I love my job very much

But it can be draining sometimes

Not the things most people would find draining. I don’t think most people could de with mental patients, much less those that have committed sometimes horrible and violent crimes

Or the endless stream of nonsense excuses they constantly use to try and get out of court order drug screens because they know they’ll pop hot

But that’s never what bothers me. What bothers me is when no one listens to us despite this literally being our specialty

Were the place people go when everyone else gives up on them

And sometimes we say a person is currently beyond help and needs to be put back in a facility or jail because they’re dangerous

It’s rare but it happens

And when it does we’re rarely listened to because

And it basically always ends in tragedy

Just like it did this last time, because we just don’t have beds or money

Well I’m sure the dead man’s family will take comfort that the rich won’t suffer any undue tax burden though as they bury their son because we couldn’t afford to save him with a hospital with one single more bed

But at least rich people can go to space, right?