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I’m feeling a lot better today, but I’m still taking it easy. It doesn’t
take me five minutes to get from the bed to the bathroom anymore, so I call
that a win. I have a follow-up appointment with the doctor tomorrow. They
don’t technically have to sign off on me going back to work fulltime, but my
employer will expect me to heed their advice, whatever it is. I won’t be
starting my new contract work for the jail until next week either way. I’m
currently in the middle of making sure that all of my work is being done by
others on my team. They already had the pick up the slack while I was hurt
and completely unable to, so it’s not like I have to spend hours training
them. It’s protocol for us to share accounts so that we can fill in for each
other as the need arises. We go on vacation, and it’s not like I was the
first person in the company to take sick leave. So they know what they’re
doing, and they’ll be fine without me until management can find a
replacement. They’re probably going to be hiring a lot of people, both to
fill out this new department that we’re building, and to backfill the jobs
that become vacant from internal movements. They’re talking about hiring an
assistant for me. They may only be a temp while I’m having trouble moving
around in a physical sense. I don’t think that I need that, but at the same
time, if they are willing to pay for it, who am I to say that this
hypothetical future person doesn’t deserve the work? Back home, my sister
was an international music teacher, who lived all over the world. It was
often customary for her to have a housekeeper of some kind, not because she
was suddenly in the one-percent, but because people needed jobs, and she
could spare the money.
In my free time, I’m trying to come up with some initial ideas for how my
new team will work. We’ll all meet together in one room, but I’ve broken
them into four categories. The biggest one is for the counselors, like the
behavior psychologist, and an experienced jail counselor. We need people on
the technical side, like a computer expert, and a logistician. We’ll have
legal too, like a criminal lawyer, and even a correctional officer. I’m
thinking about including an immigration lawyer, because it may be necessary
for some of the guests, but I don’t know about that yet. I don’t believe
I’ll be putting a law enforcement officer on the team, though that could
change in the future. Nothing has happened yet, and it’s not like we can’t
hire new team members after the initial team is established. Lastly, there’s
the social aspect, like a social worker. That might sound like it should be
in the Psychology subdepartment, but I feel like there are more I can put in
there who will deal more with community involvement than mental and
emotional support. Obviously, all of this has to be approved by whoever my
new boss ends up being, and the jail. Well, the jail can’t be involved in
the hiring of the specific people, because that would constitute
co-employment, and that is illegal. But they can give their input for what
kind of positions will be on the team. After all, they’re the ones paying
for the consulting. If we try to hire, say, an investment banker, or a
surgeon, well...we may somehow find value in their contributions, but they
get paid too much, so the jail would have the right to say, “not gonna
happen, buddy.” They may decide that they only want one psychologist, or ask
us to not hire a correctional officer, but let a current employee join our
meetings. We’ll see. Let me know in the comments if you have any other
ideas. I can’t spare the money for you, though.
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