This is the list of comments I hope to never hear again…
- Good mother’s don’t go to work
- I was going to call you and reschedule, but then it occurred to me, I don’t have a phone. I went to a payphone, but then it hit me: I don’t have $.25 to call. I started to write to you, but if I had the money for a stamp, I would have just used it on the payphone. (Sent via e-mail. My peeps are resourceful!)
- I am not a bus person
- I can’t look for a job on the bus
- I can’t expose my children to public transportation
- Riding the bus is for losers
- Why can’t you just pay for a cab to drive me to school
- It is inconvenient for me to look for work
- How much will you pay me to look for a job
- Iworked it out and you are paying me less than $4 an hour on Welfare
- I am going out of the country for 2 months, do I need to report that to The County – because I need the Welfare Money since I won’t be at my part time job
- It’s the government’s fault I can’t find a job
- Why should I look for a job, we’re in a recession
- I won’t work for minimum wage
- Why did they fire me for missing the first day of work
- Welfare doesn’t pay me enough
- Why won’t my food stamps buy alcohol
- I have a tooth ache so I will miss the appointment
- I can’t come to your office because it is raining
- I used to pay taxes so I will stay on Welfare and get every penny back that I paid in
- My kids don’t live with me, but don’t tell anyone that because I need their cash aid
- I don’t want to work because I will lose my cash aid
- Good people don’t stay in shelters
- I can never make it on my own
- It is better to be beaten and have a house than be homeless and look for work
- I can’t leave my child in day care – I will work when he/she turns five
- I had another child so why didn’t my cash aid increase
- My child just turned 18, how can she open a Welfare case and put me on it
- I have a bachelor’s degree and now I want you to pay for my PhD
- 32 hours a week is asking too much of my time
- I want to be paid for babysitting my own children
- I thought changing a diaper in the middle of my job interview would be alright
- I didn‘t want him to leave me so I had his baby
Okay people, It is all about you and your attitude
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I should disclose that I don’t hear these remarks often, and they are NEVER repeated twice to me. Most clients are motivated and working hard to improve their situations….but sometimes, just sometimes I hear the most amazing remarks from people