People really do suck! And if you haven’t figured it out by now… I hate them. Since I have already discussed my hatred for people asking stupid IT questions, I might as well discuss people working in the so-called “Humanities”.

I HATE SOCIAL SERVICES!!!

Don’t get me wrong, some social programs are necessary and are very beneficial to the clients that are served by these programs. The problem is that many people managing these programs fall into 1 of 2 categories:

1. Bleeding hearts that think they can change the world;
2. And those who don’t care one bit about the clients and are just working for the money (not that the money is very good) and the recognition (they are providing such a wooooonderful public service – can you detect a note of sarcasm here?).

The sad fact is that I hate both types of people equally.

Sometimes I think that the Bleeding heartS (I’ll call them BS for short because that seems to be what is blinding them from the truth) are the worst because they actually think they can change the world (those foolish, foolish people). They then go about managing their little not-for-profit group with blinders on thinking they are making a difference… and I’m sure they are, in some cases. What about those people who abuse the system? I have been witness to people doing this every day. They prey on the sympathies of BS and profit from these sympathies. Many BS (remember BS stands for Bleeding heartS) are also members of religious groups (surprise, surprise) whose beliefs cloud the judgements of otherwise sensible people. A good example of BS having S (you can probably guess what the S stands for… and no! It is not heartS) in their eyes lives across the street from me. There is a home across the street from my home that is low-rent housing for abused women and their children. In this home, a woman and her children are living on welfare while their “abuser” and father who according to a neighbour makes $500/week lives at the “shelter” with them. After many nights of putting up with the fighting and cursing coming from the afore mentioned house, a call was made to the landlady of the house; A church group that is trying to help abused women get back on their feet. The response that was received from the landlady was quite surprising… “He does not live at the house. It is against the rules”. When the landlady was again told that he IS in fact living in the house, her response was… “Well, there are no throw away families”. I’m sure that she’d change her tune if she lived across the street from the yahoos. Talk about being full of S! Does she really think that she is helping the Huxtables? I’ll call them the Huxtables because that is who they remind me of… only they are the Huxtables from Hell! Right now we have

• Cliff – the abusive, crass loud-mouth that pretends not to live in the house
• Claire – The even crasser (not classier), even louder mouthed “lady” that draws a welfare cheque while Cliff works.
• 2 Theos
  Theo#1 – The older son who loves to break things and beat up children 4 years younger than him (of course they are probably in the same grade because the kid is so damn stupid).
  Theo#2 – A carbon copy of Theo#1 only a couple years younger.
  

The low-income housing that the Huxtables live in has another rule regarding children. When the children turn 18, Claire (Cliff, of course is not living there according to the landlady) and the Theos are supposed to move out so that the rental can be given to another person in need. Because of this rule, Claire is planning to get pregnant –maybe they can have a little Vanessa or Rudy-- again so that she and Cliff can continue to abuse the system. It sure sounds like the BS (I am not repeating what BS stands for again! If you don’t know, read the damn thing again and pay attention this time) are helping this poor needy family through a crisis.

Wait a minute… NO IT DOESN’T!!! These people are taking away resources that could be used to help people who are actually in crisis situations. Why is it that the abusers get the help while the ones who really need the help do not get it? I guess the truly needy people are the “throw away people”.

Those that are in the business of “helping people” for the money and/or the recognition are called ASS for short. What does ASS stand for? Well… it stands for ASS. Need I say more? The ASS takes credit for the good things that people that work for him do while constantly disrespecting the people who do this work. They assume that they know everything about their “clients” even though they never spend time with them, and spend government money on things for which that money is not meant. A good example of this occurs daily in the mental health industry. The government pays for clients to have one-on-one support and these one-on-one workers end up with 10 different clients at once. If you know fractions at all, and I know that artsy, humanitarian types have problems with this… that is ten-on-one.

I know that the job market is flooded with people with Arts degrees (hell, I have one), but that doesn’t mean you should treat your staff like crap… just because you can find someone else to do the job. What about taking advantage of the clients? Why should their one-on-one time be eaten up by other clients? The answer to that is… they can’t tell anyone. Neither can the staff member for fear that they might lose their job. So the ASSes get to sit on their throne and s#!t all over the rest of the clients and staff while everyone tells them that their s#!t smells like roses (you might wonder what everyone is doing inside the ASSes’ throne… It is actually a metaphorical throne, not a porcelain one)!

The funny part of this whole situation is that the BS kiss the ASSes and that is what allows this whole process to continue.

Well, that’s all for now. I’m sure that I’ll have more to say about social services in the future as I feel such disdain for them.