Being A Victim Of A Crime

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Monday,
Today was a very boring day in fact, I am sure that this whole week is going to be boring. We are closed to the public the entire week because will be attending meetings within the local area. Today our first meeting was with our staff. We exchanged a lot of ideas, well I feel like I was the only person who brought up good ideas. One of the staff members, the idea was that she wanted to start providing transportation for the clients. I feel like that’s a terrible idea, she’s a female and she putting herself in a terrible situation. We regularly work with drug abusers, sexual predators, and people with many other types of felonies. Why would you want to do something like that? I brought this situation up and her response was that she’s not afraid of them. I looked at her like she was the most insane person on the planet. What does that even mean? You don’t have to be afraid of them to be a victim of a crime. I just said okay and kept going because she’s grown and she’s going to do what she wants. I just hope that she treads with caution. After everyone had given their idea, it was my turn, sine I was sitting at the end of the brown colored rectangle table. I suggested several ideas; the first idea was that we should have a rolling PowerPoint on the television since we never use it. My second idea was that we should take the door off the hedges in the lobby that leads to the hallway. The reason that I think we should do that is because it would make the center look

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