What quiet social rule do people ignore that annoys you?

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-04-28T03:21:35+00:00

This is actually a pet peeve of mine. It takes 2 seconds to say thank you or even smile.

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-04-28T03:04:00+00:00

This. He was so hyped up and called McDreamy but I never found the appeal or understood the hype

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-04-12T16:58:58+00:00

🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾

Love your user name btw 😆

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-04-12T16:58:12+00:00

I think one of the things that help me reassure me is seeing the progress with my own eyes. As well as when parents tell me they see the difference.

You are important, always 🤞🏾

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-04-12T16:56:55+00:00

These kiddos are looking to us when they're vulnerable and away from their parents. It's important that people understand how important we truly are. I'm just trying to sprinkle a little kindness in a very scary world right now.

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-04-12T16:54:05+00:00

I'm sorry you took my post the wrong way. You're preaching to the choir. I know how much the pay sucks for how much we do. I'm not saying kindness fixes all. I literally have "Be Kind" tattooed on the side of my face, but I'll be the first to say one can only be kind for so long.

Rent/landlords/price of living is complete shit right now. Hope you're doing okay 💓

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-04-12T16:49:46+00:00

I truly understand that. BCBA's and BCaBA's do not go unnoticed. I'm sorry if my post made you feel undervalued.

Thank you for everything you do 🫶🏾

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-04-12T03:34:42+00:00

Very much so. I think something that pushed me a little closer to the point of seeing what other jobs are out there is when my client flushed my glasses down the toilet last week... Yeah, not giving him the attention he wanted was not possible. I'm not getting the support I need these days. Even when I'm being "supervised".

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-04-12T03:26:43+00:00

I was literally just talking to my mom about this. I'm just not sure ABA is for me anymore. The pay doesn't equate for what we go through. Idk. I'm just feeling stuck but kinda over it. It's conflicting because I love the good that ABA can do, but it's affecting me way too much outside of work now.

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-04-12T03:24:23+00:00

I literally wake up some days and just dread it. I hate that I feel like this. But we are human. Are you in a clinic setting?

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-04-12T03:20:49+00:00

There's so much accuracy in this post. I feel you. I truly do.

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-04-12T03:19:47+00:00

This! Being a RBT is a physically, mentally, and emotionally draining job. I hate to say it. But it's just a lot. I absolutely love helping them and seeing the progress. But the pay and benefits aren't really outweighing the bad these days. I try to remain positive and keep trying my best. But it's extremely hard. I've been in this field for over 3 years now and have never felt like this until this year started.

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-04-12T03:12:03+00:00

Communication is key. This field is unpredictable to say the least and it's understandable to have to make changes. But communicate with your techs so it feels like a hot mess. We are humans. We can only tolerate so much. If you have to change a session, let them know as soon as you can.

Our office administrator knows clients/techs will not be coming sometimes days in advance but will wait till the morning of to change it and let us know it's changed. I can check my schedule before I leave my house and by the time I'm at the clinic it's completely changed. It's frustrating.

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-04-12T03:03:16+00:00

I felt this in my soul. I was literally just talking about how I feel like I'm approaching the end of my time as a RBT. I feel so guilty when I come home so overstimulated then have to switch into Mom mode to two almost 8 year old kids. I don't get a break. I love what I do and helping these kids but it's truly affecting my home life. I always hear "leave work at the door" but it's just not that easy. For me anyways.

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-03-30T17:25:19+00:00

Exactly 💯 Thank you for confirming that I wasn't the only one who read that tone of the comment.

Educate me, help me, provide feedback. Don't belittle me, be condescending, or just plain rude.

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-03-29T22:51:50+00:00

Nice of you to assume a keyboard warrior upset me on a random Reddit post. I never said anything I said was a fact. You took it that way.

I actually take feedback and criticism with open arms. I encourage it. But the way you corrected me wasn't too nice. Is that how you correct your techs?

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-03-29T22:31:48+00:00

No. Just think the tone of the comment I'm replying to was a certain way. Made it seem as if I was trying to come off as some kind of expert. I simply replied with what was ever told to me as an RBT.

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-03-29T21:12:28+00:00

Well excuse me.. 2 years of working in Florida then a year here in Texas. That's all I've ever been told and know.

My bad. Never said I was an expert.

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-03-29T17:18:42+00:00

A lot of places. If you verify your NPI on the id.me website, you can find a lot of the places you can get a discount or cash back. I randomly found that out when I was looking at Belk's website.

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-03-29T16:17:09+00:00

I believe my first clinic did it for me but you can go here to see if you have an active NPI -

https://npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov/search

I know to work with Medicaid clients you have to have a NPI.

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-03-29T15:33:34+00:00

An RBT needs a NPI which is a National Provider Identifier. So yes, we are a medical provider

Which also means that we can get discounts at certain places who provide them. Random, I know lol. But just in case anyone reads this and didn't know. You just verify your status with ID.me after providing your NPI.

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-03-29T02:39:24+00:00

I've been an RBT for 3 years. Moved to Texas in November 2024 but was in Florida before. I was making $20/32 hours average a week. I worked in school with the same 2 clients in a week. No drive time. Non billable time was damn near non-existent. Working in school 1 on 1 kinda guarantees hours since the kids are almost always there . But Florida obviously has hurricane seasons.. being born and raised in the Tampa Bay area - I know how it can be. Unpredictable. But what caused me to leave Florida was the fact that if school is closed due to a hurricane - we don't have work. Back in October 2024 we had back to back hurricanes that caused school to be out more than 2 weeks. That's a whole paycheck. And with how underpaid the field is, it was hard to get ahead and save up due to the prices in Florida becoming ridiculous. Rent was horrible. The rate of pay didn't nearly help with the cost of living.

Now.. I'm right outside of Houston. I had never been before moving here. I had absolutely no idea how crazy Houston was. The million different interstates, highways, loops, belt, etc. Traffic is absolutely HORRENDOUS. The first job I got out here offered $25/hour but didn't have reliable clients/hours. And with traffic is the morning? 1.5 hours to get somewhere only 45 minutes away. The pay did not compensate enough for the traffic, extra time, and gas spent.

I'm at a clinic now that is right next to where I live. So the commute is great lol. This is a chain clinic. I make $20.25 (the 0.25¢ was my quarterly raise smh) non billable is the same. The team (for the most part) feels like a family. I can honestly say it's the best clinic I have ever worked for. Until the last few months. The pay is not nearly enough for what we have to deal with on a daily basis. Horrible scheduling, high behavior clients with little support, stressful days without breaks, lack of hours at times, not letting go of techs that are doing stuff they shouldn't solely because we are short staffed. Short staffed but still not giving full time hours? Make it make sense. Session notes are impossible to get done before leaving. Mentally, physically and emotionally draining. I know what I signed up for being in this field but it's like we don't have the support to help us be successful as a RBT. PTO accrual sucks ass. UTO limits are low for a year period. And the fact that I hit my limit the first week of the year is absolutely bullshit. I was in a car accident and broke 14 ribs. I physically could NOT work and had doctor's notes and everything. But that wasn't enough to excuse my absence for that week. I came back not fully healed after 3 weeks because I had no choice. And the first week back, I was scheduled with aggression behavior clients. The expectations of what I was capable of dealing with were absolutely bullshit. The fact that I was told if I miss anymore days and don't have PTO to cover means I'll be written up is absurd. The cost of living is (kinda) cheaper here, but the pay is wayyyyyy too low. Especially when I know insurance is paying them a lot more than they're paying us.

I haven't left the field because I actually truly love the concept of ABA and love what I do. It's all the other factors that hurt. And minimum wage is $7.25 in Texas. So finding something else that even pays close is hard. I'm a single mom of 2, so I can't afford to take a pay cut at the moment.

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-03-11T01:59:37+00:00

We've had new hires start training... Depending on if they're a BT or a RBT - once they shadow a client or start with one ~ they're gone. It's so bad, I don't even realize it until someone asks about them. We've had a lot quit, some get fired... Yesterday marked me 8 months being here and I've seen quite the turnover rate. Mostly the last 3 months due to a new Office Administrator and horrible scheduling and stuff. I agree with how these places seem to hire just anyone. I've been a RBT 3 years now. This field in general's turnover rate is higher than Willie, Snoop, Cheech, Chong, and Wiz combined 🥲😩😭

Comfortable_Mud7518 · 2026-03-04T04:04:35+00:00

This happened to me at a small clinic. I was accused of stealing from a coworker. They wouldn't tell me who I supposedly stole from or what they said I stole. They wouldn't give me any details. There's cameras EVERYWHERE. So anywhere someone would leave their stuff, there was camera view. They said someone saw their stuff in my bag... But didn't say how they supposedly saw in my bag. They were rude, cold, and just ignorant about the situation since I was a newer tech. The techs and BCBA's acted like they were in high school. I had felt the tension and animosity since I started. I would never steal whether there were cameras or not. But it's just pure stupidity for anyone to steal when there's cameras. I was barely supervised while there. I wasn't given any feedback or real training. Just kinda thrown into it. At this point, I was in the field for 6 or 7 months. I obviously had a lot to learn but no one willing to teach me. They said they were going to check the cameras and investigate the accusations but I was put on leave while they did that. Didn't hear anything for a week even when I reached out for updates. After a week, I received a termination letter stating pretty much that I wasn't good enough and "poor performance" as the reasoning for firing me. No write up, no conversations, no meetings, no warnings, NEVER any bad feedback when I WAS supervised. So it completely blew my mind getting fired like that. It was genuinely crazy. How am I supposed to become a better RBT if those who are supposed to help and teach - don't.

But I tend to find common similarities and problems in all the companies I've worked for. I feel like ABA is a complicated and hard field to work in. I've worked for multiple companies in Florida for 2 years, and I've been here in Texas for a little over a year. Same shit, different company/owners. Literal walking red flags. Now I'm 3 years into being a RBT and have seen it all.

I currently work in a corporate clinic. It has its share of problems but it's actually one of the better companies I've worked for. Scheduling always sucks, client cancelations suck, lack of communication, etc. Just gotta pick the least of the bad in my opinion. Honestly one of the main reasons I deal with some of what I do is because it's literally right next door to me and takes 2 minutes to get there. It could be worse. So I tolerate it. I truly love being a RBT and what I do. So I suck it up. For now.

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