The Residential Director makes some other interesting statements in this evaluation.
He says I closed the door when I was alone in the staff conference room. (He is trying to suggest I was "hiding out" in the conference room).
- I never closed the door when I was alone in the conference room. Never.
It's not that I might have done it once or twice. I never did it.
If I was alone in the conference room, the door was open. Period. (The conference room was where Counselor Assistants were based. Every CA spends much of the shift there. One very part-time CA did spend a lot of time in the conference room with the door closed, but he was "unpunishable" because of his relationship with senior staff.)
During the incident here when he said a client complained about my foul language, the director had been lounging in the conference room. He later claimed he did not remember hearing the conversation, nor did he remember (he said) where he was when the conversation occurred. Mysteriously, he did remember, in detail, the "three C's" conversation he initiated moments after the conversation.
In almost 6 months of my averaging about 60 hours a week in two units, across all shifts and days, I only remember seeing the director roam outside his office twice (with the exception of meetings and briefings). Once he was looking for someone to help jump his car. The other time he went into the mens' wing to a counselor's office. (Of course he left his office when required, here I am only referring to him venturing out under his own initiative.)
The Director's comment was a reaction to comments about him hiding in his office.
[There is very little for him to do. All client paperwork is handled at Bragaw, or by counselors. The Salvation Army's countless directors spend hours every day relaxing and lounging, but they get defensive when that fact is noted.]
note: As much as I did not enjoy seeing her, I did see the womens' unit director quite a bit.
I respected the fact that she at least put some effort into her job.
The Director says I have difficulty relating to younger male clients with "addictive and antisocial traits". As with the previous example, the director is accusing me of something he needs to be looking at in himself.
- The director is referring to the two specific clients here.
I did use profanity with them, and the Director overheard it.
The director was smiley and cheerful to those two clients, even as he was preparing to expel them. Other staff members who are in "the evangelical clique" are free to do as they like, including using profanity, engaging in sexual misconduct and even using drugs at Salvation Army Clitheroe. I was doing my actual job (i.e., trying to help those 2 clients) rather than hiding out or playing choirboy.
Clitheroe has an abysmal track record, not because their clients are difficult (the Salvation Army screen clients thoroughly, "difficult" clients go to Akeela), but because its directors are evangelicals, not substance abuse professionals.
The Director tries to use "psychology" words to cover the fact that he has little understanding of basic psychology.
- He cannot properly use very basic ideas and terminology that most college freshmen would know. In most jobs that would not be an issue, but he is residential director of the largest substance abuse treatment facility in Alaska.
He has no education or experience to justify his position. The only "qualification" he actually has is his status as a Salvation Army director. He has a B.A. in an unknown major, probably religious studies. [I have a B.A. in Psychology.]
The Residential Director says I tend to argue.
- He should try not being wrong.
He uses his authority (as a Salvation Army director) to prevent people from criticizing his utter lack of abilities and qualifications.