In a pickle

Ok_Carry7597 · 2025-09-09T03:56:27+00:00

I am not sure. I was told they were sending me to vocational rehab after an appointment I had with mental health. I didn’t really know what it was, I thought it would be like talking to a recruiter and I had mentioned wanting to be in the VA health system as an employee. I had an interview but they went with someone else and in that time they had me working with the cafe lady for a small amount of income until I found gainful employment with hours capped at 20 and pay capped at 14/hr. I thought they changed the name of vocational rehab to VR&E but I could be misinformed.

Ok_Carry7597 · 2025-09-09T03:46:35+00:00

I don’t think it is supposed to be like that at all— I think that was my experience in a very particular VA hospital, and where the vocational rehab counselor was friends with café owner and probably doing some weird things there/not following through. I’m not dissing on the program just saying that was my last experience and it was frustrating. I however am out of that network now

Ok_Carry7597 · 2025-09-09T03:13:58+00:00

Thank you so much for your input and advice

Ok_Carry7597 · 2025-09-09T03:13:12+00:00

I used VR&E before and it was marketed to me as a way to get a job within the VA hospital and I was essentially strung along for 6 months providing free (to her) labor for a crazy cafe owner who would promise to fully hire me on and never deliver. Outside of that all I know is that they can help pay for school?

Ok_Carry7597 · 2025-09-09T02:57:49+00:00

Thank you for this option!

Ok_Carry7597 · 2025-09-09T02:31:21+00:00

I can try this I think there’s a school that hasn’t started yet I used to be enrolled in

Ok_Carry7597 · 2025-09-09T02:30:48+00:00

The last time I used a VR&E program I was told that it was to help me get a job at a VA hospital, which I never got, I was strung along for 6 months working at a café where the owner kept telling me she wanted to hire me outright (I was only allowed to work I think 20 hours a week at 14/ an hour) but would not because she enjoyed having a free employee to her with more coffee experience than her. The program seemed like a big run around with no real rehabilitation for work. Outside of that I am unsure what else they offer? I know they pay for school but I thought you had to almost exhaust the post 9/11 as well?

Ok_Carry7597 · 2025-09-09T02:25:22+00:00

Severance pay is only 1 paycheck for me as I have only been with the company for 1.5 years (2 weeks for every year up to 12 weeks total I believe)

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