Working Woman

Now that Leina has a full time job, her communication has decreased, as have all the favors she had been doing for her friends and family. The questions has been asked, What is Leina doing at work? She is doing adult protective services, specializing in financial abuse. This involves situations where it is suspected that people who are weak or senile or mentally impaired are being taken advantage of by others, who steal, con, or swindle them out of their money. The perpetrators are usually not strangers, just unscrupulous relatives or friends.

So Leina has several clients whom she visits, and tries to make sure that this isn't happening or that it stops. Sometimes she keeps track of her clients for several months, sometimes she just visits once. She gets to drive a city vehicle that says S.F. Protective Services on it, so when she pulls up, everyone in the neighborhood thinks she's coming to take away a child. She had to go to Hunter's Point twice on Monday and was a little concerned that a little Japanese girl wouldn't be welcomed there, but it went okay. Her only uncomfortable situation so far happened when there was a scary wife who was suspected of taking advantage of her ill husband, but Leina handled the situation well and there was no yelling nor any confrontation.