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Oh, Donna, are you glad that you're retired? difficult child inverviewed with the Warden today..
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 403378" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I'm surprised that they would have interviews for just one opening! It's a very complicated process to hire off of a civil service register. If we had five openings, we had to schedule interviews and then send letters to everyone on the civil service register who was eligible, sometimes 40 or 50 of them. ADHD in itself probably wouldn't be that much of a problem but there are other things that would be.</p><p> </p><p>Working in a prison is a very strange atmosphere and it's not for everyone. Some of the employees may seem "off the wall" but that's the type of person who can handle working there, especially in the housing units. The straight laced, up-tight, prissy types won't last two days. If you are easily rattled or easily shocked or easily offended, you won't make it either. If you can listen to profanity, threats and insults hurled at you for eight hours a day and not lose your cool or your professionalism, you might just make it. Where I worked, there was a core group of long-term employees who had been there forever who were actually very tight with each other. There is a lot of kidding around, dirty jokes, etc. and it helped diffuse the stress. When things got bad, we'd just remind each other of how we'd been through worse before and survived. And when you get a lot of these old veterans together telling stories, you can be prepared to laugh till you get sick, although a lot of it is really "black humor" that would probably shock an outsider but you get hardened to it after a while. You almost have to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 403378, member: 1883"] I'm surprised that they would have interviews for just one opening! It's a very complicated process to hire off of a civil service register. If we had five openings, we had to schedule interviews and then send letters to everyone on the civil service register who was eligible, sometimes 40 or 50 of them. ADHD in itself probably wouldn't be that much of a problem but there are other things that would be. Working in a prison is a very strange atmosphere and it's not for everyone. Some of the employees may seem "off the wall" but that's the type of person who can handle working there, especially in the housing units. The straight laced, up-tight, prissy types won't last two days. If you are easily rattled or easily shocked or easily offended, you won't make it either. If you can listen to profanity, threats and insults hurled at you for eight hours a day and not lose your cool or your professionalism, you might just make it. Where I worked, there was a core group of long-term employees who had been there forever who were actually very tight with each other. There is a lot of kidding around, dirty jokes, etc. and it helped diffuse the stress. When things got bad, we'd just remind each other of how we'd been through worse before and survived. And when you get a lot of these old veterans together telling stories, you can be prepared to laugh till you get sick, although a lot of it is really "black humor" that would probably shock an outsider but you get hardened to it after a while. You almost have to. [/QUOTE]
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