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I work in Ontario, from 9-6.

I have a half hour unpaid lunch.

They apparently don’t give breaks which I get they don’t have to do.

The thing is I’m hourly and paid for only 8 hours.

I’m new - what do I do or how do I bring up the fact that I’m expected to work a half hour for free?

Thank you!

Just started a new job in Ontario with hours 9-6. They give a half hour lunch and two 10 minute breaks. Does this meet ESA criteria? Half hour lunch on 9 hour day seems ridiculous.

I got a job (that I turned down because of the contract) that said in it:

- I need to give 30 days notice to quit
- I would need to pay $200 for a uniform, deducted from my pay and would need a new one every 6 months with a new $200 deducted from my pay then as well
- I need to drive for training about 1hr 15 min each way from where I live for 3 weeks (gas where I live is $1.60/L right now)

The contract suggested I get ILA (Independent Legal Advice) before signing it!

The job was for a medi spa. I looked them up online and the clinic has a 2.6 / 5 rating - low key brutal. Client complaints about errors on injections and facial lobsidedness as well as sales tactics about deposits that were kept (and not included as payment forward services) and things like this.

Job was for a senior medical administrator at … $22 / hr with 10% commission on product sales. I felt lot of red flags at the role e.g. giving a months notice to quit for a $45,000 role seems excessive.

I hope I did the right thing turning it down, I have another offer I’ve excepted for slightly lower pay but less constricted terms. Ultimately I’m hoping to keep searching for something better while working.

Thoughts?

Anyone make this switch? I can’t take the weight gain anymore. How did it go? Right now am on 200mg Abilify Maintena and 20mg Latuda. Thank you!

Anyone make this switch? I can’t take the weight gain anymore. How did it go? Right now am on 200mg Abilify Maintena and 20mg Latuda. Thank you!

This is a vulnerable post so please be gentle; responses like “yeah you have ruined your life” would be redundant and not helpful. Thank you.

So, I ruined my life in entirety.

Unbeknownst to me, I’ve been living with a severe mental illness called schizoaffective disorder for a long time. This means I have symptoms of bipolar 1 disorder & schizophrenia, at the same time.

Something like 50% of people with bipolar attempt suicide at some point. Before being medicated, I was very suicidal and used drugs to self medicate. I’ll get back to that.

So long story short I started having delusions and false memories that someone I met was a former childhood abuse. I sought out info from them. They told me to not contact them. Around this time I lost a good paying job - my symptoms from schizoaffective led to me being fired. I just knew I wanted to die when fired. I went to get one drug to cope and it wasn’t available. I took another drug and it ruined my life. I was addicted to it for 9 months til I quit. By then it was too late. I contacted them a second time. This time I’m arrested again but can’t use mental health courts anymore.

I don’t have a lawyer and can’t afford one. I represent myself in psychosis. It goes horribly as I plead guilty to everything. I get a sentence plus a lifetime ban of weapons (none were involved) because the charge was one of harassment (repeated contact is considered stalking and therefore considered a pseudo violent crime). So now I have a 5 year criminal record plus a weapons ban record which will show up on my criminal record for life.

This is what I’m really hung up on tonight; my record. My career prospects or lack thereof. I was lucky recently and got into a field similar to what I worked in before I got sick (investment firm). But I lost it because I started Ozempic, because the meds for my schizoaffective make me too fat, and then Ozempic made me adhd meds not work. I couldn’t concentrate so I got fired.

I’m searching for work now. Got one job but they wouldn’t take me because of the record. Applying like crazy. What I have going for me is a solid resume/education and I’m a good looking woman, which sometimes I think helps.

If anyone has any advice or consoling things to say on how I didn’t ruin my life I’d appreciate it. This damn severe mental illness wiped me out, basically. Technically I should have been not criminally responsible for the incidences as I wasn’t in my right mind.

Really struggling under the weight of it all right now.

Presently I live with my 71 year old mother in her subsidized co op housing unit. I can’t get housing because of my record. I ruined my credit while manic and had to do a credit proposal as well.

In three years my credit will be good again and my criminal record can be hidden (just the permanent weapons ban will show on it as a judicial order but not say why).

All I can do is stay medicated and hope to stay housed and working. I have a daughter who is my life who I have 50% of the time and whose dad took full custody of her when I was in full blown psychosis the second time and started using. She is reason I stopped as well. Her dad and I have a good relationship now too, and she sees us both equally.

I know all this makes me sound like a God awful person. I’m not. I had goals and dreams like everyone else and still do. It’s just that hope is dissipating rapidly. I think about dying a lot (but I’m not suicidal and don’t have a plan, not to worry).

It’s all so scary.

I had a free consult with a lawyer and he advised me to file an extension to appeal a criminal sentence.

NAL and haven’t filed this before.

I was looking online and it said to first, file to the crown to request their permission before filing in the courts?

Reason for appealing is that at the time of the incidents I was suffering from schizoaffective disorder, which was only discovered 4 weeks post sentencing in the hospital. I am almost 2 years into my 5 years before I can apply to have my record sealed. I would like to appeal to have a conditional discharge; as I have been medication compliant and have completed my probation without further incident.

Does anyone know the form(s) I would file to request an extension to appeal and is this something that would normally go in front of the judge, like would I need to be there as well?

Thank you in advance!

I’ve been a white collar worker all my life. A few years ago I had a severe mental illness pop up and when it was in crisis I was convicted of criminal harassment.

I didn’t have a lawyer and attempted to defend myself, though I should have been diverted or at least taken to the hospital instead.

Now I have this wonderful resume with a criminal record. I’ve been able to “explain” it and obtained the job still before, but I’m wondering: to any hiring managers or HR on here, would it be helpful if someone with a spotless white collar resume and a criminal conviction explained that their mental health impacted it, though it’s since been resolved?

Or

Is there anything a person could genuinely say to have you agree to hire them, knowing what I’ve told you?

I’m not looking to be told I shouldn’t have done it, I was in a state of psychosis and couldn’t control my actions at the time. I’m just looking at the best way forward, from here.

Hi, I’m looking for a criminal lawyer who has experience with mental health, thank you!

I am on 200mg Abilify Maintena shots and gain weight rapidly… I’ve gained make 4lbs in 2 weeks. I watch what I eat and walk for 30-60 minutes a day.

I’ve heard Latuda could cause less weight gain, does anyone know if this is true?

I am going from 300mg Abilify Maintena to 200mg Abilify Maintena because of side effects, tiredness, foggy thinking and weight.

Has anyone done this before? I’m worried about symptoms returning. If you lowered your dose, how did it work out?