Demanding job, unsympathetic boss - Avis employé Paraprofessional RiseUP

- Clients are an absolute joy to work with - Great and consistent training is provided - Angie (Day Program Director) is caring, understanding, and an incredible hard-worker. She has done an amazing job completely revamping the Adult Day Program. - Staff works together to overcome every hurdle, no matter how difficult - Communication is pretty good, in my opinion, between staff and administration - Open communication is welcome, where concerns can be raised as needed - So much room for creativity in how we approach leading the day program with the clients - Room for growth within the company is possible - Coworkers are very caring individuals and truly work well as a team. - All driving is with company vehicles, which is nice. You won't ever have to use your own vehicle. - The benefits provided are pretty nice as well.

- Driving. SO MUCH DRIVING. Hiring drivers has helped lighten the load, but having to pickup and drop off clients and still have time to complete notes without going into overtime is nearly impossible. - We get asked to clock out on time, and reprimanded when we stay late to finish notes, but then get reprimanded for not having notes finished, its too much some days. - Sometimes administration does not hear concerns from staff, though they try. There were a few incidents where staff felt that administration did not have their backs. - The pay doesn't justify the amount of work/stress.

The students were the only thing keeping me going to work.

The leadership at the school has a history of scapegoating, victim blaming, threatening, and criticizing others. There is no room for new ideas or sharing opinions or different perspectives, the management’s word is law even when they’re wrong. I decided to quit due to the way management handles things. They are unprofessional, unethical, and frankly unkind. The principal dehumanizes people enough to make them into robots who don’t want to speak up for what they think due to fear of being dismissed and invalidated. It’s sickening and I don’t want to come to work to get bullied anymore. Don’t work here!