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hi everyone so if you're a long-term
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viewer of mine I'm going to ask that you
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be a little bit patient with me as I try
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to um talk to you about something that's
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very
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important so I'm at Honeyman State Park
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in the Oregon parks and recreation
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department or division I'm not sure what
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the last D is
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for um I've been volunteering here for 2
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months just one week shy of two months
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I've been here February and
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March I have been a model volunteer here
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the volunteers love me the guests love
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me most of the Rangers do but I've had
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some some issues
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here and it all started with a text
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message at 6 o'clock in the morning to
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the park supervisor her name is
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Katie I texted her because the par went
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out here and I needed instruction on how
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to um what I should do you know cuz very
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knew at this volunteering I told her
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that in the eyes of the guests um I own
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this problem you know the power of being
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that's that's my problem and in the eyes
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of the guests is about perception and
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she responded in a very dismissive way
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and I followed up with an email about
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that saying that her response made me
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feel small I didn't even name her I just
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said that response made me feel small
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and ever since then I've had nothing but
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problems
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here
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um that same day she emailed me and
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while I was working in the Welcome
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Center the park manager Ryan came there
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and he started telling me
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that um he started naming the the small
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mistakes I made my first week here very
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simple mistakes that everybody makes but
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you know he's bringing all this stuff up
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trying to make me feel like I'm uh like
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I'm in trouble and and it felt very
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stressful and he stayed there for an
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hour and the whole time I'm thinking
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they're going to throw me out and I
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spent
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the next week just trying to navigate
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that situation trying to um expecting
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them to throw me out at any moment
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because it just seemed like they threw
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everything at me the way they escalated
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that the way my supervisor his name is
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Logan just autom just disappeared all of
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a sudden didn't see him and you know
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just the way that that Ryan came at me
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and and the Welcome Center it it felt
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very intimidating I felt
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intimidated and
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and I just kept trying
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to deescalate the situation because I
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was just here to do a job that I liked
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you know I've been volunteering for the
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park since January and I've got my whole
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year planned around it I've literally
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have Parks lined up every month except
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for two months this
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year and you know I just asked him in an
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email I said can we reset start over and
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they said yes and I thought everything
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was fine and I had a meeting that day
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down at the dayuse area with Logan and
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Katie that went really well I thought
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everything was fine so I applied for a
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job here that night because I I wanted
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to stay here I liked this place a lot I
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I still
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do
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and I don't remember when like you know
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a couple days later I saw Katie and
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Logan at the Welcome Center they were
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working on a project there and Katie
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started asking me about my plans for the
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summer and she's the one that looks at
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that
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applications I Know It Go her I'd
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written her a cover letter and
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everything and because she's asking me
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about my future I thought okay maybe she
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hasn't seen my application so I bring it
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up and then she gets really quiet and
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stops looking at me and I start feeling
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like um rejected like all of a sudden
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like like I'm definitely not wanted here
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so I just start telling her about my my
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past the work I've done things like that
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what she's going to see in the applic
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and all that and just moved on you know
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I went back inside and finished my work
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thing and I just noticed all of a sudden
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after that that some of the Rangers
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started getting distant with me which
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told me that Katie probably told them to
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um keep their distance because now I'm
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an applicant
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and uh Logan told me that he couldn't be
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involved at all so he disappears again
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and I'm like okay well I don't want to
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be somewhere where I'm not wanted you
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know so I withdrew my application and I
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said nothing about it I just let it go
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and then Logan shows up and he spends 90
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minutes in the Welcome Center just
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talking about himself doing stretches in
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front of me all this stuff it just felt
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really awkward
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and
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something something you know it felt
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like he was just like trying
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to bring things back to where they were
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before all this with Katie and the
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application happens and so the next day
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I told him I'll tell you why I withdrew
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my application we went for a walk and I
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just kind of walked him through my life
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why I'm here in Oregon and um why I
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ultimately withdrew it was because I I
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could tell that I wasn't wanted here and
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he just tried to manage my perception he
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made it sound like
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um like I was wrong and it didn't really
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matter like I was trying to tell him
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that you know
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I I'm moving on you know because it
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didn't feel like the right fit for me so
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I was just going to keep doing my job
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until I got to the next Park and then I
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didn't see him for
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weeks
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um trying to remember so after
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that I hadn't seen him for weeks oh okay
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and then there was an incident there was
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not really an incident but so there's a
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a ranger here who just has a very um
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condescending attitude towards me every
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single time I see him he's just very
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condescending and when February came
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about I was switching to a different job
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and I knew that there was a possibility
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he might train me and if you put him in
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a position of authority over me he might
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be even more condescending and I wanted
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to avoid a situation so I told Logan
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about it and Logan told me that uh he
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would have somebody else train me
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which you know put my mind at ease I was
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really happy with that outcome and so a
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couple days later when it's time for me
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to be trained that morning I text that
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person to find out where we're going to
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meet and this person tells me they don't
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know anything about it and I'm like okay
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well I talked to Logan about
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this um it's really important that you
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be the one that trains me and so they
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did this compromise where that Ranger
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was still going to train me but the
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other Ranger would be present and I said
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okay let's do that everything was fine
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um but I felt like like I'd been
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betrayed because that was
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clearly um I was lied to I mean there's
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no other way to put that I was lied to
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and so I sent Logan an email saying that
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he had lost my trust and I laid out all
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the reasons why all the things that I
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just shared in this video and
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then um like a couple days later Katie
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and Ryan take me down to the day us
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Seria at a picnic table and they spent
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an hour bullying me I recorded this
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conversation secretly because I knew
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from my first interaction with Ryan and
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the Welcome Center that that's what was
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going to happen so I I felt like I need
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a documentation I needed to protect
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myself so I recorded the conversation
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believing that I was allowed to and it's
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a gray area we'll get into that but
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there there's
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um it's a little more complicated in
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organ but we'll get to that so I I I
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believed I was allowed to do this
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because we were in a public area and
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they are public officials right so um I
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recorded the conversation and during
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that conversation and they kept saying I
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had a problem with all the Rangers which
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isn't true um and I kept asking for
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examples and the only example they ever
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provided in that whole hour was the
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incident with Katie that's it that's all
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they had was that original incident from
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the first or second week of my time here
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which you know supposed we had let go
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and then um later in the conversation
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Ryan keeps talking about how I have to
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assume positive intent with people and
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that's how I am with everybody and I
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tell him this and then I'm like but are
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you guys assuming that with me you know
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because you're you're just making it
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sound like I'm a problem
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and it didn't feel like they were it
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doesn't feel like they ever did and he
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admitted it he admitted they never had
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um giving me the benefit of the doubt
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and then at the very end of that
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conversation for like 5 minutes he kept
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telling me that I could leave if I
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wanted to he was trying to pressure me
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to leave on my own and I said I will do
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my job and that was it and that was like
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three weeks
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ago um after that meeting I got a phone
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call from uh the regional or like the
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global I don't know what you would call
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it but the person who oversees the
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entire volunteer program and all she did
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was tell me that I wasn't allowed to
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record the conversation that you have to
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tell tell them that you're recording and
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so
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um so here's my ration I think I just
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explained that though
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so it's still kind of to me it's a gray
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area I would need to speak to a lawyer
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about this because um they're public
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officials we are in a public setting and
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I am not a government employee so it's
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unclear so that's something that I would
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need to discuss with a lawyer before I
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can really say more about that um but I
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have the recording and I can always turn
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that into a transcript and I can quote
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anything from it because that's what was
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said and anyway so 3 weeks go by and
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today Ryan called me on the phone saying
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he wanted to set a meeting for me on I
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think he said Thursday which is like
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three days before I'm supposed to leave
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here and I asked him why and at first
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he's not telling me but eventually he
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does and it's because of something I
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said to a ranger last week an offand
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comment that didn't really mean anything
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there was it wasn't an issue issue
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nothing really happened but they're just
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using as a justification to get rid of
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me and that's it and they told me to
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leave so he came over to my RV um I gave
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him my keys he took the golf cart and I
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I recorded that and I told him I was
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recording that so that one I know I can
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use and I'm going to append it to the
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end of this so that you can see it for
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yourself um as far as what was said let
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me explain so I was cleaning yts this
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month and a homeless left behind a
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journal and in the Y and I could tell
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you it was a homeless vet because of
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what was in the journal so I took that
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down to the Welcome Center to the lost
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and found and made an incident report
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and then I wrote a little note for the
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Rangers cuz I was going to drop that off
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in the Box um for whichever Ranger sees
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it and it basically said I actually have
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I I took I documented everything I have
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a picture of my note but my note
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basically said um you know this was left
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behind by a homeless vet please try to
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track them down you know basically look
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in your computers try to call whatever
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numbers associated with their account
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try to track them down because this is
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important and then I um saw a ranger
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technically a ranger assistant driving
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by I flagged her down and she stopped
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and I just wanted her to understand my
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note because at the end of it I put
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please try and I underlined that because
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and so I just said to her not all
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Rangers are helpful I'm not saying
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you're not um I'm saying I said not all
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Rangers are helpful I'm not saying
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you're not cuz I don't know you um but I
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just want to explain that's why I've
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written the note this way this is
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important I said I've been homeless
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before I've had journals I know how
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important these things are and that was
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it and they turned that into the
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justification for kicking me out of
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here um when Ryan Cy did not give me any
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paperwork so it's not even
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official he didn't give me paperwork
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because there is no justification for
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this they just wanted to get rid of me
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they've been wanted to get rid of me
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since the very beginning and they have
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made my life hell the entire time this
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is the truth and I have documented
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everything and because they have
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escalated to this point now I am going
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to file a complaint with the human
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resources department I'm making this
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public and um I'll probably reach out to
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the lawmakers I I will think through
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this because now I'm escalating and I'm
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going to hold them accountable for how
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they treated me because this has been
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the most stressful situation I've ever
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been in and I was just trying to get
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through it because a week from now I go
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to a different Park and then um I could
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just move on that's all I ever wanted to
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do I I did my job really well here every
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single day uh there was one Ranger who
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even slapped me on the back and said I
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have your back and um which told me that
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he knew something you know the the
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leadership was talking about me you know
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about um whatever however you know they
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wanted to frame it and he knew something
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and that really blew my mind cuz I
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barely knew this Ranger I really
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appreciated it it made me feel um like I
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wasn't as isolated as I was feeling and
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um you know he was noting the good work
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I was doing this month and said that he
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had even brought it up to the
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leadership so he tried and I really
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appreciate
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that
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um so I just have one last request I am
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absolutely broke I have nowhere to go
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and I'm supposed to leave within 24
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hours
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my ex-boss I had already talked to him
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before this happened asking if he could
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send me some money because we're working
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together again but he couldn't do
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anything in March he needed some time
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and I'm trying to hold out for him
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because I worked for this man for 10
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years I know I know these projects
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um we can have a long-term future
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together I just have to give them a
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little bit of time but in order to do
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that I you know I needed some money just
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to survive and he said that he would
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send some money tomorrow um it's not a
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lot it's not enough to even cover the
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campground fees for the next week um
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until my next host assignment
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starts so I'm asking my long-term
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viewers if you can help me please help I
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will leave um some links in the comments
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and in the
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description I have to navigate the next
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week until I can get to my next host
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position um hopefully there isn't any
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blowback from posting this but I've just
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I've just shared the truth everything
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I've shared the truth and I have it
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documented all of it so
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um volunteers should not be treated this
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way I'll leave it at
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that Ryan just showed up he's dismissing
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me from this place I'm going to recorded
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this
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documentation hello Ryan I'm recording
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this for
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documentation here's the binder here are
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the keys all right appreciate it
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already um is there anything in the shed
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no no you got all that stuff okay sounds
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good um so I just uh plans for depart
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for you um do you have any paperwork for
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me no uh no paperwork for you no just
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the conversation we had okay well I
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going have to figure out my next steps
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because this was very unannounced and
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unexpected yeah no yeah I understand how
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that could be hard um you know I I was
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trying to set up a being with you on
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Thursday um what is your expectation
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Ryan what's that what is your
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expectation now oh uh for like the
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future so as of right now all the
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hosting Duties are se you know have
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ceased to um host any longer here at
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Honeyman State Park okay um you know but
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with that you know occupying the
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campsite comes along with us host duties
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and so since you're not hosting any
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longer with us you know the expectation
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would be to vate the the site okay and
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when is the deadline uh we give you 24
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hours I think that seems like a
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reasonable amount of time to okay
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shouldn't I have paperwork for this um
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no I you know we had a conversation and
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I'm letting you know now and it sounds
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like you're you're recording it as well
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so yeah felt you know you've thank R
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thank you have a good day
