Select Quotations

“I prefer to stay quiet to prevent retaliation” 

“I am afraid they are going to retaliate against me” 

“They make you pay” 

“No matter what you say, they will make you pay for it” 

“Can’t say their names. Don’t want to pay the price.” 

“They will come at me”   

“It backfires on you” 

“Residents get chewed at when a concern is voiced”  

“I feel like I am retaliated against when I complain” 

 “You did not want to be on the wrong side when it went off” 

“I was worried that she would try to kill me by overmedicating me” 

“Filing grievances was pointless as staff back each other up when asked about a situation and then become total terrors” 

“It was like she was out for blood”  

“Never saw such evil”  

A blind resident “put through hell” for reporting incorrect dosage of blood pressure medication 

“If I told you what she has done to me, she would just make my life worse” 

“I didn’t like to complain because it would come back to haunt me, the staff would retaliate”  

“You have to be careful of what you say around here, it will come back to you” 

“They would just gang up on you like a pack of wolves” 

“Oh, it will come back on me. It would be abusive, it would be bad. She would figure out a way where I couldn’t defend myself.” 

“I am literally afraid of her. She intimidates. Are you sure nothing is going to happen to me?” 

“I felt threatened for my life” 

“Terrified of being evicted and feels powerless and helpless”  

“This is my home. I do not want to live here, and I fear retaliation.”  

“What am I supposed to do when you leave? I still must live here. I don’t want to talk anymore”