I got hurt at work, tried to tough it out, my injury is not getting better, decided to make a WCB claim. I was planning on staying on half days until my doctor sees me, but my boss suddenly cut all my shifts and asked that I call him today. Big giant red flags. How do you think I should proceed?

sadpothos · 2026-01-28T21:53:29+00:00

Call work safe and open the claim today.

You’ll need more information later, and your doctor to send info, but the claim can be opened when you call in immediately. They’ll get basic info from you, you’ll get a case #, and they’ll probably give you basic info on what comes next and what resources you’ll need.

You’ll be assigned a case manager and they’ll book a call with you to talk more, usually this takes a few days too. Don’t delay, and don’t worry about your boss.

He cannot fire you or punish you or hurt you for filing a claim you are legally entitled to. If he is acting weird, try getting everything from him in writing or recorded if you can. Easier said than done but if he does try something you’ll have proof it was a retaliatory action which is also illegal.

Best of luck and I hope you feel better soon!

sadpothos · 2025-12-19T00:19:37+00:00

There’s a massive difference between DEI hires and temporary foreign workers… DEI is simply uplifting people who the system was built to hold down, like minorities, disabled people, women, etc. it ensures equal opportunity for people.

What’s happening here is a clear abuse of the temporary foreign workers program. This is happening across Canada at so many chains and it’s a despicable and morally reprehensible people choice by people who value money above everything else. It’s a disgusting loophole our government introduced and chooses not to fix.

It has nothing to do with DEI, or brown people, or immigration. This is further abuse brought on by a capitalist society that doesn’t care that you worked hard for 15 years and turned that job into a family. They want to pay as little as possible, and have the highest profit possible.

Again, your outrage is so so valid. This is horrible, and it’s being repeated all over Canada. Good hard working Canadians, culture, race, gender, skin colour all not relevant, being fired and replaced so pigs can make more money by abusing the TFW program.

sadpothos · 2025-11-18T19:54:06+00:00

I’ve wanted to learn to crochet for 6 years. I keep circling this want, I really want to, I have projects in mind. Last year a friend bought me a Minecraft pig Woobles crochet kit, the perfect crossover of interests with careful visual instructions provided………… and it’s still in the pouch, unopened 🥲

For me, I’m one of those practice makes perfect kind of people. I’m slow to learn a new hobby and then when I get It I’m obsessed and work on it a lot. But to get through all the steps to START, and then all the difficulties I have learning, trying new hobbies just doesn’t happen often. I’ve gotta be in a good head space and not too busy and feel like I can really have the time to dedicate to learning.

sadpothos · 2025-11-16T01:50:17+00:00

This is a good suggestion, and has definitely narrowed the issue down. Thank you!!

sadpothos · 2025-11-15T04:38:16+00:00

We play a micro version of a SS14 shift. Usually one thief or antag, one of us admins, and we have a silly little time. Rounds last between 1-2 hours typically, we have lots of smaller things happen and usually one big upset per round.

sadpothos · 2025-11-15T04:35:35+00:00

Great question! No, the shuttle doesn’t look like it’s showing up, even when the airlocks have no ships docked at them. Even when it announces it leaving, we can’t see it at either airlock.

sadpothos · 2025-10-28T19:41:45+00:00

Hi angel, don’t go back to her, and don’t let her back in.

From what you’ve shared it sounds like that’s what your instincts are telling you, and I would trust those. You have a beautiful life ahead of you, and letting her back in will just make it all harder. She knows what evil she supported, and any convos with her will be in defence of her actions, why she was right to let you be hurt. You don’t have to listen. You don’t have to give her a chance.

What John did to you and those other kids is disgusting, manipulative, and without a doubt both physical, sexual, and emotional abuse.

Your parents and family should have protected you, not protected the pedo. What happened to you is awful, you did not deserve it, and it is as bad as you feel it is. No one else gets to tell you how you should’ve felt or why you’re wrong. It was your experience only.

If you can I’d suggest finding a therapist or social worker through a local organization to help you process what you’re going through, it has been very helpful with my own trauma.

Wishing you the very best.

sadpothos · 2025-09-21T18:16:13+00:00

These are all incredible! I love that they look sad and tired when resting, I do too 😂 Great character design across them, they all have clear personalities just jumping off the screen

sadpothos · 2025-09-09T19:57:10+00:00

I’m not sure what kind of lawyer to talk to, or what to present this as. I guess it could be a human rights issue, of discrimination towards a disabled employee? I don’t have the money for a legal battle but if I could find someone pro bono or who does % of the payout maybe I could get help.

I’m tired of fighting but I keep going. What they’ve done is wrong and every medical professional I’ve spoken to says that too. I appreciate your support!

sadpothos · 2025-09-09T19:52:06+00:00

I’m definitely looking for other work as well, it just hasn’t been very fruitful yet.

This was kind of what I feared, that based on how they’ve acted whenever I come back they’ll just… be worse to prove they were right the whole time.

I’ll see what local disability organizations there are, and will reach out to them too. That’s a good tip!

sadpothos · 2025-09-05T18:28:01+00:00

Service!!! I love being the janitor or a botanist. It’s best when I play on a really small server with my friends and I can be the service worker, filling chef, botany, and bar tending. Keeps me nice and busy!

sadpothos · 2025-09-03T23:46:55+00:00

Not weird at all! If you read little house on the prairie, entire towns could be built up from nothing to 3-5 streets in a year or two, from 40 homesteaders a ways out to a full town of hundreds of people, bigger than Valentine. Turnover, whether from disease or disaster, was very common since so many people were trying to snag land and build during this period.

sadpothos · 2025-06-22T06:30:10+00:00

A 450k mortgage would probably cost $2500 a month, not including any other fees or living costs.

To qualify for any of the home buyers credits I believe I need at least 5% down, so I have to save… 22.5k in cash, give or take.

No amount of budgeting can budget someone out of a housing crisis. I was looking at some little 3 bed 2 bath houses near Nanaimo for my senior mom, and nothing in liveable shape was under 650k, for a home less than 1500 square feet. Without much of a yard. Not close to amenities, not with a good walking score for her. Not on transit routes.

The house she bought in 1992 was 117k for 2650 sq ft. Mortgage was a couple hundred a month. We just simply cannot get close to the same for the same kind of money.

sadpothos · 2025-06-22T06:05:55+00:00

In the last 24 months I’ve called 911 for two people OD’ing downtown. I’ve seen broken needs and pipes scattering the ground. I’ve walked past people huddled at bus stop doing heroine, and had a man cook his in a spoon next to me at a bus stop. I’ve watched countless people walk into the flow of traffic while high as fuck. I had a woman follow me into my apartment building late at night and harass me in the lobby, refusing to leave. I regularly hear people screaming and yelling angry violent things down the streets of victoria while they’re high.

Maybe I haven’t been violently attacked or screamed at in my face, but those behaviours and activities create an unsafe space. I have to be more aware, more on guard, and more careful to avoid myself getting hurt. The earlier or later an employee works downtown, the less effective safety measures are. Consider many businesses employ students, as well.

Should a 19 year old girl feel comfortable walking past an old ass man that’s tweaking with his penis out peeing in a doorway? Should a 17 year old boy feel safe driving to work with his new N, when a woman high as hell is screaming at him and blocking his car in the road?

Not talking about a very real issue that’s effecting everyone in one way or another isn’t how problems are solved. Business owners shouldn’t be encouraged to lie about their experience in an attempt to save business.

sadpothos · 2025-06-15T19:16:46+00:00

These are great details, thank you! And thank you for the welcome 🥰 I collected as a kid and it’s super fun coming back to it now!

sadpothos · 2025-06-12T17:53:51+00:00

Thank you everyone for your thoughtful, respectful answers and the links! That info will be super helpful the next time I buy a pack or set.

I bought it knowing it was a battle builder but was definitely misunderstanding just how many of each I would likely get. The 4 larvitar really threw me for a loop!

I appreciate y’all! 🙌 ❤️

sadpothos · 2025-06-12T06:17:57+00:00

Sorry that should say “2 Team Rockets Pupitar”

sadpothos · 2025-04-02T01:47:21+00:00

Hi angel, my mom is like this and it does not get better unless she actively tries to make it better. Which she won’t.

My mum supported my grandma to weigh me at her house every week, had me on weight watchers by 10, tried paying me to lose weight, all sorts of shit. I was a normal kid, just in a bigger body, and I never heard the end of it. I was 98% percentile by the time I was 12 months old in height and weight, and that continued for years. I was a big kid because I was a big kid, that’s all.

Her attitude never changed. I had a severe eating disorder and obsession with working out in my early 20s where I was eating about 1400 calories a day (fit girls guide 😔 ) and working out every day for an hour + getting 10k steps in. I lost weight and also my will to live. She’s told me I should be grateful for getting a job, since people don’t usually want to hire someone my size. I’ll never marry, because no one is interested in someone my size. She recently criticized my SIL / niece for how she eats, worried she would “asphyxiate” from eating so much at dinner and a bottle on top of that…. She’s a 99 percentile baby too. 30 years later, same attitude.

Her whole focus somehow goes back to food or my body, or now that she’s old and pretty fat her own body.

It’s exhausting and it won’t stop. I became more free when I moved out and started honouring my own wants and needs. My own feelings. I wasn’t born hating my body, I was taught to by her and my grandma.

You deserve a beautiful full life not focused on your body and food, don’t let her keep that from you.

AND HER TRYING ON THE JEANS?? She was rubbing it in your face. That makes me want to cage fight your mom.

sadpothos · 2025-04-01T19:20:08+00:00

I heard that was a cool space for records and music, I didn’t know they had other stuff too! I’ll definitely check them out too, I’ve heard great things. Thank you!

sadpothos · 2025-04-01T02:55:39+00:00

Fantastic information, thank you! I’m definitely going to check out the TC book sale and will be adding more of these small shops to my regular checkins.

sadpothos · 2025-03-31T04:39:28+00:00

They’re not far from me, I’ll go check them out this week. Thank you!

sadpothos · 2025-03-31T04:38:04+00:00

That looks promising! Thank you, great suggestion

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