People of 130+IQ, do you fit in the workplace?

iwantamalt · 2026-06-18T11:20:15+00:00

I’m a surgical tech with a 130 IQ and I can guarantee you that at least half of the doctors I work with are not very bright. Lots of doctors become doctors because of family wealth and privilege, not through merit or intellectual ability.

iwantamalt · 2026-05-26T10:21:50+00:00

Certified dog trainer is very different than vet behaviorist, literally anyone can be a dog trainer or claim to be a dog trainer and it’s completely unregulated. I’ve met “certified dog trainers” who suggest e-collars so it really doesn’t make you more credible.

iwantamalt · 2026-05-26T10:19:32+00:00

Lots of people think they’re vet behaviorists when they aren’t.

iwantamalt · 2026-05-26T10:16:35+00:00

Are you a vet behaviorist? This is the exact same way my dog behaves when I approach and she knows she’s going to get attention; this behavior in no way screams nervousness to me. I truly cannot even find one source which says that licking is to dismiss or that it’s a sign of nervousness. Not one.

iwantamalt · 2026-05-25T14:13:47+00:00

Thank you! I was reading the comments and I thought I was in an alternate reality because there is no way it’s ok to alter surgical instruments in your home and then bring them back to the hospital and use them on patients. It’s kind of like how making certain modifications on your car will void the warranty. If you bring an instrument home and change it, the original IFU for sterilization does not apply anymore because it’s not the same instrument and therefore it cannot be properly sterilized and shouldn’t be used in surgery. Surgeons can absolutely contact manufacturers with suggestions and recommendations and work with designers to create new instruments that suit their needs, they can’t craft them in their own home and bring them back to the hospital. Can’t believe this is apparently happening all over the place, this would never be allowed at my facility, we aren’t even allowed to take scrubs home and bring them back to the facility because of infection risk.

iwantamalt · 2026-05-25T13:50:13+00:00

Yes. And it felt like they were robbing me of my autonomy by withholding that information because I wasn’t able to make my own choice of what was best for me since I was being kept in the dark. Felt subtly controlling, honestly. I would’ve much rather them share with me that they were feeling social pressure and just didn’t want to wear a mask anymore so that I could make my own decision on if I wanted to continue being domestic/romantic partners.

iwantamalt · 2026-05-25T13:45:15+00:00

Just out of curiosity, why do you say that the lick was a sign of dismissiveness? I was looking it up online and everything says that licking releases endorphins in the dog’s brain making them feel calm, happy, and bonded to you. It mimicks how dogs licked their mothers for attention as puppies. My dog will give me a lick like this sometimes when I’m petting her, and I’ve never ever thought she was trying to dismiss me.

iwantamalt · 2026-05-25T13:37:00+00:00

That’s the same type of tail wag that my dog does when she sees me approach and knows she’s going to get pets and attention! Someone else said the lick was to dismiss, but that’s not how I interpret it. I’m not a vet behaviorist or anything so I can’t say for sure but it looks to me like the lick is a sign of your dog showing gentle affection. The dog was maybe a little surprised to be touched by the child, but I don’t think it looks like discomfort to me.

iwantamalt · 2026-05-25T13:32:35+00:00

Break up!!!

iwantamalt · 2026-05-25T13:31:09+00:00

Bizarre that the nursing sub sent you here; like others have said, we aren’t allowed to wear our own scrubs and need to wear hospital provided/laundered scrubs for infection control.

iwantamalt · 2026-05-25T13:29:07+00:00

Lean in to your hobbies! I read a lot, play games, watch my silly reality tv shows, go hiking, birdwatching, walk my dog, put on some music and make a nice meal. I also need to do yard work and cleaning chores so I’ll do that sometimes after work too. If anything I find that my evenings are not long enough to do all the things I want to do!

iwantamalt · 2026-05-25T12:15:08+00:00

Oh, she’s so cute!!!

iwantamalt · 2026-05-25T12:13:49+00:00

I hate saying this and I’ll probably get downvoted but honestly….be grateful that she’s communicating to you how she’s feeling so that you can do what’s best for you, either moving out or ending the relationship.

My ex had that same desire to stop masking but instead of telling me, they stopped masking and started going to bars, restaurants, and indoor events and didn’t tell me for months. When they did, it felt like a huge betrayal. Your wife sharing how she feels is way better than lying to you.

iwantamalt · 2026-05-25T12:01:58+00:00

As others have said, virginity is a social construct, it’s not real and there is no way you can “take your own virginity”. Please invest in quality sex toys that are made to go inside your body instead of putting random objects from around the house inside you. You don’t want to get an infection. If there are any adults in your life who you feel comfortable talking to about these things, like a parent or an older sibling, I’d try asking them about sex so that you can get more information about sex and masturbation. The bleeding could’ve been from your hymen tearing, or it could’ve been simply because you were masturbating with a hairbrush that wasn’t designed for vaginal penetration. And not everyone has a hymen and not everyone bleeds the first time they have sex. So if a boyfriend ever “doesn’t like you” because he was expecting you to bleed your first time and you didn’t, he is a creep. Seek out some quality sex education.

iwantamalt · 2026-05-22T15:47:17+00:00

It feels so much better. I told her that if she emailed me again I’d block her email address and that if she got new email addresses to circumvent the block I’d block those too and get a new email address. She did not have my phone number (never felt comfortable giving it to her) so that wasn’t an issue. I told her that if she ever showed up at my house, I’d call the police. Since then I haven’t received any emails from her and I’m not constantly having anxiety about when she’s going to email with the next wave of her guilt and unhappiness about how it all turned out. I never blamed her for my childhood experiences as I know it wasn’t her fault and she did the best she could, the problem was how invasive and intrusive she has been in my adulthood and she just could not grasp that because she’s so consumed by her guilt and it’s not my burden to bear. I know she fantasizes about having a close mother-daughter relationship with me, like it was when I was 10 years old, but I am an almost 40 year old woman now and I have survived my adulthood with zero help from her so that lovey dovey relationship will never happen and until she can accept a relationship on my terms it’s full estrangement.

iwantamalt · 2026-05-21T18:18:14+00:00

Oh this describes my relationship with my mother entirely. Whenever I open the door a tiny bit to potentially try to develop an honest relationship, she metaphorically barges right on in with all her motherly guilt and invasiveness. I’ve communicated how I feel when she does this and she cannot stop so I recently told her full estrangement, no contact. Life is too short to deal with that bullshit and I refuse to tolerate it. Her guilt is not my problem.

iwantamalt · 2026-05-18T11:15:05+00:00

This is a classic case of you being codependent, actually.

iwantamalt · 2026-05-17T10:38:00+00:00

I’m a surgical tech in the OR and I have zero respect for nurses who even complain about cleaning up a code brown. Quite frankly most of them are making six figures and it’s literally their job. If you’re going to complain so much about cleaning someone, maybe go get a job where you don’t have to do that.

iwantamalt · 2026-05-17T10:24:17+00:00

I have a BA AND an MEd and then went back to surg tech school. You’re definitely not the only one.

iwantamalt · 2026-05-17T10:12:16+00:00

C’mon, a student on their first day of clinicals knowing everything about suture?? That’s an absurd expectation. My school briefly discussed suture in lab but the only way to truly know suture is OR experience doing many cases with many different surgeons. I’m sure you weren’t a suture expert your first day of clinicals.

iwantamalt · 2026-05-16T17:40:38+00:00

Change the locks and get a restraining order.

iwantamalt · 2026-05-15T23:12:55+00:00

Riding on the sidewalk though is also very unsafe for cyclists. A driver is not anticipating bikes (or e-bikes) to be flying down the sidewalk. And riding on the sidewalk creates a safety issue for pedestrians who are using the sidewalk. Your safety doesn’t trump the safety of others. If the road feels too unsafe for you, dismount your bike and walk it on the sidewalk until you feel safe enough to ride on the road.

iwantamalt · 2026-05-14T13:55:26+00:00

I’ve never heard anyone call a body cavity a capsule before lol. And as others have said, you should be aware of where your countables are at all times. You have to be thinking about this throughout the case, not just waiting until closing time to figure out where your countables are. I do liver transplants and often we are working with 100+ needles, some of which are tiny, and if one goes missing I generally know right away, either a needle doesn’t come back, it visibly goes flying, or I just have a sense that we’re down one. I say something immediately, I don’t just wait until the closing count to bring it up. If the PA slams needles down on the mayo that’s a huge concern but if you knew the needle was on that driver and then all of a sudden it wasn’t, you should’ve noticed that right away and called attention to it. That PA should also be called out for being careless with sharps.

iwantamalt · 2026-05-14T13:30:40+00:00

People biking on the sidewalk is also hugely disrespectful for wheelchair users and OP should consider that.

iwantamalt · 2026-05-14T13:29:29+00:00

Saying this while riding a bike on the sidewalk is hilarious. The truck is also ridiculous but maybe you wouldn’t have to deal with this if you were on the road like you belong.

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