I love hearing the CEO of my agency talk to outsiders about the agency. It’s like listening to a preacher tell you the glories of the social work. Just like some preachers in current news, sometimes he slips up and says something truly WTF. He was telling a group of European counselors about the agency and he said “West Siiiide!” You know what I mean. Like he suddenly slipped from preacher mode to gangsta mode. Actually, he said it more than once. On purpose. I’m sure these counselors had no idea why he was talking like that, why the West Side is the best side or why these silly Americans are ethnocentric to think that a group of professional older Europeans would have any knowledge of West Siiide life.
Other fun things: we have a transgender client and I have been called upon to educate the management team. I volunteered myself for this task because I couldn’t handle the pronoun switching and the upset over which bathroom she would use. I guess it is pretty naive just to think that since we are an urban, non-faith based social service agency, that we would be able to handle a trans client. I have a lot of work to do. Every time someone uses the wrong pronoun or switches pronouns, I cringe and I am on the verge of developing a facial tic.