2 mo. ago • 98%

Sometimes it isnt an option. But sometimes it's a lifesaver.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13026188

People need to remember this.

People Twitter @sh.itjust.works People need to remember this.

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I went back to university as a mature student. Our prof was like 15 minutes late and some "did you know if the prof is 15 minutes late you're legally allowed to leave?" Chatter started.

Me, the ornery old man of 26 had to explain to the teenagers that they're adults now and they can leave whenever the fuck they want. It's about choices now, not compulsion.

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- Except for a fact that the 15 mins rule absolves you from consequences from not being there - where absences can impact your grade. So far so, that some less important courses can get you a passing grade simply from going to the lectures.
  
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  Some teachers really should grow tf up. Why are they so butthurt over someone being present that they're adjusting test scores to fit?
  
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I will forever remember when an incompetent, misogynistic neurologist expressed utter shock when I ended the appointment.

I reported him before I even left the hospital, and amazingly--miraculously!--, I got a message from him a couple of days later wherein he was taking my issues much more seriously.

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- That's amazing. Kudos to you!
  
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K-12 education and other obligations have reinforced the social norm of enduring and sitting through uncomfortable circumstances due to fear of punishment or reprisal.

Is it so shocking that the behavior drilled into people continues to pervade their norms?

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- Good point. It is so unbelievably unhealthy, tbh.
  
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I once walked out after waiting for the doctor to show up for the appt for an hour.

Next time I called, some eight months later, he no longer worked there, which was helpful as I was going to request someone new anyway.

I like to think he was fired in part because of me, and I did tell the front desk why I was leaving at the time.

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- I don't know if that's fair. Scheduling is not left up to the doctors, for the most part. Being an hour late is terrible and I would also be very frustrated by it, but that could be because he had a patient or two before you whose issues were much more serious or complicated than they seemed to be during scheduling.
  
  I don't know. I see this from both perspectives, having been a patient of dozens of doctors at this point. It's not always their fault. It's not even usually their fault.
  
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  I can see where you're coming from, but it really isn't that hard to ask a nurse to go communicate that you'll be late/need to reschedule.
  
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  Oh, I had other problems with that particular doc already and at no point was I told he'd be late or how long he would be.
  
  I was late to work in the end too.
  
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  Depending on the practice, doctors absolutely can have input on their schedules. And they often overbook themselves even when they are on call.
  
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  In the US at least, almost all doctors have total ironclad control over their schedule.
  
  Source, worked 17 years in a mutli-hospital system that also had over hundred practices.
  
  Not saying shit doesn't happen, I just spent an hour and a half at a Vet, because they had dog it by a car come in. But it's mostly on the doctors themselves if it happens chronically.
  
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leaves work

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- Unless you've got some savings, probz a good idea to find a better job first
  
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