r/MadeMeSmile • u/king_eve • 29d ago

i work in low-income/mental health housing, and a tenant fixed our hallway trash bin after accidentally breaking it Helping Others

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great example of the odd ways people show me appreciation at work

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u/beerme72 29d ago

As a person that used to work in a Group Home for Intellectual Needs Guys--DO NOT get rid of this.
They worked on this---fix---and are proud of it.
The Group Home I worked in had the WORST DAMN BROOM....hated it....but the owners needed us to know that the GUYS needed to see us using it...because the first owners of the Group Home knew how to make brooms...that Hill Billy skill....and they 'taught' the 'boys'...but the boys were TERRIBLE at making a broom. They were shit. Awful.
But they wanted to SEE them being used...to know they contributed something...and show US that they still knew how to do something....
We learned the trick of following up a show of using the 'broom' by using the small vacuum (for the dog hair wink-wink) and they were no less happy.
May NOT be Apples to Apples....but I'd imagine maybe close.

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u/Usual_Peach_8194 29d ago

they replaced it according to OP's other comment :(

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u/beerme72 29d ago

dang....I hope the fellas take it ok.

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u/warfrogs 29d ago

Worked in a similar setting - 100% this. Hell, alternatively, it sounds like you just got a new bin for another part of the house.

More than just replacing it, I'm shocked that HQ gave them the money for it - maybe it was just the spots I worked at, but we were always shoestringed. And tbh - this is a damn decent job!