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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • In an appointment with my psychiatrist doing the questionnaire, they were asking the questions, and I’d answer and they’d fill it out.

    At one of the questions they say “this one is about fidgeting/not being able to sit still and I’m just gonna go ahead and fill that one in.”

    I was like, “but I’ve been sitting still. I thought I was doing a good job sitting still, wasn’t I?”

    Looks me dead in the eyes, “no, no you weren’t.”


  • A previous job of mine wanted people in my team to volunteer for being on call overnight for a week at a time.

    No-one did, so they forced us. I emailed all managers involved including HR I said that I would like to opt-out for various reasons like family, mental and physical health, and also that the pay was in no way adequate for what they wanted. Again they pushed, so I replied with I’ll do it but would be unavailable most afternoons and evenings with my kids and things they have on. That I also won’t be able to answer after going to sleep because I take my mental health very seriously and need quality sleep to function.

    So the first night I slept peacefully as I normally do as I have my phone set to go to DND automatically. I got called in because I didn’t answer a call that came in last night, I asked when it was, about midnight, and said well that’s because I was asleep.

    Go to the next 2 mangers up, say the same thing and they say that I need to answer. I explain the email stating that I would be unable to answer calls at many times including when asleep and how no-one replied with that being a problem. One of the managers was like, wait up, you flagged this; yup; can you send me the email chain; yup. Got removed and told I wouldn’t need to worry about doing it anymore.

    It found a new job shortly after that.