Igor, Master of Understatement has spoken.

He seems to think that just because I lost my temper and shouted at Hench for slandering me that gives him some form of authority over me.

He's wrong about that, but then he's woefully ill-informed by his subordinates. Well, I guess that will teach him not to delegate mitigation to the moron that caused the problem in the first place.

Social Services consider themselves both a safety net for victims, and civil enforcement for protagonists, as well as liaison and signposting for the organisations that make up the social care sector. As a result, they think of themselves as part of local authority.

Unfortunately they are staffed by busybodies and do-gooders with almost zero training - social worker is a vocational career and the best qualification to become one is to be a survivor of something. Speaking from experience, trauma clouds one's judgement of a situation, and psychological damage doesnt qualify anyone as experienced.

Hardly social, and not a lot of service. Luckily, being a civil organisation, they dont have automatic power of attorney and have to apply for it through a judge like anyone does. Even a police officer has limited authority if there is no threat to order and law and only in a public place. I should know, I've spoken to quite a few recently about this as they visited me in my home looking for weapons, evidence of abuse, criminal activities and the like.

Needless to say they didnt find anything but an extremely irate man and his disabled daughter struggling without appropriate resources, with an unbelievable story. Which they then investigated, validated, and reported to Social Services to resolve.

They didnt, so I took the law into my own hands a little and snarled at Hench until he ran and hid behind his supervisor. Well Igor isnt about to admit authorising any of his filth, which is why he reinstalled Hench after allegedly disciplining him while he was suspended for the Ombudsman investigation.

I wondered how he got away with that. Igor gave him a holiday and told him to lay low, did absolutely nothing.

Not this time...