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I was really shocked to find out that a member of staff who was asked to leave (well, fired!) last year had re-applied this year! And she couldn't understand why they wold not re-hire her!

Ummmm. I wonder why? If I had been fired from somewhere i wouldnt reapply the next year!

ouch! I can't believe that!

Then again we had a staff member who was fired and this spring approached the CD and asked if he re-applied if he would be considered for hire. There were some extenuating circumstances though, that may have been reason to not fire him.

i think i would be so embarrassed to be fired regardless of the circumstances that i wouldn't dream of reapplying

you would think, but apparently not!

We fired a staff member last year for being verbally abusive to campers, and she is back on the ACA job website this year, lying about her certifications, and even asked the office director for a reference!

Oh my goodness - that is really bad!

some people will never learn.

Clearly - sad really cos it says to me that they are working at camp for the wrong reasons - otherwise they wouldnt have been fired in the first place, and certainly wouldnt be lying to get a new job!

that is true.

The thing I dont get is this: If you arent doing camp for the kids then why do it cos it isnt exactly the best paid job in the world - but then we dont do it for the money we do it for the campers (and the love)!

That's kind of what I was wondering! The job is horrible if you aren't doing it for the campers and the love of camp!

There was guy at my camp last year who had to work in an English speaking country for 3 months to complete his degree and hated every minute of camp. He must have had some idea of what it was all about before he signed up for it.

The camp I work at has very few staff, so if you don't get along with someone, it can get bad fast. So, my friend who was a unit leader last summer got stuck with a CIT who she didn't get along with. This CIT was old enough to be staff but I guess she hadn't earned the position.
Anyways, the CIT asked for some time off from my friend and she said yes. The CIT didn't come back. My friend comes to find out her CIT had gone to hang out with another CIT in the lodge.
When my friend confronted her CIT, the CIT had changed her story around saying she had asked to go bring the other CIT something. My friend knew she was lying and was like "Just be honest with me." But the CIT broke down sobbing and making a scene! This was all happening during dinnertime, outside the lodge. The CIT started screaming at my friend about how she isn't a child and shouldn't be treated like one! So, that pushed my friend over the edge and I had to hold her back from fighting with this girl!
It was crazy!

A nurse was talking about one of my campers and the medication she was on, and how the nurse didn't think that the camper needed it... this all happened in the very public bath house at one end of the sinks. Meanwhile, the camper she was talking about happened to be brushing her teeth at the other end of the sinks. Needless to say, my camper came back in tears, and the nurse was asked to leave.

That is so horrible! Any talk that isn't public stuff should be talked about away from the campers and possibly other staff too. Or if you do talk in public areas make sure there are no campers there and you can monitor when a camper does come close enough to hear.

I know!! And it was over meds....so not in HIPPA regulations either...

I had a nurse at camp who was farely hopeless - I injured my ankle and when i went for ice she didnt look at it - a week later when i was still in alot of pain and icing it the way she looked at it was through 2 bandaged she barely even touched the joint and was like you've sprained it! Without even examining it properly! It took months for it too heal so i think perhaps I tore the ligament rather sprained it!

that's awful!
i have been blessed to have fantastic health staff in all my years at camp!

I liked our nurses last summer - except that I had to lie to them and tell them i could breath better when i couldn't cos otherwise they would have sent me to hospital for a condition that wasnt covered by my insurance.

ahh that's not good!

hahah sneaky i like it

You gotta do what you gotta do - and i couldn't afford to spend potential thousands of dollars on hospital bills - even if it meant that i continued to struggle to breathe!

oh man, that's a tough call to make.

that would be tough! i have been lucky so far and haven't really had any injuries or illnesses that were even close to bad! Never broken a bone either! (knock on wood!)