You hit all her nail on the head! Particularly on refocus on her.
Those types of irresponsible short-termers are often the ones that show up late day after day or take days off without Manager’s OK regardless of the work schedule.
I actually do think she wrote this herself. I know a lot of people who hover at the poverty level, and many are very articulate and quite passionate. They are bad at math for the most part, but this sounds like a very smart person who just hasn’t gotten her crap together.
And I’m going to go out on a limb and describe some other things that is going on in her life:
Smoking
Drinking
Tattoos
Marijuana
Now I know people will say “Hey, there is nothing wrong with X! I have/do X and I’m not on foodstamps!”
Fair enough. But of the scores of people I have met who would be in a similar situation to hers, 75%+ are smokers, 90%+ are drinkers (not alcoholics, they just like their beer/wine/tequila), 95%+ sport tattoos, and well over 50% smoke a little weed now and again.
Those habits are part of a culture, the culture of the working poor. When I pointed that out to some people who were in it, their response was “everybody smokes, drinks, has ink, and smokes a little every once in a while.”
Percentage of adult smokers in America: 17.8%
Percentage of adult drinkers in America: 67%
Percentage of adults with tattoos in America: 14%
(Ages 18 - 25: 36%, Ages 26 - 40: 40%)
Percentage of adults who smoke marijuana in the last month in America: 5.2%
The culture that says that these things as a group are “normal” is the same culture that sees it as “normal” to go through two to three jobs a year. This is a cultural problem.