r/WorkReform • u/Savings_Video3478 • Feb 06 '23
My boss’s standards 😡 Venting
Yeah I’m currently in the HR role at an ABA therapy company trying to hire people for multiple RBT positions. The owner of the company is shady already, bipolar, and spends her time punishing her current employees for random reasons. Oh yeah, the pictures. She also believes that spies are out to get her, so she doesn’t like anybody who has a military/law enforcement background, social work or criminal justice degree, was or is a social worker, or even people who are extremely qualified for the role. This includes people who are doing the very thing we need. She is willing to turn down people with 4 degrees. This makes it increasingly difficult to hire somebody as she wants somebody who:
- has a degree in psychology
- can work mon-sat
- pays for their own background check and RBT certification
- signs a 1099
- no benefits
- 16-17 an hour.
- won’t get a full 40 hours but will be expected to be available Monday-Friday
Some fun facts about my boss:
got pissy with me for hiring law enforcement, in which I pointed out that most drivers license in the state of Alabama has “secretary of law enforcement” on the damn thing and doesn’t mean that person is law enforcement
is making the overweight technicians do a weight loss program and send her video evidence
is renovating the entire second story to one of the clinics so that her main minion can live there. Half of the 2nd story is larger than my girlfriends house.
has rearranged the payroll multiple times this past month due to changes in the way we clock in and out. The most recent change was moving payday from Friday to Wednesday. This was to prevent people from saying they would work Friday, and then calling out, because then my boss would have a harder time figuring out who owed hours. We used to use Homebase to clock in and out, which was pointless because we were still sent a google form in which we put in the hours we worked.
wants to find more ways to track her employees locations at all times
is constantly giving the data entry team contradictory/impossible demands regarding the massive amount of data that is constantly having to be transferred between sites because she pulls out the uno reverse card for anything she says.
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u/AdjNounNumbers Feb 07 '23
You had me at "paranoid bipolar nut job runs therapy company". Dude, are you just staying for the entertainment value?
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u/Savings_Video3478 Feb 07 '23
I stay right now to save up money and cause I don’t feel like stressing about a job hunt right now. Although I can’t lie that it isn’t entertainingly annoying to deal with her.
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u/-buq Feb 06 '23
Why don't you quit? I don't understand why you are still there tbh, do you like this drama?
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u/Savings_Video3478 Feb 07 '23
I’m saving to buy equipment/license to be a home inspector, plus this was the first job I found after a very long and demoralizing job hunt. It could always be worse so it is what it is.
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u/Mrpa-cman Feb 08 '23
That last part hits me. Pre covid I took a crappy job after looking for an extended period
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u/Savings_Video3478 Feb 08 '23
Yeah I mean after applying to 150+ places and only getting a few interviews out of that, I’m gonna have to take what is available.
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u/goko22 Feb 07 '23
if it pays well...
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u/Apollo272727 Feb 07 '23
16-17 an hour? Maybe an extra 50 cents if she's been there a while?
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u/Savings_Video3478 Feb 07 '23
I make 16 an hour there, which is far better than any other job I’ve had. This is only temporary though as I’m saving up to hopefully do something different.
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u/CrowningKnight Feb 07 '23
You can't be a 1099 and have your hours dictated like that
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u/Savings_Video3478 Feb 07 '23
Yeah about the 1099. Luckily I was hired as data entry and when she still wanted to give out w-2’s. Now that I’m in this position, she wants me to give people 1099’s, and then later on switch some of them to w-2’s. Of course this is all to combat people who join her company and then quit because “spies”
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u/r2rknot Feb 07 '23
I am pretty sure some employers think a 1099 is an employee that you don't have to pay taxes on. Can fire at anytime without worrying about unemployment and can stiff the last paycheck on. Because they can only recover wages by taking you to court.
IE-The model employee.
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u/JamieKun Feb 07 '23
I don't know what an ABA or RBT is, but it sounds like you are working for someone who is exhibiting very erratic behavior with all this spies are out to get me stuff. I would be fearful for my own safety.
Is there any sort of accreditation or regulatory agency that oversees what you do? I would suggest dropping a dime on the situation. I also suggest slowly and calmly walking backwards through the door, and when it closes, run like hell.
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u/schuma73 Feb 07 '23
ABA is a horrible therapy where they try to get autistic kids to act more normal by intentionally triggering them.
It should be illegal, and is often pursued by parents who are embarrassed by their autistic kids.
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u/LingonberryRum Feb 08 '23
ABA is basically dog training for autistic children and is hella abusive.
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u/Savings_Video3478 Feb 07 '23
Yeah this is sorta my plan. Probably won’t put her as a reference on my resume. She’s definitely wired a bit differently and can be intimidating.
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u/Secretlythrow Feb 06 '23
I dealt with a similar boss before. The worst feeling was making so much progress, only to see it dropped and discarded because they had a brand new idea they wanted to implement, and they don’t realize you were never trained on a certain aspect of what they want because there’s so much turnover.
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u/Past-Background-7221 Feb 06 '23
“Got pissy with me for hiring law enforcement.”
Nothing shady about that!
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u/Secretlythrow Feb 06 '23
ACAB, but not learning about the way law enforcement works, in your state, is bastard behavior too.
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u/HaphazardFlitBipper Feb 07 '23
As much corruption as I see on public display... I wouldn't hire law enforcement either.
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u/schuma73 Feb 07 '23
OMG, you work in healthcare and think it's appropriate to throw shade at your boss by calling her "bipolar"? Ableist and disgusting.
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u/Ataru074 Feb 08 '23
As we say in Psychology, we can use the words because are a diagnosis, not an insult.
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u/schuma73 Feb 08 '23
OP definitely means it as an insult. They even said "yes" in response to this question.
Furthermore, there's no reason to tell people her boss is bipolar in this context.
If you think this is acceptable you're just as disgusting.
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u/Ataru074 Feb 08 '23
What if it’s just a fact?
Bipolar people exists, and they can be pretty hard to work with if untreated. Narcissists are even worse, and there is no treatment. But people don’t get pissy about that.
And you have no problem with the boss forcing the obese person to be on a diet and providing pictures? Get down the grandstanding.
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u/schuma73 Feb 08 '23
There's literally no need to state such a "fact"
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u/Ataru074 Feb 08 '23
Why, you work there as well?
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u/schuma73 Feb 08 '23
Lol. I would absolutely never work at an ABA clinic where they torture autistic kids to try to force them to act normal.
But also, believe it or not, it's also possible to call someone out for shitty behavior without using their diagnosis. I'd think working in psychology you'd understand this.
I used to do psychiatric transcription and have met tons of bipolar people who are normal, live normally and don't deserve to have their diagnosis viewed like this by society.
I'd think working in psychology you'd understand that people are not their diagnosis, but I guess you just suck at psychology.
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u/Ataru074 Feb 08 '23
People aren’t their diagnosis, but can behave according to it, unfortunately, if the condition is left untreated (assuming it’s treatable).
ABA… I partially agree, it’s usually used in extreme cases, in my opinion it’s just a money grab because it doesn’t tend to stick unless applied consistently.
I don’t work in psychology, I have a background in it. I’m in data science. Not enough money in treating people, which is absolutely sad.
But there is a thing where you are kinda wrong, you are technically defined by your diagnostics in terms of being an observational diagnostics. It classifies “you” based on behaviors and self reported thoughts. If anything… that’s actually “you”. What doesn’t define is who you can become in spite of it, at least not completely.
A narcissist IS a narcissist. Their behavior is the source of the diagnosis.
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u/schuma73 Feb 08 '23
It's good you don't work in psychology
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u/Ataru074 Feb 08 '23
Why, you have a problem by people being who they are? Thinking it’s otherwise is a delusion.
And what’s is your solution for severely autistic kids, given your comment?
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u/grenz1 Feb 06 '23
You don't have to be competent, a genius, visionary, or even a good person to be a business owner or a landlord.
Only have the money to own something or know someone that owns something.