Escapee
10-12-2004, 15:45
I have been chatting to a social worker!
No not in a professional capacity, I was just getting some info from this person I know concerning the proposed sheltered ahousing development near my home.
After a fairly constructive discussion she said "so I guess you see me as a do-gooder then" I actually disagreed with this, and told her how suprised I was at her views when she didn't have her "work" hat on.
She said as far as she's concerned there is a difference between "Do-Gooders" and people who "Do-Good". I must admit I agree with her entirely.
She said that she works with a lot of Do-Gooders who give people chance after chance after chance. She said if I go out of my was and beyond my duty to help someone because I feel they are being severely disadvantaged, and then they throw it all back in my face, thats the last. She said from that point on she will only do the bare minimum that she requires.
I can relate to my current girlfriend who I consider to be too much of a "Do-Gooder" her and her housemate took pity on another foreign worker, who had found herself homeless. This person had taken a housemates cheque book and written herself one for six hundred pounds, she was caught for this offence and many others came to light when it was investigated. My "Do-Gooder" girlfriend and her housemate took pity on her and let her move in with them because they didn't want to see her deported.
They gave her cash to pay the rent on one occassion, as she used a story about needing to get her hands on some cash that evening and she would write a cheque out for the full amount. The cheque bounced and the other two ended up paying the rent for a second time that month, she has borrowed money off them and there's no chance of getting it back. The latest is the council tax and the water rates, apparently these are in arrears by twelve months!
My girlfriend says she wishes she could be more like me, because I wouldn't of let someone in my house who had stolen money to start with. My girlfriends attitude is "Oh I will have to work overtime to pay the bills"
I think she's a bl**dy fool, and have told her she will continue to go through life being ripped off unless she toughens her attitude upto these sort of people. :mad:
No not in a professional capacity, I was just getting some info from this person I know concerning the proposed sheltered ahousing development near my home.
After a fairly constructive discussion she said "so I guess you see me as a do-gooder then" I actually disagreed with this, and told her how suprised I was at her views when she didn't have her "work" hat on.
She said as far as she's concerned there is a difference between "Do-Gooders" and people who "Do-Good". I must admit I agree with her entirely.
She said that she works with a lot of Do-Gooders who give people chance after chance after chance. She said if I go out of my was and beyond my duty to help someone because I feel they are being severely disadvantaged, and then they throw it all back in my face, thats the last. She said from that point on she will only do the bare minimum that she requires.
I can relate to my current girlfriend who I consider to be too much of a "Do-Gooder" her and her housemate took pity on another foreign worker, who had found herself homeless. This person had taken a housemates cheque book and written herself one for six hundred pounds, she was caught for this offence and many others came to light when it was investigated. My "Do-Gooder" girlfriend and her housemate took pity on her and let her move in with them because they didn't want to see her deported.
They gave her cash to pay the rent on one occassion, as she used a story about needing to get her hands on some cash that evening and she would write a cheque out for the full amount. The cheque bounced and the other two ended up paying the rent for a second time that month, she has borrowed money off them and there's no chance of getting it back. The latest is the council tax and the water rates, apparently these are in arrears by twelve months!
My girlfriend says she wishes she could be more like me, because I wouldn't of let someone in my house who had stolen money to start with. My girlfriends attitude is "Oh I will have to work overtime to pay the bills"
I think she's a bl**dy fool, and have told her she will continue to go through life being ripped off unless she toughens her attitude upto these sort of people. :mad: