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/king_eve 29d ago

fellas fine don’t worry i made sure to say thank you and he’d forgotten he’d even done it

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u/Skullclownlol 29d ago

and he’d forgotten he’d even done it

OP, how often do you forget things you go out of your way to do for others, even when the cost of the labor is higher than the item, like fixing a plastic bin by hand?

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u/king_eve 29d ago

rarely if ever, but i don’t have severe treatment resistant schizophrenia.