than me wondering what I did to offend him and then eventually finding out it was something to do with his job. But still, his community-mates have absolutely nothing to do with this. It's like when a man yells at his wife and kids because he had a bad day at work and expects them to be understanding. It's not their fault and he shouldn't be taking it out on them.

3:50 p.m.
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