2y ago

Work and Income case manager tells client seeking housing support to 'go rob a bank'

www.rnz.co.nz

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"[The case manager] made me feel like a piece of shit to be honest. He made me feel so low down, that whole day I was sad, I was crying.
"He was supposed to help me, but instead he told me to rob a bank. Who am I going [to go to] for help now?"
That is pretty fucked up, people even those coming out of prison deserve to be treated with courtesy.
Gotta keep punching down.
It reads like a case of the employee implementing some extra-judicial punishment on their own initiative.
It also won't be an isolated case unfortunately.
The way the article only quotes the case managers side of the convo makes me feel like his rudeness is completely justified.
Getting a W&I house is like winning the lottery. As a man there is almost no chance you'll get one because you're last in line and there's plenty of single mothers who need it.
The emergency housing is so shit its worse than being homeless yet they still have to place people there. This guy think he's to good for emergency housing and deserves to be moved in front of all the people who have been waiting in emergency housing. He's delusional.
- Did we read the same article? The guy felt unsafe because he's a recovered drug addict and they put him into a lodge with drug taking and violence.
  He'd done a drug rehab programme, he doesn't want to reoffend. That's a pretty reasonable and responsible attitude and he did the right thing by trying to look for a better option.
  There are no options available for him, sure.
  But that fact could be communicated to him in a normal, professional, respectful manner that doesn't involve yelling at him and effectively telling him to commit crimes.
  
  Yes he did the right thing by asking for help. It doesn't hurt to ask. But by the tone of the employee it seemed that he wasn't happy with the answer he got and kept pushing and demanding until the employee got real with him.
- There is absolutely nothing that would justify this type of attitude from a case worker, this is fucked.

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