My first sucky customer (language)

[April]

At this job at least

Part of my job is getting people up for kitchen duty. Basically, if you don't have a job, are new, are on total grounds (you got in trouble, before your hearing) or have hours to work off (after your hearing) You are on the list for kitchen duty.

Normally, people know it's coming. They know they have hours or whatever, and are pretty easy to wake up. Heck some of them volunteer, which makes my job that much easier.

Anyhow, on Friday night, some guy blew numbers and was on total grounds for 72 hours or until his hearing, whichever event happened first. So on saturday morning he had kitchen and he also had kitchen duty this morning.

It goes like this:

412 AM (whispering) *bob. Bob. wake up. BOB. BOB are you awake? Yes? You have kitchen. i need you ready by 430

4:35 AM (whispering) Bob. BOB. I need you ready for kitchen RIGHT NOW

Bob: Yeah, ok

Bobs roomates "Get UP"

5:00 AM (whispering, flashlight in face) Bob, I need you up now, this is a staff directive. If you are not up at the office in 10 minutes, you will be written up.

Bobs roomates "Man, get your ass out of bed" (they were tired of being woken up , poor guys)

So 510 comes and goes and I begin write up procedures. It is a major write up, as disobeying a staff directive. At 515 he strolls in the office and starts cussing out the other tech about me "threatening" him. It bvasically goes like this

Bob: I don't give a fuck, a write up is a write up, just fucking write me up, just don't fucking threaten me with shit. She fucking threatened me and I'm not going to deal with that shit, fuck you all"

So other tech had to write him up for the cussing AT us.

He finally makes it to kitchen, and we get a call from the kitchen lady saying he told her, if he is written up, he's not going to do kitchen that morning. Other tech told him that we will discuss it when kitchen is over. But if he returned for 730 AM he would be written up AGAIN. I was off at 6, so I don't know if he came back early or not, but as this morning was his 4th and 5th write up in 3 days, I don't even know if he will still be there by the time I go in. He might have been sent back to jail. Or he might have escaped. Guess I will find out in a couple hours!

*names changed to protect the stupid

[Crazeyal]

People in prison are kinda known for having "ISSUES" with authourity. You did your best to give him a chance, there should be plenty of people willing to replace him.

[blas]

I could never do what you do.

I'd probably already be in prison myself for assaulting an inmate for calling me a bitch. Damn those rights criminals have....

[bigjimaz]

Joe Arpaio in Phoenix has the right idea. Everyone has the right to 3 things. Food, shelter and clothing. They get 3 bologna sandwiches and 3 pieces of fruit a day, they get pink and black uniforms to wear and they sleep in tents in the desert. That's it, PERIOD.

[mischugenah]

Joe Arpaio in Phoenix has the right idea. Everyone has the right to 3 things. Food, shelter and clothing. They get 3 bologna sandwiches and 3 pieces of fruit a day, they get pink and black uniforms to wear and they sleep in tents in the desert. That's it, PERIOD.

Eh, kinda. I'm from Arizona and have a friend who served time. Now, he doesn't mind bologna sandwiches, he ate them all the time in regular life. But, he said, this went way beyond trimming things to the basics. You had to pick bits of mold off the bread and the meat was slimy because it was left out too long. Sorry, that doesn't seem right to me.

[Banrion]

Eh, kinda. I'm from Arizona and have a friend who served time. Now, he doesn't mind bologna sandwiches, he ate them all the time in regular life. But, he said, this went way beyond trimming things to the basics. You had to pick bits of mold off the bread and the meat was slimy because it was left out too long. Sorry, that doesn't seem right to me.

I have a hard time believing that. According to the Maricopa County website, Tent City houses 2000 inmates. That is 6000 slices of bread a day. Unless they are intentionally letting bread sit for days on end for the purpose of molding, it's not happening. Being how extensively this particular prison has been watched and investigated due to the many complaints of cruel and unusual punishment, if it was happening we would have heard of it from someone other than inmates.

[ThePhoneGoddess]

I lived in Phoenix, too, about 10 years ago. They were investigating the tent jail then. Basically what I read in the local papers was that the main problem was that most of the people in the tent jail weren't even convicted of anything. Most of them had been charged with minor stuff but couldn't afford to post bail so they had to sit until their court time. Some of these people were undoubtedly released because the court dismissed their charges due to various reasons. But I remember that's what people were most upset about, that the hardened criminals in the federal prisons were being treated better than these people who had been accused---not convicted---of things like shoplifting or passing bad checks.

[April]

Update to the story....After I left for the day, he came back from kitchen at 645, which means a new write up. As the tech is writing him up, she smells alcohol, makes him take another BA and he is blowing numbers again. which means the FOURTH write up of the day.

I know he didn't have the alcohol when he left for kitchen (it's up the road, it serves 2 other facilities as well) and I can't figure out where he got it at 645 in the morning. it's not like the liquor stores are open. He would have had to walk a little ways to get to a gas station, but I think there are laws against selling alcohol before 9 or 10 AM.

[AFpheonix]

I have a hard time believing that. According to the Maricopa County website, Tent City houses 2000 inmates. That is 6000 slices of bread a day. Unless they are intentionally letting bread sit for days on end for the purpose of molding, it's not happening. Being how extensively this particular prison has been watched and investigated due to the many complaints of cruel and unusual punishment, if it was happening we would have heard of it from someone other than inmates.

You neglected to consider that they were getting food that was old before it was even shipped to them.

[Primer]

Update to the story....After I left for the day, he came back from kitchen at 645, which means a new write up. As the tech is writing him up, she smells alcohol, makes him take another BA and he is blowing numbers again. which means the FOURTH write up of the day.

It sounds to me like he WANTS to go (back) to jail!

Is there any chance he may have gotten any alcohol in the kitchen, say from vanilla extract or something?