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May. 26th, 2020 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreyI spoke to my boss today, and the conversation was inconclusive. He said some things - they were trying to make it safer, they were installing a perspex screen, but it probably wouldn't be up for the day they were asking me to start back - ? - but there would be masks available and hand sanitisers. He couldn't tell me about shifts on the desk, and whether it would be cleaned in between people sitting there, because he didn't know who was coming back. He hadn't thought at all about people handing me things, but was happy for me to come up with new procedures I felt comfortable with. But mostly he said that he'd only called people last week to sort of put the feelers out for who might or might not be available/willing to come back, and it wasn't really a summons or anything. And he said that the government wasn't telling businesses what to do, exactly - which is a fair point - so the best thing to do would be to wait for Thursday's announcement and see what gets said then - whether Boris decides that if you can't avoid public transport, you shouldn't go back to work - and just sort of take it from there. So at least we're discussing things, but I'm still hanging on till Thursday to get a better idea of what's going to happen next week. Apparently my boss has been in throughout lockdown, as have all our cleaning staff. And the weird postroom man he/we all hate. And he and I were both baffled why our company would want reception opening back up at all. So. We'll see. They haven't even updated the train timetables yet, like they said they would. I assume they're waiting for Thursday too.
But we're having some trouble on the family front. My MN had some trouble a while back, running off without permission, and the centre he was at were worried he was being groomed by drug dealers. But the police have investigated, and apparently he was just hanging out with boys his own age - the 'presents' the centre said he came back with were actually pop and crisps from some boy's mum. But our social worker - we have a new one, as the previous one is now away from work for whatever reason - thinks that centre's not the right place for him, anymore, so they're looking at moving him to another placement whenever that's possible and they figure out a new place for him. But we also have my YN, who was with a nice lady quite near to where we live. But she is now at the end of her tether with his behaviour, and she never gets a break during lockdown, so she's now asked for his place there to be terminated. It's not really her fault - before she took him on, she was told he was attending school, so she wouldn't have him 24/7 and could have some time to herself, and go to her other job. But he wasn't really in school, and none of the organisations involved ever sorted him out a new school for three months when he was first there, or any kind of placement since the lockdown began. So she really didn't sign up for what she's got. At least before the lockdown, mum and dad could have him over sometimes and give her break, but now she says she's just dealing with his behavioural problems 24/7. She was in tears on the phone to my mum last night. So now his placement's ending. And we don't know where he'll go next. And it's kind of the fault of the people who said they would take care of him. And it really sucks. And we can't even go see him, or have him over here, for a bit of familiarity, whenever he goes to a new placement. Wherever that might be. So that kind of sucks.
But we're having some trouble on the family front. My MN had some trouble a while back, running off without permission, and the centre he was at were worried he was being groomed by drug dealers. But the police have investigated, and apparently he was just hanging out with boys his own age - the 'presents' the centre said he came back with were actually pop and crisps from some boy's mum. But our social worker - we have a new one, as the previous one is now away from work for whatever reason - thinks that centre's not the right place for him, anymore, so they're looking at moving him to another placement whenever that's possible and they figure out a new place for him. But we also have my YN, who was with a nice lady quite near to where we live. But she is now at the end of her tether with his behaviour, and she never gets a break during lockdown, so she's now asked for his place there to be terminated. It's not really her fault - before she took him on, she was told he was attending school, so she wouldn't have him 24/7 and could have some time to herself, and go to her other job. But he wasn't really in school, and none of the organisations involved ever sorted him out a new school for three months when he was first there, or any kind of placement since the lockdown began. So she really didn't sign up for what she's got. At least before the lockdown, mum and dad could have him over sometimes and give her break, but now she says she's just dealing with his behavioural problems 24/7. She was in tears on the phone to my mum last night. So now his placement's ending. And we don't know where he'll go next. And it's kind of the fault of the people who said they would take care of him. And it really sucks. And we can't even go see him, or have him over here, for a bit of familiarity, whenever he goes to a new placement. Wherever that might be. So that kind of sucks.
