Hi.
Oh hi!
Yeah it worked. It is my favorite person. Hi Anna! How are you?
I am good. We just had our house meeting, pretty good. Nothing really too cool. I am warm too, not cold. You are mu favorite person, too!
Oh lucky. I wish my house meeting was during my shift. It's kind of annoying that I have to go to the meeting tomorrow when I could be doing other things.
Yeah, but hey! an extra hour for doing nothing but sitting really! Tomorrow when you go to the meeting I will take Josh to the cat house.
That's true. It's extra money. I wish you good luck with the cat house.
thank you, I might just stay in my car for it hahahahaha.
Last time I went there were very few cats. I wonder if the cold keeps them from staying outside.
Yeah, I am sure it does. Where should I take him if there are no cats?
I'm not sure. Hopefully there is at least one and then you won't have to worry about where else to go.
Maybe like Barnes and Noble or something. I got my headphones to work!
Yeah! What did you have to do? And yeah maybe take him to the library or somewhere you would want to go too. You could look at some books or movies you want to read/watch
Hahahah, well, my bluetooth for my laptop wasn't even on for some reason
Oh. I might have turned it off last night after using the bluetooth speaker.
oooo, maybe I will take him to the library so he can get some books so he won't bother me on my shifts. And then I also read the instructions on how to pair the headphones.
Oh good. And yeah that would be a good idea to do something that will make him less annoying for your shifts.
Today has been nice, everyone is in their rooms. How has your shift been so far?
Easy too. Lisa left to go pick up Guy from the hospital since he's been there with Melanie all weekend. And then Frank and Mark have stayed in their rooms the whole time too.
That is very nice. For some reason my back is twitching
Too much workout last night if you know what I mean.
Hahahaha, perhaps, perhaps. Worth it though.
Yeah. Have you made dinner yet?
No, have you?
No. I might start making it soon. But I might wait a while too. I haven't decided yet.
Same. What are you making? I'm making burritos.
The menu says Buttered Noodles but I don't know what that is so I might wait till Lisa gets back to make it.
Don't you just pour butter and salt on noodles?
Probably. I guess I could Google it.
I like it with browned butter. Its when you melt the butter on the stove and make it browned alittle
That does sound good. And it looks like Frank wants to shower so I will probably help him shower before I make dinner.
Maybe I will make dinner while you help him shower.
I'm kind of hungry though so I'm going to eat something real fast and then help him shower.
I'm hungry but I forgot food.
I'm sorry. Lisa is so nice. She just started a staff food box that we can all contribute to and take from when we need food. It's really nice.
What?! That is amazing. What kind of stuff is in there?
Someone made some cookies. There's microwave popcorn. Tea and Hot chocolate. Soup. Granola bars. Oatmeal.
Wow, I want to start one of those now.
Well you're the assistant manager now.
Yeah, so I could do it! I am going to do it.
Lisa was extra nice and started it off with a ton of food, but you could just start it off with a little and have everyone try to contribute.
Yeah, so then I won't have to pay for it There are only like 4 staff who work in this house.
Yeah. I haven't really contributed anything yet so I feel kind of bad. I'll probably keep my stash of oatmeal in there and that will be my main contribution.
Oh that's a good idea. I could take some of our microwave popcorn, and like ramen noodles. oooooo a staff mini fridge would be awesome.
Yeah. You could just put a bunch of cheaper things in there to start. Maybe a lot of the food your parents gave us after Anthony left.
Oh yeah, that is a good idea.
And yes a mini fridge would be nice.
Okay I am totally going to do that.
Yeah that would be very nice. It's so nice to have here at this house. I get the munchies so hard at work even if I brought dinner.
hahahaha I do too! Like I am hard core craving a snow cone. But I guess there couldn't even be snow cones in the staff food box
No. We could go get one tonight though. Oh wait maybe only a smoothie. Are there any snow cone places open right now. ?
Wait I think there is one open year round. Also sorry, I had to change tyler
No worries. Which one?
One by the smaller Walmart I think
Do you want to go?
Yeah, but not if I'm not craving it anymore. Would you want one too ?
I'm not really craving anything right now, but I wouldn't mind one if you want to. Or we could go to Coldstone with our gift card
ooooo yes!!
Then it won't cost us anything.
Free stuff!!!!
It could be our family night activity.
Oh yeah that is a good idea! And we could do a short message.
Yeah Do you want to do the message or me?
I will do it.
Okay thanks.
Yeah, how long should it be?
I don't know. The ones in my family were at least 5 minutes usually.  Sometimes longer. But this is our family now. What do you want to do?
Hmmm, I am not really sure. My family only did a spiritual message sometimes so I don't really know how it works.
Well tonight, you can make it a brief 5 minutes so we can still get to bed on time and we can decide later how long we want it to be. How's making dinner going?
It is going okay. I always accidentally burn the toritllas Now I am going to feed Tyler.
Okay. We will chat more later. Wow apparently I made a ton of mistakes last month on paperwork.
Oh really? What kind of mistakes?
With behavior documentation. I guess I don't really understand the N/A section of it.
Oh yeah it is kind of confusing. Do you know now?
Not really. Lisa just told me she had a paper of what I did wrong but the paper doesn't really explain what I'm supposed to do. So I will probably make the same mistake again I made a couple dumb mistakes too where I accidentally left stuff blank.
I can explain it to you. I made the same mistake for awhile. I think its mostly because in house N it wasn't really applicable
Yes please explain it.
You only put N/a for good behaviors because those letters refer to if you had to separate the client from other clients during their behavior for example NEX means Non- exclusionary. An example of this is if you prompted Wyatt to use appropriate language when he was still in the company of other clients/ staff EX means exclusionary. So if Wyatt used bad language and he just wouldn't stop swearing so you had to separate him from the situation and talk to him in his room. R is restraint. So like if the behavior led you to having to restrain them. Like if Guy was trying to run away or hurt one of the other clients. And N/A just means not applicable so if it was a good behavior. For all bad behaviors you have to circle something other than N/A
Oh. That makes more sense. I faintly remember someone saying something about that when I was trained. I just haven't heard about it since and I think I've made the mistake before. At least I'm pretty sure I have.
Yeah that was the same with me. Like I dont think it clicked until one of my managers of House B made us go be trained by Kellen
It seems like the office always acts like they've trained us on these things a thousand times but most of us probably haven't because of the turnover of workers. The house managers need to do a better job of training one on one.
Yeah I agree with that Also sometimes the managers dont even know how to do it right
Yeah. Well they are always understaffed and they can never find managers so they promote people like Tyrell who have only worked there for 6 months.
I honestly think I know more about NES than Tyrell does.
Yeah. That's the problem. The people who know the most are the ones who are only here temporarily and don't want to be managers.
Yeah because they are students and dont want to do this forever.
If I had one suggestion for NES it would be to find a way to make it more appealing and manageable for students to be managers and assistant managers.
liken managers like co
Co-manager? That would be a good idea.
Yeah! Like one takes care of finances and the other doctors appointments
Yeah and then they could both train when possible and they could both do 20 hours a week for a full 40 hours of manager each week. But maybe give them an option to work more if they want still but still get manager pay.
Yeah I think that is such a good idea! How many points do you think we have earned?
Over 100,000 now. I'm about 60,000 away from the raffle ticket. And you are about 260,000 away from one.
is that a lot?
Kind of but you might be able to get one. I could help you.
Okay when does it end?
Tomorrow afternoon.
Oh I will really have to hurry. What will rack up the points?
It ends tomorrow at 6pm. It's about how many words you use and how many turns you take.
So make long messages and for long periods of time?
So it needs to be a really good conversation with someone. You can't only send a bunch of messages. You need people to respond to you. It's only considered a turn after someone else's response.
Oh I get it
Yep
Did Lisa come back and get dinner done?
No she came back only like 30 minutes ago. I made dinner. How did the rest of your shift go?
How did the butter noodles turn out? Mine was pretty good. Nothing too special. I have watched some New Girl. Cleaned a little bit and I am tired.