Questionable Conduct

Questionable Conduct


AFRA EDITORIALS
Guest editorial by Carolynn J. Middleton BA BSc
March 15, 2011

Questionable Conduct

Dear Friends of AFRA,

The other day I met with a woman, at her home, just as a caseworker from the local CPS arrived to do a follow-up, on a report that was made against her. The worker identified herself and gave the reason for her home visit. Against my advice, she beckoned the worker into her home. She invited her to the dinning room table and we all sat down. My introduction immediately followed, which the worker explained made her uncomfortable with my being present, for this interview. My client merely said, "Well, this is a friend of mine and I'm not about to shoo her away, just so you can have an interview!" That having been said the interview continued.

The worker began to ask a few preliminary questions;

The size of my client's home?
How many people were living here?
What were their names?
Their relationship to my client? etc...
With each question the worker had for this woman, to my surprise, she had a question of her own;

Do you like working for the CPS?
Do you often find no grounds to pursue a case?
A friend of mine is a good wife and mother, yet a CPS worker seemed to find something to get their agency
involved and it's been an arduous situation ever since, would you lie, cheat, commit fraud, or just plain distort the facts, just to make a case for your agency's involvement in my family?
Doesn't it bother you that so many people are needlessly involved with your agency, and you guys draw out cases as long as you can, just to keep yourselves involved in a family's private, personal business?
- and last but not least -

Are you just a bureaucrat, or do you honestly believe in what you are doing?
Would you lie, cheat, and/or distort facts if your supervisor told you to?
If you did, wouldn't you find it hard dealing with your conscience?
Wouldn't you find it hard to sleep at night, knowing what you did?
Would you still go after someone, even if you knew this was a good family?
Would you want others to do onto you, as you have done to others?
Needless to say, the worker became quite insulted by these questions and belligerent towards this lady. There was nothing for me to do but smile, and even laugh a bit, under my breath. It really was funny how this client of mine was putting this poor worker on the spot, through the wringer and in the spot light, as it were. It was even more fun just to watch this worker squirm at this woman's questions.

I have to admit I was not in any way suborning what this woman was doing, but she was very clever, with her approach. By the end of the interview, this worker seemed in a hurry to leave. This woman escorted the worker throughout her kitchen and the rest of her home, then answered the worker's questions carefully, honestly, but with an air of caution, and cleverly composed responses. When the worker left, my client showed me a very small tape recorder, she had hidden beneath the dinning room table. She demonstrated how she had started the tape recorder, before the worker came to the door and was just now turning it off.

My client said she would be making a complete transcript of the conversation and the interview, adding aspects that a mere audio recording could not pick up. She also informed me she would be adding quite a bit of narration to the transcript, in order to reveal just what transpired, visually.

About a week later this woman contacted me to let me know she had just received a letter, informing her this worker found no evidence to substantiate the report that had allegedly been filed against her, that there would be no further involvement with the agency, and that the case was closed. My client seemed quite proud of the way she handled the situation. She wasn't belligerent, she wasn't insulted, she wasn't shocked or overwhelmed, but she was very clever in the way she handled this worker's visit;

I must say...

I'm not saying this will work for most people. In fact, if insulted, a worker is just as likely to turn on the client and make a case, just to be annoying and intrusive. But lo and behold, my client's attitude and behavior was just the ticket, in this situation, and she told me that she was fully prepared to deal with this worker.

I asked her how?

She explained that, between information she had received from THE COMMITTEE, and from various articles and material she had read from AFRA, as well as other websites, she determined she was not going to fall into traps and contrivances that others had become victimized by. When she invited this worker into her home, I found it hard to believe that she was following our advice, but as it luckily turned out for her, she handled this worker very well indeed.

Here's one unusual one, for the record, I guess.

And here's one for us...!

Sincerely,

Carolynn J. Middleton BA BSc
( Executive Secretary )

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