Human Services - Discuss Online
discuss.online
Welcome to Human Services! This is a space for professionals in all areas of Human Services: Direct Support Professionals, Employment Specialists, Case Managers, Supports Coordinators, and more. Whether you’re here to share experiences, seek advice, vent frustrations, or discuss best practices, this is your community. What We Discuss: - Job insights, challenges, and success stories - Tips for navigating bureaucracy and red tape - Ethical dilemmas and advocacy discussions - Resources, training, and career development - Funny stories - Rants about the field Rules: - Be respectful, remember we’re all people - No personal info, no client-identifying details. - No spam - Political discussions should be relevant to human services issues - Have a sense of humor
  • gimmelemmy@lemmy.world
    1·
    21 hours ago

    Hi! I’m not sure if you intended it this way, but your shows up in “discuss online”, and in order for me to comment where the other two comments are, it is asking me to sign in, which I already am

    You’ll notice that those 2 comments, including your intro, are not here where this comment is

    Is this community somehow separate from Lemmy?

    If it is, I can say that my involvement will be zero, unless I can comment with ease, without logging into another system

    Sorry I’m confused but I’m sorta new to all of this as well

    • dick_finemanOPEnglish
      1·
      21 hours ago

      …?

      So I’m pretty fucking new too.

      I think Discuss is part of Lemmy?! But, I do not really have a fucking clue. I registered on there and can comment here easily? And the main page for them says “A general purpose Lemmy instance for discovery, fun, & sharing. It’s a Lemmy place for all.” So…?

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
        1·
        11 hours ago

        Welcome! The correct format for posting links to communities over here is like this: !human_services@discuss.online (the exclamation point is important!)

        That will ensure that anyone clicking it opens it on their home instance and can reply as normal. Direct linking the url will take you to the community as viewed from the discuss.online instance, and those who don’t have an account there will be prompted to log in. Makes sense?

    • dick_finemanOPEnglish
      1·
      21 hours ago

      No, see, as the workers we are the Human Sacrifices for the service. It’s complicated. But stick around, I promise we get shit on and punched in the face at various times.

      • gimmelemmy@lemmy.world
        2·
        16 hours ago

        I’ve been in the field for over 20 years. Managed to dodge the shit, but I DID get my thumbnail bitten off once, and the same guy give a select few of us matching scars on the backs of our hands where he sank his teeth in and then tried to rip the flesh off the bone

        Good times

        • dick_finemanOPEnglish
          1·
          11 hours ago

          When I worked residential, we had a biter. Never actually got me, but he did bite his mom’s lip off when she tried to give him a kiss.