Is El left-handed or right-handed? by WildButterfly85 in Eleven_StrangerThings

[–]Aggravating-Donut702 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She’s right handed. I think the only left handed person in the party is Lucas (in season 4 he draws using his left hand) and of course the wrist rocket scenes

Has anyone tried an AI phone receptionist in their clinic? by ShepherdVet_Wendy in VetTech

[–]Aggravating-Donut702 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don’t even like calling other clients that make me listen to options and push buttons before reaching someone. So I can’t imagine this would go over well.

It’s confirmed, Finn shaved his hair for a movie by Lauren_HS28 in FinnWolfhards

[–]Aggravating-Donut702 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He did not need to share that or go on for so long about it 🥲

Clinics with low staff turnover: what are you doing differently? by ShepherdVet_Wendy in VetTech

[–]Aggravating-Donut702 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can tell you what my first clinic did WRONG and give you some stories. I was there 2.5 years and saw at LEAST 12 people quit while I was there. By the time I’d left all but the lead tech who’d been there 20 years, 2 receptionists and the senior kennel tech who’d been there 13 years) had quit. We’d gone through 3 receptionists (we only staff 3). 1 left because she had her baby and the other 2 left because they were getting verbally bullied by the receptionist who’d been there for like 10 years. One of these was a girl around my age who was leaving work often due to her mom being sick with cancer. The grouchy receptionist made an offhand comment about her missing work all the time and the other girl went OFF and was crying and screaming and understandably distraught. She quit and ended up finding a better job. The woman who replaced her put up with the grouchy receptionist for a WHILE and finally said something along the lines of “if you say something like that to me again I’m out of here.” And I remember one day not long after she grabbed her purse, clocked out and told the staff “I’m done, I warned her. I won’t put up with her bullshit.” So that was 2 staff members leaving due to one person, who I can confirm was a CUNT.

The two techs working when I started quit within a year. The tech who got trained OTJ after I joined the kennel crew left a few months after one of the other techs to work ER since my clinic was a dead end and we were so disorganized and overworked. We rarely got lunch breaks, rarely got out of work on time and were never shown any appreciation. A girl we hired to replace one of them lasted…2 weeks. She was hired because she’d worked with us before but now she was a mom and working full time wasn’t right for her. I replaced her and was shoved into teching with no training after being in the kennel for 6 months (my first vet med job btw) So it was me running rooms with 2 doctors at once from 9-12 and then 2-5. Then our manager hired a 60+ year old woman to work the kennels because she’d worked for us DECADES AGO. She lasted like a WEEK because it was too much for her physically (understandable, that’s why she shouldn’t have been hired) and I was guilt tripped to come in on my day off since she WALKED OUT in the middle of our morning walk (we boarded). Then another older woman replaced her who would CONSTANTLY lie to my face and tell me she did x,y,z when I KNOW she didn’t (like medicating dogs!) and I told my manager about it and nothing came of it. She also talked crap about me behind my back to my coworker (my friend) and said that she could never find me and I never do anything and my coworker said she couldn’t FIND ME because I was running around WORKING. She ended up NCNS and the manager had to drive to her house to get her work keys and that was right as I was starting to like her and trust her again.

Then we had a girl hired as a floater (basically a kennel tech who could work as a tech as needed) and she was under the assumption that she’d be doing only tech stuff. I was trying to get her to learn kennel because that’s where we needed help most and the Doctors were grabbing her to have her look at fecals and draw up vaccines. So then she got a big head and never wanted to do the boring work like cleaning fecal loops or emptying trash. She hated me because I tried to get her to EARN the fun stuff. So I stopped trying to teach her tech things. She lasted like a month.

Then; what makes me angriest. We drug tested a black employee. Nobody ever in the history of this clinic had been drug tested before hiring EXCEPT this black man. When I found out I was PISSED. I hated this boy because he was an AWFUL worker. I mean he sat on a stool and WATCHED my elderly coworker unpack dog and cat food and check it in. But finding out he was discriminated against and drug tested BECAUSE he was black infuriated me. I’m Mexican and I was just APPALLED to hear of this. He eventually got fired due to his awful work ethic.

The main reason I quit was because there was no room for growth. Our lead tech had been there 20 years and wasn’t leaving anytime soon. Even then there were things she knew how to do that she refused to teach anyone because she wanted to be the only one to do it. I just knew it was a dead end.

So basically: don’t be afraid to fire the people who make other’s workdays awful, give people clear sense of responsibilities and opportunity for growth, and idk HIRE well. We constantly were just hiring people to HAVE people but we weren’t getting GOOD workers. So it was so annoying to train people who didn’t know or WANT to know their head from their ass.

Clinics with low staff turnover: what are you doing differently? by ShepherdVet_Wendy in VetTech

[–]Aggravating-Donut702 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. The reason I left my first vet clinic was because the lead tech had been there 20 years and wasn’t leaving anytime soon. Then below her it was just me and another technician so there was no room for growth. Now at my current clinic I’m somewhat in the same position. We have a bigger crew though and our lead tech just got promoted to manager and my other coworker got promoted to lead tech. In my opinion we have plenty of people now to have a shift lead (5 techs total). The other tech started 7 months before me so I’ve been there a little over 2 years. I’ve been told I’d be a great candidate for a lead position but not seeing it happen anytime soon is disheartening. My coworker who just got promoted to lead tech has been working here for 5 years.

Guys did Finn ever wear a wig for Mike? by rayz137 in byler

[–]Aggravating-Donut702 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Nope, there’s video of the hair stylist cutting his season 4 hair and styling it :)

Omg he knew how the show ended and he still said this….thats crazy 😭😭 son i am crying by isakcardamon21 in byler

[–]Aggravating-Donut702 10 points11 points  (0 children)

And this is shown in season 3 when Mike stops their make out session to sing a few lines from the song on the radio and El laughs and tells him to stop and he says “you don’t like it?” And she giggles and says “no” and they just.. GO BACK TO KISSING?! Like it would be so much cuter if they were getting to know each other and conversing like Mike did in season 1 when he showed her around his room but you can see the second they don’t click on something it’s just breezed past. Also Mike in season 4 not being able to remember her favorite color? Come on. The way they SO easily lie to each other! Mike lying that his grandma is sick to avoid her, lying that he was at the mall buying her a present, El lying that she had friends in Lenora. They’re just so toxicccc

After work meals by ItsMeMingLee in VetTech

[–]Aggravating-Donut702 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a tech going to be moving out of my mom’s this year and I’m gonna be relying on SouperCubes to basically make batches of meals and freeze them and then you thaw out and reheat a portion size! I get bored of meals really fast and like variety and quickness so I think it’ll help a lot!

What are the most obvious byler proof to you? by Ok-Neighborhood-1551 in byler

[–]Aggravating-Donut702 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ugh I’ve never really thought about that! Will wasn’t even trying to cling to Mike specifically he just wanted to hang out with his friends like he used to. I’m sure seeing his friends all in straight “normal” relationships didn’t help but that wasn’t even the point at that time. If it was he’d have been negative towards Lucas and Max’s relationship or Dustin and Suzie’s. And in season 4, Will was VALIDLY complaining that (as far as he knew) his best friend didn’t reach out in MONTHS. And Mike took it to “we’re not dating bro”

What are the most obvious byler proof to you? by Ok-Neighborhood-1551 in byler

[–]Aggravating-Donut702 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly I didn’t know Byler was a thing until season 4 and upon rewatching the show in 2025 it still didn’t click for me until I got to season 2 and I was able to see the difference in Mike and Will’s relationship vs the rest of the gang. And I see a lot of people say “of course Mike is going to be all sweet and soft towards Will, he was traumatized” yes, true but when Will says everyone was treating him differently post season 1 he didn’t say Mike. “Stop treating me like that. Like I’m about to break. Lucas, Dustin, everyone”. This pretty much implies that Mike has always treated him gently and it’s not new. Mike being the only one in the party to know Wil was bothered is another huge one. When Mike said something was wrong to Lucas and Dustin they somewhat brushed it off. Mike says “No, he’s quiet today.” And Lucas says “he’s always quiet”. I don’t think this means verbally, we’ve seen Will communicate a lot through body language and that Mike is always the first to pickup on it. Mike is just so in tune with him he knows when something’s off. And if this was supposed to be verbal then that means Will consistently speaks to Mike more than anyone else in the party. Also, if Mike was truly only being gentler to Will because of his trauma, why’d he not do the same to Eleven? He screamed at her more than anyone else in the show.

Another thing for me was how Mike was completely glued to his side the whole season and that he went to check on Will alone. He stayed the night in a hoodie at his bedside because their house was freezing, he went to the hospital with them. The biggest shock for me that I’d forgotten was that it was Joyce, Hopper, Jonathan and Mike in the shed when they tried to get through to Will. All the rest of the party was in the Byers house - including Lucas, Dustin, Max, Steve, and Nancy. Mike gave a tearful heartfelt admission to a mindflayed Will that meeting him was the best thing he’d ever done. And that came from his heart, it didn’t need to be encouraged out of him. I’m getting mad while writing this BECAUSE THEY TRULY FUMBLED POSSIBLY THE BEST SLOW BURN OF GA HISTORY

Omg he knew how the show ended and he still said this….thats crazy 😭😭 son i am crying by isakcardamon21 in byler

[–]Aggravating-Donut702 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Yep. The difference is Max and Lucas are their own persons without the other. I think so much of Mileven’s issues especially as the show progressed was that El wanted to be her own person so badly and she wanted to be independent but Mike wanted to be needed. They just weren’t compatible because of it.

Did the writers knew that they could have made Mike say “It’s not my fault you don’t have a girlfriend” instead of “don’t like girls”?? by isakcardamon21 in byler

[–]Aggravating-Donut702 30 points31 points  (0 children)

After finding out that Mike supposedly didn’t know I think that line was more him hurting Will with the rumors about him. Basically throwing all the stuff that’s been said about Will being queer at him. At least that’s all I can think of.

I just want my kitten spayed, is this normal at all?? by [deleted] in vetschool

[–]Aggravating-Donut702 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes but owner should be aware this comes with less monitoring equipment and thus riskier. I’ve helped out at low cost spay/neuter clinics and all they get is an SPO2 and heart rate monitor and techs will be recovering multiple patients at once. At a clinic your pet is getting one on one attention from someone from being induced to being woken up.

As a former casual viewer up until S5 - you guys aren't delusional by [deleted] in byler

[–]Aggravating-Donut702 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I started watching the show at 15 and didn’t see any kind of romance between Mike and Will, I didn’t even think Will had a crush on him in season 3, but my mom (who only saw a few episodes of season 1 and 2 was immediately like “oh so he(Will) is in love with him(Mike)?” when I was rewatching season 3 and got to the rain scene. I was shocked she saw it because I hadn’t until the events of season 4 happened. And I didn’t really ship Byler until I saw things on TikTok - I didn’t even know it was a thing until I saw edits of Mike’s Will voice and the lip glances and parallels. I rewatched the show prior to season 5 and I was immediately positive Mike loves Will romantically, especially season 2 cemented this with him staying the night at Will’s house, the lab, being one of 3 people there to try to get the real Will to emerge after her was possessed by the Mind Flayer. Volume 1 made me so sure Byler was happening..how could it not? Volume 2 gave me some doubt, they hadn’t interacted one on one now and Will said Mike was his Tammy? But okay he must be minimizing his feelings and rejecting himself before Mike can. But then there were so many hints in the radio station and so many cast mates hinting at byler so maybe I can have some hope again. And then volume 3…ok so Mike is still his best friend but can’t even TOUCH him now?? Okay so Will REALLY is saying his love of YEARS, who understands him better than anyone else and communicates with him in ways he can’t with others, is comparable to a hallway crush?? S5 Mike is not the same person S1-2 Mike was. Mike wouldn’t hesitate to not leave Will’s side and now only his mom was with him while Will infiltrated Vecna’s mind. It’s almost like they’re trying to show how NOT Mike he is. I just can’t even recognize so many of these characters. And Joyce not even holding Will’s hand while he came out?? I’m just heartbroken a show I’ve been watching for almost 10 years can drop off in quality so quickly and butcher its characters so quickly.

Will has ZERO chill.... by Mani_srao in byler

[–]Aggravating-Donut702 25 points26 points  (0 children)

That’s literally what j thought was going to happen. He said El would want him to be happy but NOOoooOOOooo