My first summer, i was in a unit and me and another counsellor were "In" the unit that night while the others had the night off. Anyway I feel asleep cos I hadn't been feeling well, and the next thing I know the other counsellor had was being yelled at for leaving the unit while she was duty and while I was asleep to go and check her emails. That summer we each got 15 mins a week to check our emails and she used to hog more than her fair share of the slots (ie 2 slots everyday not 1 a week).
Later in the summer half the staff had a huge party on camp with loads of alcohol and smoking (on a session break) but when they got caught they decided to allow the hole staff to be punished rather than own up to being involved.
In 2003 we had several staff who were very lazy. The worst one was the one I worked with was the second session of the summer. I was working with this russian girl and another girl, anyway this girl tended to sit back and do nothing (we all co-lead the unit rather than having a unit) anyway being the kind of person who has to do what needs to be done if no one else is I ended up running the unit cos the other girl had a flare up of glandular fever so was sick all session. This russian girl constantly moaned that I took over and never let her do anything so i started making an effort to let her lead and she didn't but all her breaks were longer than anyone elses. The final straw was on out going day, on that we didnt have time off but we could if we had enough cover go for a shower (no more than 30 mins - away from the unit) , well I had a headache so had decided to sleep instead of shower. Wells she came back from her shower which had taken an hour, lay down on the bed and said the list for closing the unit was in the binder put her walkman on and went to sleep. Meaning I had to help the girls clean the unit cos the other counsellor had no arms so couldn't spray the cleaning fluid cos the camp had a shoes on at all time rule (unless on the beach or showering obviously). I kinds lost my rag!
