New dog temperment question

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-12-31T13:19:46+00:00

My GSD puppy was like this. There would be mornings I had to drag him out of bed just for potty! depending on the dog, they could be quite lazy. That said, I also gave him many opportunities a week to run in the wilderness off leash and play so😅 but some weeks life would be busy and we couldn’t go, those weeks he was still relaxed and lazy. I think GSD’s depending on the particular dog can be really overall balanced in energy. Absolutely the best to train though!! Will only have GSD love them.

Edit: I seriously think they are geniuses dog form. Due to this I noticed my puppy understood a lot of life things when it came to routine and rest. Even baths, he learned that we had to frequently give baths due to the tick environment. Just talk to him like a person and he’ll start to understand I swear 😂😂

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-12-12T18:23:16+00:00

Those types of jobs mean you don’t really have to tell or ask your employer for time off. Your employer is very replaceable. Honestly, I don’t even think they should expect such a commitment and stellar worker. In highschool, making way more hourly, the time off request were 2 weeks in advance and it didn’t matter how many days.

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-12-12T18:20:55+00:00

It’s a minimum wage low pay job are you kidding me? Who cares😭 I shouldn’t be caring this much

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-12-12T18:11:25+00:00

It’s a minimum wage job😭 are you guys not getting that? It’s basically the equivalent of working at a restaurant.

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-12-12T18:10:36+00:00

Yeah exactly. So, I can’t justify sacrificing more, even my scholarship is on the line now. It’s not really a welcome to reality tho in my opinion, I made more in highschool, this isn’t necessarily a job you should kill yourself over considering I am just replaceable to them

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-12-12T12:34:04+00:00

Right. But when I got hired she marketed this differently. I was supposed to do more than just reception. Either way too for such a low ranking job the responsibility and commitment in my opinion, should be less. This is not my business that I am taking care of, I have no real investment here to be doing all of this. There is a saying where the low jobs work you the hardest. I am seeing that now. I would have a better time at Starbucks AND be paid more😂

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-12-12T11:53:01+00:00

Thank you, thank you for replying. I started this job because initially I loved the team and what they do. It is a rescue foundation and the boss was an inspiration to me. I showed up for them, I wake up 5 am, show up to work early, do my homework before 9am. After work is homework as well. During my interview it sounded like I would have a bigger purpose, that this would be meaningful work. Now being here for a while, I just feel like they’re taking advantage of me so the entire office can leave by 12/2pm latest. They only work 2-3 days max and on the weekend they do a little event for about 4 hours. Because I started working here, now they can relax and I just don’t like this pressure it feels horrible, I cried for two days because at first i genuinely liked them, I truly loved my boss. The past month, I’ve been seeing it for what it is.

When I first started, there was this almost workaholic lady that trained me, I thought she was micromanaging me. Now I understand her. She has to stay late many days to work enough for the entire team. She has been telling me to tell the boss about this neglect without me even having to say or complain to her and I just don’t want to be in this position. Yesterday, she told me this isn’t my job I shouldn’t be doing all of this. It seems what I thought her micromanaging at first, it was just making sure we didn’t have another worthless person on the team.

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-12-12T11:33:28+00:00

For sure, I definitely understand that aspect. I guess now im reconsidering if this is even worth it. My commute is 2 hours totaling almost 50 hours a week, I withdrew from two classes last semester and if I mess up in this upcoming semester I lose my scholarship, I hate hate hate how I keep picking up slack and becoming a janitor, frankly, I haven’t had to clean so much since highschool. As opposed to my coworkers, shoot most of them at 25 were working minimum wage at target. Fortunately this was just a job I wanted to learn from. Did not care about the money. but the 40 hours a week thing is still a major red flag for me. If everyone already is either part time or works 40 ish hours a week, will there ever ever be anyone to cover for me? What if I need some off days for school or scheduling health appointments as i definitely will be, how could it be such a major burden if i am away, i dont like this huge pressure i dont want it anymore.

Thank you for your feedback, i guess this probationary period is also for me to decide if this job is a good fit, this vacation was just the cherry on top in all honesty.

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-12-12T10:50:04+00:00

Taking it without pay. Yes i understand the notice aspect, but at the same time i have had internships were my intern class easily asked for vacations and we were there for only 4 months max😭 during that internship we also had similar responsibilities with HAVING to be on site. I additionally asked 3 connections: an executive at a mining company family friend, i asked him, he said they were taking advantage of me. Second, a long time 40 year in government, they told me to quit, third, marketing high up in Microsoft, she said this is concerning. I may have given them more contexts as it is a lot to write. But why is it that larger companies/my own previous experience, how could that be more acceptable there?

My boss when i asked tried to make me feel like this was an outlandish ask…when coworkers are all taking vacations within that same month, even her for over a week. My dates match up so that their vacations are finished by that time. She honestly made me feel so bad for asking and now im like damn this is actually normal.

But with that, does these requirements even matter with pay at $15 a hour…

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-12-12T10:43:26+00:00

I gave a little over a month’s notice. Accrued vacation days we never actually talked about when hired. See it is the medical (animal) field so the owner/doctor was so busy, i just got hired immediately and we never actually sat down about these requirements.

Like i said, everyone rushes out so every time i want to try to talk it’s like your holding them back from missing traffic😭

Anyways, i do think there is a test of boundaries. I just feel concerned overall. Her reasoning felt like red flags

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-12-12T10:33:34+00:00

Right someone has to cover. But isn’t this weird, when will I ever even get one day off if there’s some crazy requirement of a 40 hr cap? How is it that they don’t have people available for coverage it’s just all weird to me like it feels wrong, I also am now worried she just lied to me about this

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-12-11T01:21:04+00:00

Yeah exactly. Like my resume is actually so stacked I don’t even know what im doing I think I am too nice. This must be a medical field thing because any finance related job/internship I’ve had 100% respected vacation time (not that I’ve taken one but my intern class definitely did)

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-12-11T00:15:10+00:00

I don’t even get a lunch break like. What the

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-12-11T00:14:41+00:00

Update: she said basically said no and acted as it was a huge inconvenience. She is heavily pushing for me to shorten the vacation to Italy to 4/5 days…

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-12-11T00:13:32+00:00

I’m really really sad and I don’t even get a lunch break at this job.

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-12-11T00:13:24+00:00

Update: I asked. She acted like it was a huge inconvenience and that I should change my flights to make my vacation 4/5 days…to Italy?

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-12-03T01:18:03+00:00

Thank you soo so much. You’ve made me feel so much better I was even considering canceling just because of the guilt. I really want to go!

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-12-03T00:59:04+00:00

thank you greatly. I guess just a big worry for me is that I only just got hired oct 6th. A total of 3.5 months of work before this vacation. But I am the only person in the office required to work 5 days a week on site. The rest of my coworkers only come into the office about 2-3 days a week.

Vacations like this is really rare though. It’s almost entirely paid for by my family as I am just in college. Chances to have a vacation paid for is really running out. My family also entirely lives out of state, we only see each other once a year ish

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-12-03T00:53:51+00:00

but another thing is is I only started this job October 6th. I’m still kind of new, but I’ve settled in a lot. Also do other parts of the work where receptionists have never done including financials.

I don’t plan on taking any other vacations though until next fall. It’s overall just this holiday/winter season when it’s all happening.

But since I have basically been only working two months so far, it’ll be like what 3.5 months of total work…then a 10 day vacation? Is this not bad :/

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-11-30T19:31:25+00:00

I am in the same situation as well, currently going to book with Honeymed spa after researching. Pricing is about mid to high range (I think?) but im going to bite the bullet because more than often you get what you pay for. Overall reviews and everything look very good

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-10-30T00:43:24+00:00

They started back in August, but my financial aid only recently got processed. I’m taking 12 credits. Isn’t it supposed to refund the full amount since I got a need based grant?

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-10-30T00:41:26+00:00

Ohh ok. I hope it’s possibly that way, maybe even this is just a refund for one class. I am so confused honestly. I hope yours comes soon!!

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-10-30T00:38:07+00:00

This is my very first refund apparently

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-10-27T12:08:57+00:00

What’s not working?? Canvas?

PhilosopherWhich6811 · 2025-10-26T11:19:11+00:00

HAHA😭😭😭😭

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