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Ooh. Apparently there's a meeting happening right now to decide what they're going to do with the new kid and how they'll manage the outcomes of it for me.
The results will be either: A. I should suck it up and go home B. He should suck it up and stop breaking the rules C. The department should suck it up and move him elsewhere
I didn't really share very much about exactly how it was affecting me here, because it's the sort of thing that I feel like will make me sound entitled and like a snowflake. But his move in and the resulting chaos really did affect me. I think it actually affected me more than when I was at the last place and things were really abusive, because back then I didn't miss stability, because I never had any to begin with. But now I've had a chance to be in a stable and supportive place where I don't need to always have an ear out of my headphones in case shit hits the fan, or barricade my door for safety, or have to sleep light so I don't get woken up by cops shining a light in my face after opening the wrong room. It was really hard to adjust to that again, and I completely lost all will and motivation to do anything, even eat and drink.
I'm fairly happy in this hotel, and things are going well again, but I do wonder if it was a good idea to agree to come here. After all, I will probably just walk back into the same shit show I did after returning from my holiday last time. And I'm not sure I can handle the constant yoyo-ing
So I dont really know the specifics of the situation, but guessing there is a good reason they cant say "B, and if you stuff up one more time you're out on your ass" to the other kid?
Yeah that's sort of what I meant. There is the strike and warning system thing, and he's been issued with 1 warning. So 2 more stuff ups would mean being kicked out
hows he only on 1 warning if the cops had to be called or your having to barricade your door?
There's 3 strikes before the warnings start, and 3 warnings before a kick out. They also do a grace period where they won't do a formal strike, just a verbal warning.
So essentially it can go something like this: 3 verbal warnings, then 3 strikes, then 3 proper warnings, then kicked out
Also the barricading my door is more about not wanting workers opening my door. The workers are here for him, but aren't his workers. But they're not really trained either, and never get briefed on who's room's who's
yeah... id be reporting to whatever org that people are opening your door at night, that turns scary real fast.