{"id":505,"date":"2009-04-22T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:47:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:47:21","slug":"a-week-of-tuesdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"A week of Tuesdays"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Glass art on display at <\/em><\/span>Hot Sand<\/em><\/span><\/a> on the boardwalk at Asbury Park
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I often have to walk off the workday on Tuesday. Tuesdays feel something like setting up your desk for the day on a subway platform in Manhattan; at midday I tried a few laps around the building in an effort to get my head straight… it didn’t help much, unfortunately. The end of every month tends to be crunch-time for me anyway, but whisper the word vacation and any facade of controlled chaos just falls away.<\/p>\n

It feels almost wrong to vent about it here, but the first round of *bumping* that I’d mentioned in <\/span>this post<\/span><\/a> will take effect on the first of May. Sadly, a social worker with 24 years experience in my unit will be bumped to a downgraded position in another agency. We’ll have to train the person that’s taking her job, and a couple of us are consoling ourselves with thoughts of how we might best do that.<\/p>\n

*insert evil grin*<\/p>\n

She’s a nice-enough lady, but it’s been decades since she’s been expected to have any real client contact. People in my profession get promoted so they won’t have to deal with clients anymore, sort of like school teachers becoming administrators so they won’t be expected to actually teach. I imagine she’ll adjust soon enough, or maybe just retire a bit sooner than anticipated, but picture someone straight out of a Little House on the Prairie episode walking the streets of the South Bronx. That’s a bit of an exaggeration, but you need thick skin to do this job well and you also need to project a bit of an edge when you’re out there with clients and I have a hard time seeing anyone doing that in a twin-set and pearls and kitten heels. It should be amusing to watch, at least.<\/p>\n

I’m working late more often the last couple months and today’s rain had turned to sun and then back to thick fog and drizzle by the time I found myself walking the boardwalk early this evening. The bit of color on display there was a welcome distraction from an otherwise dreary sort of day. <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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