I took a vet assistant certification course. One entire 3 hour class was dedicated to dealing with mental health and possible stressors in the field. One of my professors at one point said that part of the job was knowing when to take a bathroom break or go to grab some paperwork so you can cry away from clients and come back and be professional to their faces
I just finished writing a comment about our staff taking turns going to the bathroom to cry so we could hold it together in front of the clients! You gotta do with you gotta do 😭
The full phrase is "The Customer is always right in terms of taste." So if they want to eat something vile and they enjoy it, let them. Bad Customers who accidentally punish themselves are the best kind.
@@ShadowReignhart There are many versions of the phrase: Customer is always right; Give the women what she wants; the customer is never wrong. Restaurants and the early department stores found in the late 1800's that it wasn't worth fighting with a lot of these assholes. Individual orders aren't worth anything in terms of revenue loss, but they can slow the whole operation down to a crawl. If it's a real problem just make note of it and have security deal with it next time.
When Sam Walton said the customer's always right he didn't mean about everything he meant as in they know what they want.. I hate how people misinterpret that all the time
"The Customer is always right in matters of taste" is an old saying from British economist Adam Smith in the mid 1700's. It's only about stocking a business and/or what services a business provides. Basically you sell what your customers want to buy and not what you want to sell. The saying that people mistake "the customer is always right" for is the American saying "The Customer is King" where you have to do anything and everything the customer wants to get a sale.
Dude: "Go ahead, call the cops, you guys need to be arrested and taught a lesson!!" Police: **Arrests the dude instead** OP: "Congratulations, you played yourself."
My aunt was a vet tech for a long time and has been next to thousands of animals when they have been put down. Lots were from the pound, and others from families, she said to this day, no matter if it was the first time seeing the animal to it being one of her's, it never gets easier.
It's a small comfort that so many owners stay in the room till the end. I'm already dreading the day we have to say goodbye to my dog. I know it's going to ruin me. 😪 But I can't imagine not being there. And god forbid something happens to me or my husband before her. Their lives are meant to be shorter than ours. It seems unfair, but I will take me missing her over her missing me.
As a former vet tech, this is true. It never gets easier, but it's not supposed to. I have some of my past patients paw prints tattooed anong side my own kiddos. They all meant a lot to me even if I knew then for a day ❤
Story 4: As someone who's attempted self-deletion, I felt so bad for those students! The way that teacher acted just played into the lies that depression tells people. "This pain will never end." "It's never going to get better." "You can't escape this." I'm SO glad he got fired, and hope that everyone else is doing better.
One in six vets have considered self-deletion. Male vets are 1.6 times more likely to commit than the general population, female vets are 2.4 times more likely. Among vet nurses, females are 2.3x, and male vets nurses "win" at being 5 times more likely to attempt. And the scariest thing is, that vet professionals are more likely to succeed on the first try. I try and pay very close attention to my coworkers. I think everyone in this field should be in therapy, just to have that support.
@@JC-dg3xd Absolutely! Depression can make you confuse perception with reality. If you feel like your pain is never going to end, you need lots of support to help you realize things WILL get better. That it isn't all that's going to be in your life.
@@JC-dg3xd Considering these statistics, you'd think the schools would provide therapy for each student. This should be mandatory and fully paid for by the school. If the student is found to have poor mental health, i.e. displaying any form of suicidal ideation, they shouldn't be allowed to graduate or practice in this field for their own safety.
As someone who has attempted self deletion multiple times, the pain doesnt end, but it does get better. A lot better. I have bad days but i dont hurt myself anymore and i havent wanted to attempt in a year. It takes work and practice but its so worth it. Little tweaks to your daily routine and thoughts will help. You dont have to do what everyone else does. Do what helps you take care of yourself best. My best right now is brushing my teeth and showering thrice a week, doing laundry when i have no underwear left, doing dishes when i have none left, and cooking when i have the energy. Cooking makes me happy. Its not the "american dream" that everyone thinks their life should be, though. I was taught that laundry/chores are every sunday, i cook every night, i brush my teeth and shower every morning and night, i just dont have the energy for that. Do what you can, dont push yourself too hard and burn yourself out. It's okay to take it day by day. It's okay to have bad days. It'll get better, love, i promise 💜 youre worthy of love and happiness
The last duty a pet owner has to their pet is to ensure the pet is put to sleep when their quality of life becomes poor. My wife and I have had many cats and we've always made sure that when life wasn't enjoyable any more that they be put to sleep. And yes, we cried every time we did that because we'd just lost a family member.
@@peterhobson3262 Before I became a pet owner for the first time, no one told me nor did I have any idea how much a part of the family a pet becomes. Had my cat for 15 years, from when he was 2 months old, and when it came time to say goodbye, I was so gutted. Still am two years later. I never expected to feel like I actually lost a child but I absolutely did. I couldn't imagine being a vet so I absolutely have all the respect for them and how they help us.
I've put down 4 pets. Hurts every time. With my most universally loved cat ( even my dad loved him & that's saying a lot) my brother took me down & was in the room with me. At 1 point this 6'2" truck driver reaches for some kleenex - gives 1 to me, keeps 1 himself & gives the last to the vet. I couldn't be a vet. God bless them.
I've never had a pet but fostered a kitten for two weeks. That time was enough for me to fall in love with him, even tho he shit my bed once lol. I can't imagine the pain I would feel if I had to watch him get sick or old and have to be put down. My eyes water even to the thought of it, my condolences to all of you.
The cheeseburger without cheese story: funnily enough the opposite happened to me before. I once went to a school where the building we had most of our class at was situated the farthest away from any cafeteria or on-campus food places except for the one burger stand, so whenever we had to get a quick snack between our classes, the classes in that building would usually buy from there. So one day, I decided I wanted to get a cheeseburger. This was around the afternoon, it was hot, and I just wanted to get the day done, so I was just going on autopilot at the time. When I went to the burger stand, I asked the guys there for "One cheese, please." I've bought multiple times there and said the same thing every time, I've even heard a bunch of other people order the same way, but I guess because it wasn't too busy when I ordered, the guys there decided to mess with me. They quickly grabbed one slice of cheese from their cooler and presented it to me, "Here you go, miss." Since I was already pretty checked out at the time, the first thing that I thought was that they were quick, so I quickly grabbed my money from my pocket and tried to hand it to the guy, but when I saw what he was holding, I was confused what it was. It wasn't in a paper bag like it usually was, it didn't have buns, and it was yellow all over. I looked at it for a good few seconds before looking at the guy and asking, "What's this?" The guy just chuckled and told me, "It's your cheese. You said you wanted one, right?" That was when I realized what I had said and that they had fully complied to my request. I just laughed because it was pretty funny, and then I clarified that I wanted one cheeseburger, and I got my quick snack in the end. After that day though, I always made sure to ask for "One cheeseburger, please." Just to be sure. 😂
Funny thing is the local Wendy's doesn't have a hamburger meal. Just a cheeseburger meal. so if you want a plain hamburger combo meal you HAVE to order the cheeseburger without cheese.
I love doing this to people. There so many things we say and do on automatic that when someone takes them and literally do what they request it causes all sorts of 'tilt' lights to start flashing. One that I do with retail cashiers is when they ask "How are you?" I would respond by checking myself for a fever and how my pulse is doing. The rest you can figure out.
@@1961casey I do something similar with people that usually either gets a laugh or a small head tilt / deer in the headlights expression. Usually when people ask me if "is there anything else I can help you with?" I usually respond with "Yes, but nothing legal" or to that effect.
Story 5: Yeah, I don't know what sort of legitimate reason could justify trying to make the class skip lunch and be at the lab an hour early. Like, was it an attempt at power or something?
Once, I had a tow truck driver put a boot on my car 15 minutes before the no parking in that spot started. I was leaving my friend's and walked over to my car, and he was putting it on. He said he could only take it off if I paid him. Being young and naive, I did, but really wish I would have fought it.
The city I live is full on abusive about winter lot parking. They will ticket and tow you even well inside posted "safe to park" hours. Residents have gone to city meetings about it plenty of times and they just say "oh well, who's going to overrule us?" No shock some of the councilmembers just happen to be pals with certain local tow company owners.
The only time I ever remember seeing my mother cry was when we went to the vet to put down our dog, who was a big dog we have for 13 years. He lived well past his prime and it was hard seeing him go.
My 8th grade science teacher once said "Say what you mean and mean what you say" and that was 45 years ago. Now, whenever an officer asks "Can I see your ID?" I say "I don't know what you can or cannot see".
Me and my wife got stopped by police. The officer rattled of his standard questions and when he asked "Have you been drinking tonight?," my wife looked him square in the eyes and said "Yes, a coke some water." At first he was a little stunned but then he had to laugh and he waved us off :D
I fully agree with you on the last story, Rslash. People who use words like "literally" don't fully grasp what the world entirely means. So yeah - more often than not they end up looking stupid when the full definition bites them in the ass.
It frustrates me to no end that there are so many words that describe not literally, but literally means literally, and yet people don't use the other words that they actually mean!
As an ex McDonald's employee, I can relate to the cheeseburger no cheese story. Did the exact same thing, never got in trouble for it after only one time of it happening to my manager when they didn't believe me.
To be fair, most McDonald's burgers are not regular hamburgers. Things like the quarter pounder, Big Mac, McDouble, etc come as cheeseburgers by default, so if you want any of those rather than just the smallest, most basic burger they have on the menu, you have to just order them and ask for no cheese, but still get charged for the cheese. People ARE aware of how dumb this is...which would be why McDonald's is getting sued over it, lol.
@@KattoTang but none of those are called cheeseburgers... they do have a cheeseburger and hamburger as well. With the only difference being cheese. Looking up your lawsuit and seems like the quarter pounder has a cheese and no cheese version, so yes that would matter too.
I heard that people do it so they get a freshly made hamburger. They actually want a hamburger, but not one that stood in the shelf for however-long. And if you make a custom order it has to be made fresh. I don't know if it is true, but I believe that is the reasoning behind it.
I have had the opposite happen to me...I wanted a hamburger...I ordered a hamburger...but, the person on the register insisted they didn't serve hamburgers...just cheeseburgers or cheeseburgers without cheese. It was so frustrating that they wanted to charge me for the cheese I didn't want...especially since the difference in price at the time made a cheeseburger almost double the cost of a hamburger.
@@userasdf They're not called cheeseburgers but they have cheese on them by default. The quarter pounder automatically comes with cheese. The "no cheese version" is just asking for it to not have cheese. Go look at their menu, they literally only have one burger that isn't automatically served with cheese.
"But you don't understand, if we succeed in getting them acustommed to these conditions maybe just maybe we can bring back slavery and finally be able to own everyone! Sure some may die but that's a sacrifice we are more tham willing to make. In fact we can throw a pity party for those weaklings and get funding from those with 'morals' 🤮. Long live us, and maybe they to."
As someone who works in the veterinary field as a veterinary nurse, it is a very rewarding and challenging field, we get attached to your pets just like you do and want the best for them, it can be so mentally taxing when you deal with terribly difficult people and bad outcomes for your patients but yet so rewarding when the opposite happens, but it is an important part of the field being able to offer those end of life services to our patients and their families to help them remain comfortable, but every person involved feels the pain of that decision
It's much like hospice nurses, it takes a very specific type of strength of character to keep doing what y'all are doing. It's super important and anyone who says otherwise just doesn't know what they're talking about.
The average career length for a vet nurse is five years for a reason. Just to put it into perspective, it's a two year degree, and a $300 board exam to be licensed as a vet nurse. Not to mention the hours of continuing education needed every two years. I bet vet careers would be just as short if it wasn't for all the student loan debt they put themselves in to get their degree.
OMG. I'm a 3rd year vet student (we did our junior surgery lab last semester though, not 2nd year), and that story is soooo familiar. We "had lunch" from 12-1, but surgeries started at 1pm sharp and we were supposed to have all our machinery and supplies set up, and the patient pre-medded and on the prep room table, ready to induce and intubate BY then. They actually did tell us to make sure we eat something so we don't faint on the operating floor, despite having the same expectation OP's school did that we basically ditch our lunch hour to prep lol. Oh, and we also had a super grouchy anesthesiologist in particular, who likes to beeline toward people to yell at them for no reason. They did that to me to when I was in the anesthetist role to demand "why is there so much fluids in that bag" -- when I recalculated how much was SUPPOSED to be in there, step-by-step right in front of them and proving it was correct, they just said "oh" and walked away. No apology for marching over accusatorily like I'd done something wrong when I literally didn't lmao. They also told a couple people, IN THE MIDDLE OF STRESSFUL SURGERY, that they were going to fail them for the day for tiny stupid reasons, like one of them forgot to fill out one line in the physical exam portion of the anesthesia record beforehand. Not a drug calculation. Not the endotracheal tube size. Not the fluid rate. But some little thing from the physical exam box that didn't serve a purpose to look at during the procedure whatsoever. Otherwise, I think our overall experience was thankfully a little better than how OP described theirs; the other clinicians were generally not mean (just that one 🙄) and at least they didn't do crap like grabbing our instruments and making us rescrub. We also had teams of 4 so we had an extra non-sterile person who could go grab anything like that if we needed. TBH it sounds VERY irresponsible to make students just leave the animal under anesthesia for that much longer just 'cause. Our clinicians stressed the importance of getting them in and out in as little time as we could manage, because the longer they're under, the bigger patient safety concern it is.
Story 5, rSlash comment: When we had one of our degus, Ginger, PTS it was her favourite vet (yes, she had a favourite) who did it. She said she welled up because Ginger just did her usual pre-op ritual (she needed her teeth burring every couple of months) of washing her face before being put under. When she was bought back to us the vet was stroking her as if she was her own pet before hugging me and my SO.
Oh God. That was like when I took my late Mum's darling 23yo cat for her last visit. By the time I walked out with her in my arms, I was sobbing, the vet was sobbing, both receptionists, the nurse, a young guy in the waiting room, along with the two tattooed, bearded bikies who'd brought in 3 pit bulls were also in tears. That's an afternoon I'll never forget.
While getting my cell/molecular bio degree i was close classmates with an x vet going back to school because he got literally sick of telling people "their $13 cat needed $13,000 dollar surgery and the cat would be better of being put down even if they could pay it"
I'm a vet tech, I assist in end of life care, at the clinic and for house calls, it doesn't get easier, i still hear the cries of agony and grief, be kind to the vets, they try so hard with what they've got
My family has been going to the same vet office for literal generations. We rescue and foster a lot of animals. So they know us really well. When I had to put to sleep my personal dog who had heart failure, literally everyone was teary, the vets, the techs, the receptionists, all the staff. They sent me a beautiful bouquet of flowers about a week later. I go out of my way to make any visits as easy as possible and give them gift cards or treats. Veterinary is one of the most stressful jobs.
I just assisted in helping one of our favorite patients pass last week. (I'm a Vet Tech) I for sure cried. For months we tried to regulate the cat's diabetes and just couldn't. I'll never forget that cat or the owner.
I worked at Burger King in college. I did the same thing with the cheeseburger/hamburger situation. You order it the wrong way, you pay more. Not my fault. Cheeseburger without cheese still costs the same as a cheeseburger with cheese, which is more expensive than a hamburger. Hamburger add cheese is actually more expensive than just ordering an actual cheeseburger. They have their own words for a reason, people.
As someone whose dad consistently orders quarter pounder with cheese without cheese then gets flustered when there's cheese on it, I feel for that employee 😂
Having worked as a kennel assistant at a vet clinic (basically a janitor/animal handler), in my experience Vets deal with the stress of the job by taking it out on their employees. I ended up quitting the job with no notice (just an email saying I quit) because I was fighting the urge to jump into traffic on my way to work.
I went to a fast food joint once and couldn't find just a hamburger meal that wasn't some pidly little bun with meat and ketchup. So i ordered a #3 no cheese. The restaurant didn't care, but goddamn the woman standing beside me DID NOT like it and decided to snap at me to "order a goddamn hamburger" Sorry i wanted more tings on my burger than ketchup and bun, Karen 😂
the vet story. when i was a teen i wanted to be a vet assistant sooo bad and i studied for it and when i was near done i did a 1 month internship.. and realised i would not be able to mentally handle it. It was way too draining for my mental health to see so many animals in pain, die, owners who suffer, owners who are assholes etc
First Story: Lmao well that was an easy arrest for these cops. Imagine being this horribly behaved while trying to attend an interview Second Story: I didn’t even know that was the full word of AM. The more u know I guess. Honestly, that rule sounds so dumb though Third Story: Some people just don’t deserved to get help. People who order a cheese burger with no cheese DO deserve to get charged the price of a cheese burger for a hamburger Fourth Story: She can’t be upset, after all the punch card system is never wrong Fifth Story: This school is hiring the wrong kinds of people to be teaching. Some of these teachers are inconsiderate to the mental and physical health of their students Sixth Story: OP got the benifits of the parking permit without having to pay for it. Sounds like a win win to me Comment: That ticket cop clearly was waiting for OP to leave just to give them a ticket....🙄 Seventh Story: All it takes is a bunch of calls to immediately take back a rule. I wonder if that principle will look into that sewege smell problem though
I have a funny ticket story. In the Navy, they made me have to get my wisdom teeth out. I drove to the base dental facility. It didn't go well, I had a mouthful of bloody cotton and the whole left side of my face was totally numb, as the final novacaine shots kicked in late. Found a parking ticket on my car, for "no base sticker"! The sticker on my front bumper was partially hidden by long grass. So I go to the base Master-At-Arms office (basically Navy cops), and am soon trying to explain to the Chief MAA, barely able to talk and drooling blood on his desk. He finally yells, "Get out!" and tears up the ticket. Hehe. Got the rest of the day off work.
This is why I love my uni. We get an hour for lunch and a 10 min break in-between lectures and if we want to come in early to the labs we can. No eating or drinking though as it has a lot of chemicals and experiments around but thier always around to help you. Also if hospitals have an 80 hour limit you'd think vets do too, less for the ones in training like these guys.
Abbreviations story: I had the opposite happen. Abbreviations were mandatory. Also, we would now be using jargon to simplify instructions. So now “strip” was a phrase meaning to come clean the delivery remains-shrink wrap, shipping paper, boxes, styrofoam etc- and take it all out at once.) So, “Supervisor or Manager to assist in cleaning the stock room” became “S&M to the back to strip.” It went over REALLY WELL the first time that line was called over the PA system in front of a store full of customers.😂
"Why do people order cheeseburgers without cheese?" They might be lactose intorant and let's face it when was the last time you saw a burger on a menu (especially in restaurants) that doesn't have cheese on it
Literally every time I go to a place that has burgers there are options without cheese,,, where the hell are you going? Also, clearly in all of these stories there IS an option without cheese
@@RatOfTheWoods Trust me it's more common an issue then you think especially at pub/pub restaurants (the biggest offenders of this) and yeah I knew it's just I absolutely hate the thing that the vast majority of burgers have cheese on them (expect ether smaller ones or kid sizes) why I mostly go to cafés for burgers but even then they'll have the bigger burgers have cheese on them by default. Just feel like a lot of places punish you for liking burgers but not chesse
My wife's best friend is a vet tech. She told us once that the worst thing about being one is not just putting pets to sleep; but the owners not being there for the pet because it's "too emotional" for the owner. Like, don't you want your pet to be as comfortable as possible before crossing the rainbow bridge?? I don't think pets need to have some random stranger be the last thing they ever see. Much love to vets!!
I'm a vet tech and honestly hearing that some out there respects us and appreciates us is so refreshing. I can count on one hand how many times I've been told "I appreciate you." The amount of times I've been cussed out. screamed at, and threatened is so draining. It's no wonder veterinarians and techs have the highest suicide rates. For me, it's not the euths, or abuse cases, it's the people. The woman who screamed at me because she skimmed over the word "minimum" in the estimate and assumed that an international health certificate, exam, vaccines and microchip would only cost $55. She came in screaming and yelling before threatening to sue us because we lied to her, even though we highlighted the minimum of $55 for just the exam and broke down every charge and how we'd waive the exam. She instead cussed me out one last time and left. The man who brought in his dog that had been stung by a bee and was in anaphylactic shock, asked "why would you charge so much? I thought you assholes were supposed to care about animals!" Arguing with us for almost an hour, while I tried to keep his dog alive. The racist clients that won't even look me or my other POC coworkers or are straight rude to us. Or the creeps that hit on my female coworkers, calling ahead specifically to request them as their tech or see if they are in the office. Dr. Google clients that argue for hours before cussing us out and leaving because we don't agree with their own research. I've been bit, scratched, kicked, head butted and had all kinds of bodily fluids shot out at me by dogs and cats, with the scars to prove it, but I can handle that. The clients are what drives me up the wall. Having to explain that I don't have control over the prices, I don't have all the answers, I'm too underpaid, overworked and understaffed to deal with this. I'm 28. I've been at it for almost 6 years and I've aged a decade from the stress. Please, be kind to vets and techs. We can't control the pricing of services and medication, and we can't save every animal.
If you had chance to go back and pick another career, would you? I'm 29 going into a career change and vet is what I'm thinking. Not sure I can handle the animal cruelty though.
Story 3: Why do people even ask for a Cheeseburger if they're going to then ask for no cheese? Do they even realize that they'd just be tossing away a quarter?
You'd be surprised how many people don't know what a hamburger is. They think it's just the term for the raw beef or something, and that after you cook it and make it into a sandwich, it automatically comes with cheese. In the same sense it automatically comes with a bun.
No, they don't realize it. It's the same crowd that thinks a 1/3rd lb burger is smaller than a 1/4th lb one. An entire restaurant went under because nobody can do math.
@@adamb89 Japan has a thing called a hamburger stake and it's basically just the same shape and texture of meat just without the bun or cheese (thankfully). Plus if they have to come with cheese why do we have cheeseburgers and hamburgers shouldn't they be the same thing by that logic
Everyone knows that they only use all of the good beef and toppings on the cheese burger. You gotta fool Big Burger into giving you the best stuff without also getting suckered in by Big Cheese!
An old job I had in the early 00's had some kind of punchcard program on our desktops. It was just this simple little dashboard of buttons, like "Start Shift", "End Shift", "Start Break", "End Break", that sort of thing. And the funny thing is it just used whatever the current computer clock said for the time. Which meant if you were late all you had to do was change the clock, punch your card, change the clock back. And surprisingly nobody ever caught on.
I’m a musher who has a kennel that I like to call “A sled dog retirement home” because we adopt and take in sled dogs for life. We run for fun, so older dogs from professional mushers have a good life after their professional racing career has ended. Vets are amazing and they don’t get enough credit for what they do. When one of our dogs is at their end, they take the upmost care of them. Treat Vets with the love they give to our pets ❤
Story 2. Working at A&W. Someone ordered a teen burger without anything on it. So we made a burger with just cheese and bacon. They brought the burger demanding we make it correctly. They wanted a mama burger plain. But they insisted they wanted a teen burger with nothing on it.
My dogs were some of the first patients at my vet’s practice. Our customer number is in the 300’s for reference. 12 years later, when it came time to say goodbye to our dog, we were all in shambles, and the vet had to take a moment. She had watched this dog go from a puppy to and adult to an elder, and saw me and my siblings growing up with this dog (I wanted to be a vet so came to every appt). I miss you, Sailor, you were such a good girl 😭
My cat passed just before Christmas and our vet shed a tear, sent us a personal condolence card and flowers. Real vets care about the animals the help.
I was looking into different Vet schools because I love animals, and would want to help them in anyway I can. The first and last school I looked into I had someone give me a tour of the school, and a few classes they had. At one point she mentioned that part of the training included students having to be able to put an animal to sleep even though the animal is completely healthy. I'm not sure if all Vet programs talk about this or not. The lady explained that time, and time again pet owners who are making a huge move in their lives, or are just unable to continue to care for the animal decide to put their pet to sleep to not have to deal with the hassle of rehoming their pet. Apparently, to the owners "It's easier this way." That absolutely broke my heart. After hearing that I stopped looking into becoming a Vet because I was not fine with having to follow through with something like that.
In the case of the one of the fight and the parking cop, the parking job was obviously told to increase the number of tickets he's riding, that's why he told Op not to bother buying a parking permit because the cop knew what he was going to do the minute Op walked away. If Op where to fight that ticket in court that cop could technically be charged with entrapment
Having worked as a call center employee, the idea of having NO abbreviations in the notes is absurd. Most call centers actively insist on abbreviations and have a list of abbreviations that MUST be used...
No abbreviations? Thanks for the stories rslash. Have a good day. I lost one of my fur babies night before last. No emergency vet available. It is so hard.
The cheese burger no cheese happened to me once. Got yelled at for fir correcting her then yelled at the it costed more the the hamburger. Happened multiple times with the same idiot karen
3rd story: I, too, work in a fast-food restaurant (specifically pizzeria) where I have to correct people. Especially on the difference between calzone and Stromboli (for reference, calzones are made with ricotta cheese, strombolis are not). I will say I do appreciate customers who ask instead of just assuming, because I don't come off as "rude" for the correction.
The vet story is a prime example of seniors following the mantra of “we suffered through so you should too@ rather than the logical “we suffered needlessly, why don’t we improve?” - an attitude that is costing two whole health care industries work force and causing suicides
Several years ago the UK magazine 'Dogs Today' ran a reader survey about whether dog owners would prefer to be treated by their vet rather than their GP. I can’t remember the exact percentage but it was overwhelmingly positive for dog owners preferring to be seen by their vets for human health problems, instead of by their GP. The vet’s’ bedside manner was definitely considered to be greater!
I did the same thing with the same reasons when I had to let my last 2 dogs go. The vet was so kind and sweet and even helped me make arrangements for their cremation and return to me
Story 3: As a lactose-intolerant person, I just want to say that there are some cases where a cheeseburger differs from a burger in other ways than only cheese (extra onions or pickles). But in this case, the op was right :)
When I was 12 and my sister was 14, she took my dog for a walk. The neighborhood kids surrounded her because she was adorable and they wanted to pet her. My sister couldn't get them away fast enough and they spooked my poor girl, who got off her leash and ran into the road towards my house. Someone who was driving down the street didn't see her and hit her. My sister in a panic grabbed my dog and ran the few feet to our house while screaming and bawling. I ran outside and had a melt down too while the lady who hit her collapsed out her car already crying. One of my neighbors was a vet who ran out with her gear to try to help. She was gone on impact but this sweet woman tried all she could to save her. I vividly remember through my own melt down this vet sitting on our front steps just weeping and petting my dog. Less than 10 years later when my house burned down, she was one of the first people who ran out to help and check on our pets. She checked all of them for smoke inhalation or any other medical effects of the smoke, all while crying herself and showering them in love and affection. Vets are some of the strongest people in the world and I respect them so much. In all those years, I never did know her name but I appreciate her so much for jumping into action both times. Thank a vet, yall. They take on all of our emotional traumas themselves.
Former Vet Tech here. It's never easy for anyone when it comes to end of life appointments. We cry, and sometimes show it, depending on the nature of the patient. I've lost 4 of my own, one just recently. It never gets easier. We love your babies and treat them as our own during aftercare. If anyone has questions I'm happy to answer, especially if you've had a recent loss.
As someone who doesn’t eat cheese, many restaurants don’t have a hamburger option, just a cheeseburger so I have to order a cheeseburger without cheese if no other option.
3:10 - Reminds me of an old Steve Geyer bit. "I'd like a Cheeseburger, hold the cheese." "Sir, that's a hamburger." "I know, I like the yellow paper, okay?"
I honestly dont know how vets can do it, sitting there with my pets in their last moments is the greatest pain ive felt. Even growing up on a farm and having to put sick animals down myself, it breaks me everytime 😔
I would much rather put a bullet through my fur babies skull than ever have them put down by the vet again. The one dog we had put down at the vets was the most heartbreaking and traumatic experience. She squealed and whined as it was injected, then went stiff before sagging in my mom's arms. I was the one who held her on the ride home and never want to see my babies faces shift the way hers did in those last moments
I had a coworker who would order a "Cheeseburger, but without the cheese" almost every time the office went to lunch as a group. It was so cringe. None of us ever called him on it. He was what my Granddad would have called "an odd duck." Nice guy, great employee, but just not quite on the same planet as the rest of us.
The better malicious compliance with the "Cheeseburger with no cheese" story would be for management to institute a $0.25 extra charge for major modifications to the cheeseburger. It'll either stop the stupidity or earn more profit! Win/win.
On the subject of parking ticket cops, I have a very recent story to share. Not worth republishing, but worth putting here. The other day I was in a small parking garage in my city, and I was in my work vehicle waiting for a call, using the parking garage as shelter. I saw a random person leave in their vehicle, but before doing so, left their parking slip on a part of the parking machine for someone else to use as it still had time left. I saw a parking bylaw officer walk in the garage, and I saw them eyeing a car which may have not had a parking slip. I mentioned the parking slip in the machine to the guy, and the guy, instead of writing a ticket, took the parking slip and put it under the car's windshield wiper. It was a rare wholesome moment, and I was happy to see the bylaw officer wasn't one of the type described near the end of this video.
I have major respect for vets and assistances. I cannot imagine caring for hurt animals and their loving pet parents. I was at my friends home as we said goodbye to her sweet Siamese Piccolini. It was beautiful and extremely sad. When it’s time to say goodbye to my Benji(dog) I will do it at home also.
As someone who just recently lost a dog, I had to rush the ailing pet to a veterinary ER. They did everything they could save my dog, but in the end it was just her time. I don’t know what is worse for a vet. To put an animal down or to lose the animal on the table trying to save them. All I know is that they did what they could and am grateful to them and to all those in the veterinary field.
Last year, I had to put my 14 year old Pitbull Terrier to sleep. I won't lie, it was the most depressing week of my life as I had also lost my grandfather not 4 days prior. I remember how he walked to and licked everyone of us, saying goodbye. After we administered the needle, we all rubbed and petted him until the very end. I miss that dog, and typing this is making me cry. I am glad that my grandfather will have someone to keep him company. Veterinarians have one of the most emotionally stressful and taxing jobs there is. Always give them respect, and please stay with your pets company until the very end.
I just rememebered a story Malicous Compliance my mom told meas her time as a Pysch Nurse. There was a new pyscharist that just started on the floor and she said like every other new Doctor they wanna "assert their dominance" and they think they know better about patients despite only seeing them for maybe less than 20 minutes in a 24 hour period. This doctor refused to read the notes left by nurses and PCT's and stuff like that. This lady was in a saferoom so she couldn't hurt herself as she was very well safe to say she tried to unalive herself. She didn't try to for 3 days and doctor thought it would be safe to put her in more normal room despite objections from my mom. So they moved her. So what does she do within an hour of being moved. Take the bed sheets and try to hang herself. From the shower in the bathroom in the "normal rooms". Don't worry she was fine. So they moved back into the safety room and the Doctor got chewed out royally by the head psychiatrist of that department for not reading notes. So TL;DR if you are in pysch. Listen to your god damn staff
the story about vets... I had a neighbor that needs help putting down a dog, because the dog was 28 years old, couldn't hardly walk, couldn't eat, couldn't see, and had no quality of life. the issue was, they couldn't afford a vet ($800 in my area for a vet to put them down. $600 if you go to their office, and $1000+ if your house is more than 20 miles from their office). Additionally, two of my cats (one had a bladder issue that caused urine to back up into his kidneys, resulting in acute kidney failure. Didn't realize anything was wrong until it was too late. the other had early onset feline dementia). I ended up putting all three down (legal in my area, and recommended by my area's vets, as it creates less stress for the animal to only have the owner and known family around). and I have to say... I had mad respect for anyone that is able to handle that as often as they do. I now have a dog of my own, and she's soon to be 4 years old. And every year, on her birthday, I wonder if I'll be able to when the time comes. and that's not counting the other two cats that I had to bury (pancreatic cancer and stroke. both died before my parents knew anything was wrong). There's little worse than having to bury a pet.
Similar to the last story. I was in the Navy and our Division got a new officer Lt.JG IronMaiden (Real b!tc#). Most of our division finished work early in port as our equipment was powered down while in port and only minimal maintenance can be done. Most of our work was cleaning. By noon every thing was done and clean in the division. Our workshop supervisors would usually let us leave for the day as there was nothing else to do. When LtJG IronMaiden found out that 95% of her staff was gone by 1200 to 1300 and she had no "volunteers" for working parties that sometimes pop up in the afternoon, she implemented a policy that everyone had to stay till 1600. We complained that there was no extra work to be done and that it left Sailors idle. Bored Sailors can cause problems. So in correction she implemented a policy that every Sailor must personally ask her to be relieved for the day. My Division had about 40 Sailors so at about lunch time when she headed to the Officer's galley, we would all call, one at a time, to ask for liberty. Three days later the Shop Sups had power again. Not my only story about her but this one fits here. I guarantee she's retired by now and Karening her way through society.
Story 3: At some restaurants and fast food places, they (annoyingly) have the cheese on by default on the menu. Like I could order a "quarter pounder no cheese" but they would hear "quarter pounder *with* cheese" and I won't get what I want anyways. Trust me I've tried this hundreds of times. Every single time. If I just try to order a quarter pounder no cheese or word it like that at all, I always end up getting cheese on it Nowadays you can just order from the app, but if there isn't a "bacon hamburger" on the menu, I'm ordering a "bacon cheeseburger no cheese". I know it's dumb. But it's not my fault the restaurants engrain the idea that everybody wants cheese on their burger. It should be the opposite really, cheese should be the opt IN choice, not the opt OUT one. Some of us are lactose intolerant, and some of us just don't like American cheese.
Listening to grown men having actual mental breakdowns during their pets' last visits was by far the hardest part of working at a vet clinic. One man, a wonderful, lovely guy who loved his German shepherd more than life itself, got the awful news one day that said pupper was suffering from terminal cancer, and was in so much pain he couldn't go on. He thought he was going to walk out of there WITH his best pal, but instead, from a computer in a different room, I watched as the diagnosis was entered into the dog's records, and then I heard the poor guy slam his hands onto the exam table and just started SOBBING and SHOUTING, "NO, NO, NOOOOO." The entire staff took turns going into the bathroom to cry, so we could hold it together in front of him. His grief haunts my memories. Awful.
I always respected doctors, nurses and vets. They have some of the most emotional cases people can have and in the words of Dr Cox “The doctor is going to say they did everything they could, they’re sorry and then they’re going back to work. Do you think anyone else in that room is going back to work today?”
4th year vet student here. While I haven't experienced anything like being expected to be an hour early to practicals (more like 10 minutes), I still related so hard to that story. Our university also pretends to care about mental health due to the high suicide rate, yet they'll still give us 7-9 hours of lectures a day, have forgotten to schedule time for lunch breaks at times, make us still do pracs in the blazing heat (several students have passed out from this, and I was almost one of them) and last year they were making us do "quizzes" basically every 2 weeks. Also, I'm having to repeat this entire year just because I failed my final exams. I was on a passing grade before that, but I failed 4/5 of my finals (one by only 2 marks) because I just couldn't study the sheer volume of content we're expected to know in the less than 2 weeks I had to study. As horrible as this is to say I'm actually surprised (but glad) that nobody in my cohort has unalived themselves because we're all depressed and chronically tired from 7 hour days starting at 8am. It just makes me so angry when the uni says shallow bullshit like "we're here for you
I've actually heard the cheeseburger with no cheese line, from someone who said it very seriously. I stood in line, right behind the person, and I was about to burst laughing. The cashier didn't even blink or correct the person, but just put in "cheeseburger no cheese". They must hear that line A LOT. 🤣😂
3rd story: As someone who grew up severely allergic to cheese I have sympathy for OP, but also food service folks tend to NEED "no cheese stated" very clearly so chances are it's just a habit the folks have when ordering. As a kid I used to say "hamburger" and I'd get cheese, and the person behind the register would be like "well why didn't you tell me no cheese then?!" So I started saying "hamburger no cheese" but then I'd have folks who would instead hear "with cheese" or "cheeseburger" instead since anyone who's done customer service knows all words blur together at a certain point. Those folks would get mad at me and tell me to "just order a hamburger" when the whole reason I was ordering that way was because their coworker gave me shit for not saying things their way last week. Folks who can't have cheese have learned to say the things they do BECAUSE OF food service workers, most of us are just doing what ya'll tell us to do and we don't want to fight about it, we just want to get our food and leave. We don't care if you charge us more, so long as we can get our food made correctly and leave. If it's happening that often, maybe just let it go man.
Dentists have the highest cases of sui-cide Vets come in second. I had to put a cat down a week before my oldest sister passed from cancer. The Vet cried with us and hugged us. They see people lose their best friend and sometimes a person's only family member. My heart goes out to all Vets and all who have lost their pets. That's a rough one
We put our 16 year old dog down two weeks ago. The vet said that he may make a sigh or something but he had passed. While sobbing (vet left to give us privacy) our dog tail wagged. This is after we said he was a good boy and we miss him. We sobbed louder and thank him for one last smile before he left us.
Customer: "hello I'd like to order a salad but without the lettuce" Cashier: "that's called a fruit salad but with croutons. Also, we don't sell those." Customer: "I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING DON’T QUESTION ME!!" Cashier: "ma'am I said we don't sell those" Customer: "QUIT ARGUING AND MAKE MY ORDER OR I'LL HAVE YOU FIRED!!" Cashier in head: "help me"
As a vet who has strong memories of surgery labs, that vet school faculty is crazy out of line. All the best to that OP and her classmates! ❤❤ Fighting though resistant faculty as well as the course itself is rough going. (My cohort were the inaugural group for my school, so we had to fight a fair bit to change things that we were test subjects for, so I kinda get it)
I’m a vet assistant. I work at a ER hospital. Let me tell you. There are times driving home I am crying over cases we had that day. Always being told not to take them home with you, but when you have a bad case you can’t help but to carry it home. It’s definitely a hard job but I do love it.
Hearing about the vets is rough right now. I'm currently wrestling with the decision to put my childhood dog down due to her failing health. I don't know how they can manage it without always being an emotional wreck.
I feel for you. It is such a difficult decision, especially when you see that they're still having moments of joy. But you want to make the decision before they start to suffer. Don't leave it too late - I have before and am still haunted in knowing I should have had my dog pts weeks before I actually did. At least you can know that you gave your dog the best life.
@@It-is-me...Melsie the thing is, I think we have waited too long. She lives with my parents and they haven't been able to make the call. I don't see her too often due to distance and time, but I'm dog sitting her right now. She's deep in the throws of dementia and is suffering from muscular problems. She can't see or hear and doesn't seem to know who my parents or I am. Plus she spends all day in small pen in my old room to keep her from getting hurt. She regularly has accidents in there that she walks through and just watching her circle there was enough to make me break down last night. I'm planning on talking to my parents when they return home. I think we've waited too long.
Looks like people miss the point on ordering a cheeseburger with no cheese. Many fast-food workers are not... deep thinkers, nor do they need to be to do their job well. It's a job that requires knowledge of the procedures involved, and understanding what is meant when a customer uses a specific word. Other than that, it's about efficiency in getting the customer served and out the door. Different items are prepared in different ways. My Arby's order is a good example: What I want is roast beef on a sesame seed bun, with their cheddar cheese sauce. They used to sell that as an "Arby's Melt" but it's no longer on the menu. They do have something called the "Beef N' Cheddar" which is similar but not what I like. That one has onion flecks on the bun and has barbecue sauce. I could use the old term and employees that have been there a while may know what I mean. Newer ones may not. So, to be completely clear on what I'm looking for, I say "Roast Beef Sandwich, add cheddar cheese sauce" Does it sound dumb? Maybe, but that's how I get what I want, so I don't care.
In my hometown, there's a very good burger joint that is run by a slightly eccentric old man. If you ordered a hamburger, the lettuce, tomato, and pickles were add-ons but were included on the cheeseburger. The idea was to boost the cost of a hamburger, like a marketing gimmick? My brother (marketing major) figured out that the hamburger with the add-ons cost more than the cheeseburger. So he ordered the cheeseburger w/no cheese. The cashier started to say something but the old man sushed her and half-whispered "we save money when no cheese on cheeseburger because is still charged in price, no discount for no cheese, just no cheese."
Story 3: I sometimes order a hamburger with cheese. When I get a funny look, I say “I don’t like melted cheese on the patty.” So they give me the cold cheese after grilling, for cheeseburger (or add-on) price.
When I was a kid I wanted to be a vet because "I get to hang out with animals all day!". As I grew older I realized that it meant being around pets that would hate me and I'd have to put a lot of them down. I have all the respect for them but man I wouldn't be able to deal with that.
