I have to admit I am getting pretty burnt out at my new job already. It is just total chaos there most of the time. The staff is not united, and it seems like everyone is working toward separate goals. The people who have experience are not being listened to, and those in command seem determined to reinvent the wheel.
It makes me a little sad because I had great hopes for what it was going to be like at the shelter. It was my dream job and a chance to move myself up into a position with some influence. I had many great ideas and so much excitement about sharing.
Now I feel tired, unappreciated, and fed up with it all. I typically work the graveyard shift where I get to spend a few hours with kids during their awake time and then get to be a laundry maid, and house cleaner for the rest of the night. It is really boring but I thought I would still be able to contribute through creating policies and helping to build the structure of the shelter, wrong.
I did work my first 4 to 10 shift last week, and it was complete chaos! How in the world do you expect to help these kids if there is absolute mayhem happening around them. The rules are written down but not enforced and the kids have learned that through persistence and manipulation they can typically get their way.
I used to think that my old job was chaotic and disorganized at times, but now I look back and see that it was a well oiled machine in comparison to my new job. Another gripe, is priorities. It seems like how tidy the shelter is or if the kids go to church has become the priority over actual real case management and trying to in better the lives of these kids. Yes it is important to keep the shelter sanitary but to have that be the top concern over all the other things we should be worrying about, really? And yes it is a faith based organization, but we aren't a recruitment facility, if the kids want to go to church great, but we need to find them a stable place to live first, and help them in school, and help them with their emotional problems. Then we can worry about church.
Sorry this is kind of a tangent, but I am so fed up. I have started looking for another job because I just cannot deal with chaos, especially unnecessary chaos. If people could let go of their egos and reevaluate what exactly it is that we are supposed to be doing here.
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