Rant #3,694: Nothing's Changed

I don't even want to talk too much about my son's supposed job meeting yesterday--

But I will ... because you need to know just how ludicrous the situation has become for him.

We were planning to go to the meeting, but counselors at two other organizations overseeing my son told me that he should not go to this meeting, because this particular organization turned him down for an assessment, seemingly under false pretenses, and without this assessment, it served absolutely no purpose to go to this meeting.

The assessment is needed to determine what my son's capabilities are in the workplace, so without the assessment, he can't be placed in a position, because his ability to do certain job tasks are unknown--

Which is even more bizarre because he has been working at part-time and seasonal jobs since he was 15 years of age, and he is still working, approaching age 30.

In fact, my son was sent some paperwork to fill out through email with another group that might be doing his assessment, and he filled out whatever they sent him.

Late in the afternoon, we received a phone call from the group thst he was supposed to meet with yesterday, and they said they never turned him down, and they were wondering if he wanted future job services from them.

I told them the story I just told you, and the woman i spoke to said she would contact his counselor and get back to me, which, of course, she never did.

I am fit to be tied about this situation.

The problem is that my son's fate is fully in the hands of these inept people and organizations, and there isn't much I can do about it.

One counselor told me, with barely enough air in her lungs, thst she was planning to take a couple of days off to recuperate from the "rigors" of her workload.

Well fancy that ... imagine if I took days off like this when I was working full time.

Years ago, a parent of a special needs child told me that the only way I was going to get anything done related to my son was "to do everything yourself, because no one is really going to help you."

Believe me, I figured that all out myself pretty quickly, but that situation has certainly been heightened by my current experience.

I know that we have to do it all ourselves, and the fact of the matter is that these organizations have never helped him in the past, so why think things will be different now?

Utter stupidity.

We have another job fair to go to on Thursday afternoon, and we will be there, with bells on.

Or at least I thought we would.

The meeting I thought I had to cover for work on Wednesday has been canceled, replaced by another meeting held on Thursday--

Precisely the same time I was going to take my son to the job fair.

I just don't know what to do right now.

I need some guidance--

But I know not to go to any of these organizations to get it, that's for sure.