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arkarian

2015-05-05 07:34:44 pm

red chamber dream

a doctor can't legally detain you. you could have left any time you wanted.

Poision Envy

2015-05-05 08:40:17 pm

Club 27 Goals

Quote from Opium:

See if your new provider will pay for a complete physical. If there's anything wrong with your heart, or just about anything else, then they will find it. If they find nothing then you can stop worrying. It's a win-win.

yeah this is a good idea, thanks

Quote from arkarian:

a doctor can't legally detain you. you could have left any time you wanted.

well I mean I can understand their side too, if I had later died due to a heart attack and it was found that I had left their care while also dizzy so possibly making bad judgement, OR if I had gotten in a car accident and had crashed and possibly killed someone else due to my dizzyness and blamed it on the hospital or something. I dunno, just seems like a lot of possible legal trouble.

arkarian

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arkarian: 2015-05-05 08:44:46 pm

2015-05-05 08:44:32 pm

red chamber dream

right yeah, they're trying to protect themselves. they weren't "detaining" you though. they just would really have preferred you to stay. :)

Poision Envy

2015-05-05 08:45:17 pm

Club 27 Goals

yeah I mean it's not like there were security guards waiting at the door or anything. I probably could've taken the receptionist down, she was kinda chub.

arkarian

2015-05-05 08:47:48 pm

red chamber dream

yeah, so you weren't detained lol

arkarian

2015-05-05 08:48:06 pm

red chamber dream

probably don't want to give people the wrong idea by saying you were :P

Poision Envy

2015-05-05 08:51:23 pm

Club 27 Goals

shhh shhhh it's a good excuse for why I didn't go to work that day

Opium

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Opium: 2015-05-06 04:01:06 pm

2015-05-06 04:00:24 pm

Yeah so this happened:

My friend brought a gay publication to work. This publication is distributed at every grocery and convenience store in town. It sits right next to the local newspaper, the thrifty nickel, apartment finder, etc. A lady that he works with went crazy when she saw it and complained to HR. They suspended my friend for bringing 'inappropriate material'. He demanded to know what was inappropriate about it. They answered him a few days later by firing him and telling him that there was a sex advice column in the publication that was inappropriate. He pointed out to them that the exact same advice column is published verbatim in the small local newspaper that can be found all over the office, and by allowing that publication to be present but labeling the gay one 'offensive' they are violating their own diversity policy. They stood by the decision to fire him.

arkarian

2015-05-06 04:39:05 pm

red chamber dream

i would say to sue if i thought he would win, lol

Opium

2015-05-06 04:42:31 pm

I don't even think he can sue, at least not for sexual orientation discrimination. It's still perfectly legal to fire someone for being gay in most states. It actually happened in a vegas casino I was working at. A lady wrote a letter to the CFO which listed all of the 'known homosexuals' in the accounting and cage department. He called them into his office one at a time and confronted them by asking them if they were gay. He fired every single one of them and there was nothing they could do about it. That was 2004.

Opium

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Opium: 2015-05-06 04:46:13 pm

2015-05-06 04:45:15 pm

One of them tried to sue for something, I can't remember what it was but had nothing to do with sexual orientation. He named me as a witness and the casino's legal team called me in to interrogate me. They asked me if I ever saw the letter. I told them no. They asked me how I knew it existed. I told them that the lady who wrote it bragged about it all day, and still brags about how she 'got rid of all the fags'. If you bring it up, her face lights up with pride and she tells the story over and over. She stopped talking about it after that day. I used to fantasize about beating her to death with a tire iron.

ryu

2015-05-06 04:52:11 pm

How do these people even manage to breath?

Opium

2015-05-06 05:01:49 pm

I don't know but it seems like there's someone like that in every workplace and management always acts like they have to take their side on shit. She also got someone else fired for revealing something about that person's personal life. Why don't they just realize what the common denominator is? We also had this employee that came in every day and didn't work. They were rude to everyone, management, and even customers. Once day I asked why she got away with everything and the director told me that if you ever try to write her up for anything then she will claim racial discrimination and what follows is a nightmare of paperwork and probably the end of your job because the company has to bow down to that shit so they don't get sued. He said she's done it several times so they all just decided to never confront her or discipline her. She also makes more than anyone else there because she threatens discrimination every time her annual review comes up.

DJGrenola

2015-05-06 05:02:35 pm

Poision this is the most amateur of diagnoses but some of your symptoms sound reminiscent of panic attacks

Opium

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Opium: 2015-05-06 05:11:31 pm

2015-05-06 05:05:20 pm

I was going to suggest that but I didn't know how you would feel about it. I had one so bad one time that I actually called 911 and told them I was having a heart attack. I was pretty embarrassed about it.
lol they didn't even run any test. The emt just grabbed me by the shoulders and looked me in the face and told me to calm down and breathe because I was just panicing. They somehow just knew the difference right away.

ryu

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ryu: 2015-05-06 05:23:50 pm

2015-05-06 05:23:25 pm

I once suffered severe pain during a train ride. At some point my vision blurred so badly I could pretty much see nothing anymore and right after I had a fit of tinitus so bad I couldn't even hear the train's noises anymore.

My guess it that was some kind of nervous breakdown because I was afraid of breaking down in public.

Opium

2015-05-06 05:26:29 pm

That's weird. What do you mean by 'breaking down' in public?

ryu

2015-05-06 05:34:35 pm

The pain was so bad I felt like I couldn't stand for much longer.

Opium

2015-05-06 05:39:14 pm

That must have been scary.

DJGrenola

2015-05-06 06:10:24 pm

Yeah I called the emergency services during a panic attack once and couldn't actually speak I was so frightened, fortunately the guy I was sharing a house with at the time came home about 20 minutes later and I calmed down a lot after that but that was the most frightened I've ever been I think

Opium

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Opium: 2015-05-06 06:22:37 pm

2015-05-06 06:18:42 pm

I was 100% sure I was having a heart attack. It was like that incredible sensation you get when you're falling, like on an amusement park ride, but it was much more intense than that and it made no sense because I wasn't falling, I was sitting on the couch. Then sweat ran off my head in such amounts that drips were running down my face as if someone had poured a glass of water on my head. Panic. I'm dying. Help!

Quote from DJGrenola:

Yeah I called the emergency services during a panic attack once and couldn't actually speak I was so frightened, fortunately the guy I was sharing a house with at the time came home about 20 minutes later and I calmed down a lot after that but that was the most frightened I've ever been I think

Did you call on a cell phone? Otherwise they should have come even if you didn't speak, no?

arkarian

2015-05-06 06:45:04 pm

red chamber dream

i've never had a panic attack, but i've had two anxiety attacks, both when i was talking to my parents. fucking parents, man.

DJGrenola

2015-05-06 06:54:04 pm

Opium I did manage to give them my address after about 30 seconds of stammering but it was a Saturday night in south London and they had better things to do than send ambulances to people who weren't bleeding everywhere ... they did call me back a couple of times to check I hadn't keeled over or anything but I was super low priority for them at that moment... Once my housemate was back home I told them not to bother because I was a lot calmer knowing there was someone to keep an eye on me and who could get me to hospital if I lost consciousness or ehatever

Opium

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Opium: 2015-05-06 06:56:28 pm

2015-05-06 06:55:37 pm

Quote from DJGrenola:

Opium I did manage to give them my address after about 30 seconds of stammering but it was a Saturday night in south London and they had better things to do than send ambulances to people who weren't bleeding everywhere ... they did call me back a couple of times to check I hadn't keeled over or anything but I was super low priority for them at that moment... Once my housemate was back home I told them not to bother because I was a lot calmer knowing there was someone to keep an eye on me and who could get me to hospital if I lost consciousness or ehatever

Wow that's a lot different than the USA. They seem to come no matter what, but that's probably because there's money to be made, or lost.

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i've never had a panic attack, but i've had two anxiety attacks, both when i was talking to my parents. fucking parents, man.

I thought they were the same thing.

DJGrenola

2015-05-06 06:56:32 pm

They would have sent one eventually, but they triage people over the phone because they have to prioritise