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Agreed with TRH. Get the letter, get the unemployment, say bye, and wnjoy your vacay.
H e l l o I am vet nowYeah, if you or anybody else bug me in May I can also add you to quite a few groups as I'm in a zillion of them for some reason. Including, if anyone is interested, separate pig and poultry groups lol. I think the only big one I'm not on are the horse groups and that's just because I try to keep those away as patients
Oh, and I know this applies to you but also if it does for anyone else, I'm in a Veterinarians with Chronic Disease support group as well if anyone is interested down the road
So I spoke with my boss today and said that I would need a written termination letter if he's going to let me go before my end date of July 1st and he said "you're terminating our verbal agreement that you would work until July 22nd so you can't get unemployment". I reminded him that a verbal agreement is not a contract and I'm being courteous about giving him 6 weeks notice. He's still being rude about it. My question is, does what he say have any truth to it? Or can I still collect unemployment if he fires me before July 1st because I expressed that I am willing and able to work until July 1st and he would therefore be terminating my employment early, resulting in lost wages?Just a bit of an unfortunate update, my boss said "I might do it sooner than July 1st then", implying that he'll fire me. Apparently one of my other coworkers approached him about wanting more hours. I personally just think my boss is mad at me because I was supposed to cover someone else's vacation that last week before I left on the 22nd. But he's also very cheap and tries to make people miserable so that they quit rather than him firing them so that he doesn't have to pay unemployment.
Regardless, I'll be asking for an official termination letter if he does let me go before July 1st so that I can collect unemployment. I also do have some hope though that he won't fire me, seeing as he will do anything in his power to avoid confrontation, so we'll see what happens. It's just very unfortunate that one of my coworkers forced my hand in this.
So I spoke with my boss today and said that I would need a written termination letter if he's going to let me go before my end date of July 1st and he said "you're terminating our verbal agreement that you would work until July 22nd so you can't get unemployment". I reminded him that a verbal agreement is not a contract and I'm being courteous about giving him 6 weeks notice. He's still being rude about it. My question is, does what he say have any truth to it? Or can I still collect unemployment if he fires me before July 1st because I expressed that I am willing and able to work until July 1st and he would therefore be terminating my employment early, resulting in lost wages?
He's really showing his true colors here.
Obligatory #DVMnotJDSo I spoke with my boss today and said that I would need a written termination letter if he's going to let me go before my end date of July 1st and he said "you're terminating our verbal agreement that you would work until July 22nd so you can't get unemployment". I reminded him that a verbal agreement is not a contract and I'm being courteous about giving him 6 weeks notice. He's still being rude about it. My question is, does what he say have any truth to it? Or can I still collect unemployment if he fires me before July 1st because I expressed that I am willing and able to work until July 1st and he would therefore be terminating my employment early, resulting in lost wages?
He's really showing his true colors here.
I second this.I hate packing. I hate moving. That's is all.😊
My technique is just to aggressively throw things away (and/or donate). My partner hates it. But every time I move turns into a "have I used this in the past year? No? Into donations it goes!!" party.I hate packing. I hate moving. That's is all.😊
I have a hack for that too! Just never unpack~I’m with Trilt…I tend to accumulate lots of things but when moving time comes I am a major donate/trash it person. When I left residency I moved with only what would fit in my Honda CRV…now I have so much stuff again that it would take like a medium sized Uhaul to move it again.
Moving does suck though. I kinda enjoy packing early on because I’m excited, but by the end and especially once you get to the loading/unpacking
Phase I’m totally over it. Hopefully I don’t have to move again for years though, and if I do it’s because I build a house out in the country near where I live now. I’m so glad the No manic college/residency life is over.
Yeah this is the plan I prefer as well but it does not work well when my mom helps me move somewhere 🥲I have a hack for that too! Just never unpack~
*looks nervously at my garage*
Im sorry. No matter what, there always seem to be projects and groups of animals that are somehow different. I dont know if this will help, but whenever I worked on a project where I got a little extra attached to the animals I always made sure I went in when I knew I'd be alone to give myselfn time to say good bye, and then I made a donation somewhere that seemed meaningful in their honor when they went down. For one I donated a small amount per animal to a veterinary hospital's charitable care fund, for one study there was a particlar toy the animals seemed to love and I donated a bunch to a shelter, for one I donated some toys and treats to a sanctuary. It may be silly, but I found it helped me to do something to sort of memorialize them.A study I've been helping on is coming to a close and my horses are going down this week. I wasn't expecting to have such a hard time, as I saw this happen many times over when I was in pharmaceuticals, but I almost burst into tears in front of my professor at the barn this morning. Not a hard enough time such that I'm questioning my career choice, but it sucks, nonetheless.
Im sorry. No matter what, there always seem to be projects and groups of animals that are somehow different. I dont know if this will help, but whenever I worked on a project where I got a little extra attached to the animals I always made sure I went in when I knew I'd be alone to give myselfn time to say good bye, and then I made a donation somewhere that seemed meaningful in their honor when they went down. For one I donated a small amount per animal to a veterinary hospital's charitable care fund, for one study there was a particlar toy the animals seemed to love and I donated a bunch to a shelter, for one I donated some toys and treats to a sanctuary. It may be silly, but I found it helped me to do something to sort of memorialize them.
Feel free to ignore me but... reschedule the meetings. Like you said, if it were another illness that affected any other organ system you'd have to reschedule anyway, why are our brains less important?I wanted to take a mental health day today, but I have a lot to do at work (including meetings and trainings with other people that I don’t want to have to reschedule) so it’s not happening. The rest of the week is similarly full. There isn’t usually any “good” day to take off of course and obviously if I were physically ill it wouldn’t matter and I’d have to be off. It’s just a bummer.
You’re totally right and I would give someone else the same advice!Feel free to ignore me but... reschedule the meetings. Like you said, if it were another illness that affected any other organ system you'd have to reschedule anyway, why are our brains less important?
I get it, it sucks, and when you get back to work after a day off it just feels like now you have 2 days worth of work to do in 1 day but having a day at home to rest your brain, walk outside in the sunshine, disconnect from the stresses at work, can be so so worth it.
Always here if you want to chat about things too.
Never attribute to malice what could equally be attributed to stupiditySo fb memories informed me I graduated high school 10 years ago and I decided to go see if my class ended up planning anything in the facebook group they made a year or two ago that ya know, no one invited me to. They did indeed plan a reunion of sorts this weekend (doesn't look like many people are going). And in one of the comments one of the people says that everyone should "make sure to reach out to anyone that isn't on facebook".
Well ya know, I am on facebook. I'm facebook friends with a good number of you. I treated one of your pets as a vet student last year. I was literally middle school best friends with the girl who started the group and y'all still didn't remember to invite me.
I'm not even sure I would have wanted to go but I can't pretend it doesn't sting to be this forgotten about.
Never attribute to malice what could equally be attributed to stupidity
Maybe they just genuinely thought you were already in the group?
Sending all the good vibes for BatBaby to figure out that 6/13 would be a fantastic birthday because they’d have Friday the Thirteenth birthdays every now and then 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼Not a true, true rant as it's just me being inpatient. But.....
I am going to ducking revolt if this baby doesn't come today. I was originally all about waiting and giving it time. It's not even that pregnancy was bad for me or that I'm super miserable. I'm physically doing great, tbh. But we've done the 40.5 weeks of waiting. I realized over the weekend that I'm over waiting. We have an induction appointment on Wednesday, but that's, like, 88 hours away.
So could Baby Bat figure their shenanigans out today?
I was 100% ready to be done with both of my pregnancies and also had membrane sweeps done at 39 weeks because I was that impatient. Had both of my kids within 48 hours of the sweep so... something to consider?Not a true, true rant as it's just me being inpatient. But.....
I am going to ducking revolt if this baby doesn't come today. I was originally all about waiting and giving it time. It's not even that pregnancy was bad for me or that I'm super miserable. I'm physically doing great, tbh. But we've done the 40.5 weeks of waiting. I realized over the weekend that I'm over waiting. We have an induction appointment on Wednesday, but that's, like, 88 hours away.
So could Baby Bat figure their shenanigans out today?
We have an induction appointment Wednesday at 5pm (pending no changes), which would put us at 40 weeks, 6 days. I just didn't realize how impatient I would become this last weekend. And today is my husband's birthday and we were low key hoping for matching birthdays 🤣
Waiting for the overcooked baby to come out is the wooooorst!!! Well lucky for you, the baby will be out before you have to spend the entire summer 3rd trimester pregnant no matter when baby comes. Silver liningsWe have an induction appointment Wednesday at 5pm (pending no changes), which would put us at 40 weeks, 6 days. I just didn't realize how impatient I would become this last weekend. And today is my husband's birthday and we were low key hoping for matching birthdays 🤣
alright world, seriously, what the ****.The owner of the FOURTH patient I diagnosed with cancer tonight (likely carcinomatosis and the liver was absolutely loaded with nodules on ultrasound) sob-laughed and said she can't imagine having my job, with all the bad news I have to deliver.
Gotta admit, that definitely struck a chord this night of all nights. What a sad, horrible ****show I'm directing.
It’s so dependent on the pharmacy staff (except for Walmart who will not take goodrx coupons for pets no matter what). Super worthwhile to find the pharmacy in your area that is pet friendly. There’s a cvs I know that is amazing. The staff will proactively look for the best discount program including goodrx for each pet prescription I send in.So one of my dogs needs antibiotics. We don't carry the correct size for her in clinic so I send out a prescription with the intent of using a goodrx coupon. Call the pharmacy in advance to check if they'll accept it for a pet rx. They think it'll be fine. Well, I show up and they insist they can't run the coupon without an NPI which of course does not exist for this rx. I call goodrx and they're completely useless in helping and essentially just tell me (after half an hour) that it won't work so try another pharmacy. I call the pharmacies in advance because if I'm going to another one I don't want to show up and find myself in the same situation. Well, one of them had no idea if it would work and the other just assumed it wouldn't. But we're looking at like 100 bucks retail price for this rx which is ridiculous. So I finally find out that costco has the rx for a reasonable price before discount and just move it over there... and costco runs the goodrx coupon without me even asking and I should be be able to pick it up tomorrow. Such a headache.
Oh and also my young dog now has kennel cough (probably picked up at a show last week) so here's hoping the older two are spared.
It’s so dependent on the pharmacy staff (except for Walmart who will not take goodrx coupons for pets no matter what). Super worthwhile to find the pharmacy in your area that is pet friendly. There’s a cvs I know that is amazing. The staff will proactively look for the best discount program including goodrx for each pet prescription I send in.
Costco is generally super cheap and you don’t even need to be a member to use their pharmacy. I like that they carry a lot of animal labeled products too. If you live in the land of wegman’s, they’re pretty good too. Same thing, also carries pet products.
I got a Facebook message AND Instagram follow request from a VetIQ recruiter. LEAVE ME ALONE ON SOCIAL MEDIA.I dont know on what page we were ranting about recruiters contacting us outside of business hours. I just got a text message at my PERSONAL number from a recruiter who is an RVT AND its 950pm at night. No clue how they got my number. Brought to you by the letters W,T and F😡
Replied with a professional-this practice is very unprofessional pls remove me and proceeded to block the number🙃
I’ll second this.Fireworks. That's the rant.
okay and my poor drugged up dog hiding under the bed because he can't escape from the scary booms and my heart is so sad for him
Is that not covered in your contract?Fulfilling CE requirements for license renewal is soooooooo expensive! And that's on top of the crazy $500 renewal fees for my state....
My contract only gives me $500 allowance to cover CE, licensing, subscriptions, etc. The amount only covers my state renewal fees, so CE will be all out of pocketIs that not covered in your contract?