First non-profit I have ever worked for that cared more about the $ that they didn’t have (and were spooked by a funding agency) than the people they were serving or the staff who were truly dedicated to what they did despite the poor pay scale.
Management and Upper management would blatantly lie to make you look bad and create issue to bring to HR for ”disciplinary” action once they didn’t care for you anymore.
Direct staff were treated poorly by way of not even having the required tools to do the job effectively, but using the “chain of command” in an attempt to get what you need to be more efficient in your job for the clients was a joke...... The “chain of command” really doesn’t exist, at least in the Adult Outpatient Program. Only Intimidation tactics to make sure no issues are heard by the CEO.
Vice President placates you to think she really cares what you have to say, then turns on you in an instant once she is professionally challenged. Very vengeful and insecure.
Working with DCF as a funding agency. There are some great workers out there. Some REALLY GREAT ones....Some who really care about helping the families on their case load.
Then there are the ones who have a hair... you know where. They use their Supervisory power and push their weight around as if they were bullied in a previous life and have to make it right this time around!
DCF is suppose to be there to provide resources to help families reunite, if at all possible. Not to be the biggest road block a family encounters for years of trying to get their child back. How dare a state worker continuously try to keep a biological family apart because of a personal vendetta. That just makes you weak, vengeful, heartless and cruel. And with those qualities... In That profession.... it’s time to give it up and move on!!! You are no longer effective in your position.... And YOU have become the bad apple!!! Horrible that it can happen with other people’s children. That someone else can have that kind of power because of mistakes that you made years ago and have spent years trying to make them right. Those are the kind of people who cause more trauma for families that have been through enough trauma!!!
