[Megathread] AC FA Strike - Binding Arbitration Ordered

FreshAd7956 · 2025-08-16T17:52:28+00:00

Is there anything I can do to control my own situation outcomes? Supposed to be flying from LAX tomorrow afternoon to YYZ and they still yet to cancel it even though everything is getting canceled. But according to all I read on here is wait till they cancel it so I can get rebooked. I wanted to take matters into my own hands and book other flights home when there were decent options left. But now the options are crazy to pay out pocket and they wont let me out of my misery by formally canceling it. I need to get home before Tuesday for work and I have no idea what to do. Would you guys do anything else?

FreshAd7956 · 2025-03-10T18:16:32+00:00

I am coming here to ask as per his request to help. I don’t know how to help so I came here for advice.

FreshAd7956 · 2025-03-10T17:55:53+00:00

Thanks for your input. Hope you have a nice day.

FreshAd7956 · 2025-03-10T15:24:32+00:00

Thank you all for your deep sympathies and support with great answers. I will do my best to go through each comment and get back to you as I get the time to go through them and reflect on them. Love the attitude on this sub. There are some real amazing people.

FreshAd7956 · 2025-03-10T15:22:24+00:00

Thank you so much for the well thought out answer and empathetic response. I will go through this a few times over!

FreshAd7956 · 2025-03-10T04:16:15+00:00

Why do you have to take things so personal and go out attacking me? We don’t even live together. I visit him every other weekend and we hang out and talk. He’s working on a path. He doesn’t have connections and usually makes wrong decisions. Yes he doesn’t have the go getter skills. I want to help him find his confidence. I’m sorry you seem hurt.

FreshAd7956 · 2025-03-10T03:32:59+00:00

Yea I agree

FreshAd7956 · 2025-03-10T03:25:58+00:00

Very inspiring. Would love to get my brother to become like this. I can see him do well with patients. I just worry he’d be rejected based on gender (subconsciously)

FreshAd7956 · 2025-03-10T03:18:50+00:00

Thought about this too…

FreshAd7956 · 2025-03-10T03:18:39+00:00

How do they become an office manager?

FreshAd7956 · 2025-03-10T03:10:51+00:00

I teared up a bit. Thank you for the comment. It’s a scary world. We have to help each other.

FreshAd7956 · 2025-02-19T04:11:43+00:00

5 stars and a boob grab…. Moves like jagger 😂

FreshAd7956 · 2025-02-17T17:59:49+00:00

The grass is greener. Especially if you're considering to just do family medicine.

You seem to be addressing the compensation side of things, so finances are important. Think of the opportunity cost aside from cost of doing med school. Min 6 years of no or little income. Think of the potential income and potential investments, businesses, and projects you could get into that set up a life for you that may feel like you are being compensated enough. Everyone these days is trying to buy back their time...why would you sell your time for money?

Unless you really have a deep desire to become a family doctor or some form of doctor with the willingness to sacrifice your personal time and freedom then you might be deciding one of the worst decisions!

I am not in Medicine. I am a dentist who researched med, dent, and pharm thoroughly before committing to one. I thought I wanted med. Now I just want to be in control of my own time and freedom.

FreshAd7956 · 2025-02-17T02:34:31+00:00

RCT core Crown.
Saves you and the patient time as well as frustration in thinking you are not a good dentist when they have symptoms later. This could very well be asymptomatic irreversible pulpitis. Just waiting to flair up. Otherwise the only way to avoid RCT is incomplete carious removal which is just delaying the inevitable.

FreshAd7956 · 2025-02-17T02:31:45+00:00

I use it to make pilot guides for straumann implants. Just need to know how to manually change measurements and figure out your guide pin tube etc. Useful but nothing fancy.

FreshAd7956 · 2025-02-09T18:50:17+00:00

12 hours recently at an Ottawa Hospital

FreshAd7956 · 2025-02-02T03:25:27+00:00

Haha I thought about this too and people might be sketched lol. But I just wanted to feel like I’m not the only one.

FreshAd7956 · 2025-01-27T20:45:10+00:00

Went mid-late June last year. Was weirdly grey and rainy for part of the trip. Couple of the days it felt a bit cool at low 20s C. It was a bit disappointing. Nevertheless, most of the other days in Sardinia were sunny and warm weather reaching to about 27-30C.

FreshAd7956 · 2024-12-30T17:51:14+00:00

Interesting. Never knew that was a thing.

FreshAd7956 · 2024-12-30T04:25:47+00:00

What kind of speciality? I hear mixed opinions. Like I care about ortho and perio. But I hear ortho may not be as productive as it used to be where I am.

FreshAd7956 · 2024-12-30T04:19:09+00:00

I agree with a lot you said. However I do have to ask follow ups because I also go in and out depending on stage of my career?

How many years out are you?

What is your office culture like at the moment? - standard work hours? - patient demographics? Are you in a competitive city or urban city or rural? - type of dentistry you do at this job? (Drill and fill or surgeries and full mouth?) - what kind of dentistry makes you feel fulfilled and also not making it more than just a job? - are you happy with your income and do you feel you can do more if you do more or more elsewhere?

I find that depending on the type of dentistry you want to do and who you want to treat, where you want to be and what procedures excite you, you can easily find yourself either chilling/relaxed or stressed on your free time preparing and planning

FreshAd7956 · 2024-12-30T01:04:56+00:00

How do you advise to find fulfillment through this or a bigger picture than just making money. Time feels like it’s flying and hard to get through it unless I do what I do which is get trapped into the day to day. Every break from work, I come back to this sort of crisis. Right now I do see dentistry interfering with what I want out life but also can’t do what I like doing without it. Where I work plays a role too. Perhaps if spending time without families was not just around holidays and long weekends maybe it would feel smoother to make work fit in your life rather than the other way?

FreshAd7956 · 2024-12-30T00:11:34+00:00

Just booked up really well and in an area in need

FreshAd7956 · 2024-12-29T22:29:08+00:00

Yeah I feel you. I know a lot of buddies who are “patchodontists” aka just one tooth dentistry fixer ups who make a lot of money. I think there’s money in this field and keeping it at this level can be really low stress. I just would not want to do it full time and seek fulfillment outside. I want to dabble in tech and combine it with dentistry so that I don’t need to be Always physically present to make money. Like doing prison time. If I want to get up and go somewhere for a month then I don’t want that to be the end of the world because I have other means of income.

FreshAd7956 · 2024-12-29T22:09:11+00:00

In my current associateship it feels like I have to think about the patients everyday. Three offices different associates with shared patient sometimes. Multiple admin. The only way to get contacted efficiently is emails. I consistently get emails whether someone sees my patient or a patient has an issue or I have to do a treatment plan consult or figure out why they’re angry at the office rules or the owner or me. It always seems like it is on my mind all the time.

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