u/Ok_Bag_997

Texas. Got fired going to file for unemployment but need some advice.

So I recently got fired. Technically this last Tuesday for reasons I feel were out of my control and also the actual incident that got me fired I feel like was not even fair to fire someone over. So I'll explain my situation best I can and hopefully someone can help me out about how I should go about fighting this. If I should claim a medical issue or what have you.

So I'll start by explaining my job. I work as a pool technician. So I drive a company truck all day and I go to customers houses and I service their pool. So I'll explain my first incident at this company and that will kinda explain why im asking if I should approach this from a medical condition standpoint. I will also tell you for context all trucks have inside and exterior dashcams.

Firstly I have no known medical conditions but I have begun to experience these odd situations where it will appear I fall asleep while driving. And actually it's never happened while driving. Only after coming to a stop like at a red light. To be clear I take no drugs or medication and am wondering tho if maybe I have some undiagnosed condition.

So I'll start just by explaining the first incident. I was finishing up my route for the day about to head back to the office. Came to a red-light and stopped. There was a vehicle in front of me I saw it and came to a stop at safe distance. From the video on the dash cam it shows me just sitting there at the red light. Eyes down which is not uncommon for me because often my phone or GPS is lower than dashcam so you cant see my eyes and thats common. The truck started to roll forward to obviously my foot must have come off the break to some degree. The vehicle keeps rolling forward until a rear end occurs. So from my perspective this is what I recall. I remember stopping at the light and at a safe distance from the vehicle in front of me. I remember seeing the vehicle stopped in front of me and being stopped myself. Then it's like everything goes blank. I don't recall anything that happened I just know im suddenly in a rear end with the vehicle in front of me and I thought I was stopped and still at a safe distance. Now like I said I don't take drugs or medication but I have had these experiences where I just sort of blank out and dont remember anything and im assuming my body goes limp cuz of the loss of the pressure on break. If you watch the video tho it really doesnt look like im asleep or anything. Im still upright, I havent slouched over or even started nodding. Nothing. I just look like im sitting there. I know there are medical conditions that can cause similar symptoms correct? And again I have experienced this before while driving but never while moving, only after having come to a complete stop. Well after seeing the video even my bosses looked confused and asked me what was going on or what I was doing. I made an excuse about not feeling well and due to abdominal pain may have accidentally let off on the break. But truth is im not really even sure. When this happens I never really remember anything I feel like I just time traveled. Because I can never myself remember what was going on or how or why I took my foot off break.

So the conclusion of this first incident was I was given a final warning and forced to sign a document saying this won't ever happen again or im fired. At least that's what they told me it said. I was really given the chance to read it. I just took it as a right up so I signed it.

So second incident and one that got me fired. I have one customer who let's me pull up into their driveway and at end of driveway is gate to backyard which leads to pool. I remember pulling into driveway and carefully pulling in and up to gate. I came to a stop before the gate and I guess again accidentally let off break again cuz truck went forward and the bumper tapped the fence/gate. And when I say tap I mean that. It wasnt a hard collision. I pull back and check out gate and vehicle. Its a wooden privacy fence. No damage to fence or vehicle that I can see. Customer and I have good repor so I'm like okay no biggie I'll tell customer about it when I see them next since they weren't home and I wasn't expecting them to be upset because again no damage was done and they were cool and I thought they liked me. I would often speak to them while I worked. They have a driveway camera so if they brought it up I was just gonna tell them yeah sorry pulled too far forward. It is legitimately hard to tell where to stop in that driveway. This was last Friday. I finish my day and go home. Go to work next week and told I was fired for what happened in their driveway. I was a bit surprised and was like yeah I know I pulled a bit to far forward and the bumper tapped the fence but there was no real damage and I was gonna talk to customer about it as soon as I could. Well they didn't allow me to see the video. Not the truck cam or the customer video. They claim there was damage done. Which is def a lie. I took pics of truck and fence and nothing. Not even a scratch on the bumper or dent or what have you. Same goes for fence and gate. I took pics but might have done so on my work phone which I returned when I was fired. Darn it just realized im gonna have to check my personal phone and see if I have pictures.

So my questions are this. How do I go about filing for unemployment? How do I explain to them the accidents and should I be honest about the whole possible medical issue side of things? Should I make the argument that I have been suffering from unknown medical issues and have been trying to see a doctor? I haven't seen one but in hindsight with what's been going on i def should have tried talking to one and telling them what's been going on. Or should I just tell them I just misjudged distance and accidentally tapped the fence/gate but their was no damage done so I shouldn't have been fired. Yesterday after going back to office vic(boss) did make a comment on the video and he claimed that I looked asleep like last time and hit their fence and he also claimed there was damage which im sure there wasnt and also said something about me not immediately reporting what happened all being the reasons for my termination.

For extra clarification though Vic and my other boss would say I looked sleepy/asleep while driving or even just at the office even when i wasnt tired and also from pretty much the time I started Vic was notorious for exaggerating things and even before the first accident had called me up yelling at me making all sorts of claims like I was driving crazy and almost hitting people and also yelled at me saying I was looking at my "phone" which i was cuz that is my GPS and it was on a holder and that's why I was looking at it while driving when I was just driving to my first pool that day and nothing of the sort even happened.

Final clarification I make sure I get proper sleep. I'm not on drugs or medication. I have no known medical issues when I drive I don't speed or drive reckless. There is no real reason for me to be suddenly falling asleep while driving if that is even what is happening. Which from the videos I've seen doesn't look like that to me. So im wondering could this be like a seizure type issue or epilepsy im not aware of or what? How do I fight this and get unemployment and how much should I really say or admit to unemployment?

Sorry I know this was long but I need advice desperately as im not sure how to fight them or if I can and also should I get a lawyer because if it is undiagnosed medical stuff couldn't I go after them since it's not my fault? Idk what do I say to unemployment and what do I do guys? I've never had these issues before.

So Ive tried and failed multiple times to quit 7oh cold turkey and also with SR17018. I think I couldnt get my SR17018 doses right as I am taking very large 7oh doses daily. I take daily about 2,000mg. Ive tried dosing the SR17018 100mg twice a day. Once in the morning and once in the evening because I work full time weekdays and cant take SR17018 at work because Im basically always being watched and even when I did try to take it with me in little baggies the powder would get stuck to the walls of the baggie and Id have to tear the baggies open carefully and lick the walls. Long story short it was hard and a lot got wasted. I have a friend who takes MGM and he has been using SR17018 to try to quit as well. Hes been having more luck than me but he has been taking SR17018 at 150mg three times a day. So maybe I just need to increase my dose and frequency of dosing. I have a small plastic container now for bringing a dose to work so maybe that will work better. I have probably 2 or 3 grams left of SR17018.

The same friend mentioned earlier also gave me 15 8mg suboxone pills. So im considering trying to use the subs to quit this time since my last SR17018 attempts have been a failure.

Im very desperate to get off 7oh because it is destroying me financially and in many other ways. I just want to rip the bandaid off and get clean as fast as possible but also I need to be able to be well enough to still function and work and all that. My friend mentioned something about a suboxone rapid taper. Being the weekend is coming up I was thinking of trying the 7 day suboxone taper I see mentioned on here sometimes. My question is how do I taper with the suboxone if I do go that route? I know I have to worry about precipitated withdrawals and cant take any subs until at least like 12 or 14 hours since my last 7oh dose. But I dont know what to do from there.

So please everyone I'm asking for advice. With what I have what is the best and ideally quickest and pain free way I can get off 7oh? If you suggest I go the suboxone route please explain how I dose and taper the suboxone and how long. Im trying to time it out so I have Saturday and Sunday for my body to adjust to the suboxone before I have to worry about going to work on Monday. My friend said the first couple days will be rough if I do go the sub route. But if I can really do a 7 day suboxone taper and I have enough suboxone to do it and can be off 7oh and the subs in 7 days that sounds like the best route. Then worst case scenario I still have the SR17018 to fall back on.

Anyway please someone let me know should I try the SR17018 again or should I try a suboxone taper? And if so what dose should I take and for how long? How do I do the the 7 day suboxone taper? Advice greatly appreciated. I just want to get off this evil 7oh. Please explain to me how I get off this stuff. Thank you!

I have a 30 gallon tank and I want to set up an entirely natural environment for my endlers as I want to be a preservationist for these amazing fish. I want to breed them colony style and want to set up my tank as close to what they would be living in in nature. Meaning I want the tank to have ideally nothing in it that they wouldn't encounter in their native habitat. I want to allow them to freely breed in the tank and allow the fry to have enough plants and hiding that they can grow up in the tank with the adults. I hear endlers tend not to eat their fry anyway. I've never had a planted tank but I want to have live plants and drift wood and just make it look cool. Maybe some rock formations as well. I want the tank ideally to only have plants that are native to their habitat and that they would live amongst in the wild. Essentially I want to mimick their natural habitat in my tank. Im new to planted tanks and just have a lid with LED lights on it. So because im new to planted tanks I need easy to care for plants that do well in low light and minimal care. My first thoughts are Java Moss and Java Fern but I have no idea if that is native to where endlers are naturally found. So im looking for cool ideas and advice and suggestions on how to setup my tank that would make it look awesome and also be a replica of their natural environment. Ideally I want all the plants to be native to their natural range, but its not necessarily a must. I plan allow them to breed in this tank for preservationist reasons because they are extinct in the wild to my knowledge and pure endlers are very rare. So I want to do my part and breed them and keep them pure preserve the species and give to other hobbyists who will also preserve them and not hybridize them. I wanted sand as my bottom substrate but the tank already is set up with cycled water in it but is barebottom. Is it possible to still get sand for the substrate without removing all the water and how so? So im looking for advice on how I should set up my tank and what species of live plants I should use as well as substrate. I only intend to keep snails or maybe ottos with them to help keep tank clean provided that ideally they are native to endlers natural habitat and wont eat the endler fry. All suggestions are welcome. I want to replicate endler guppies natural habitat in my tank and also want it to look cool so I'm open to all ideas. So yeah guys give me your ideas and let me know what species of plants and tank mates to keep with my endlers that they would live amongst in the wild. Thank you so much. Sorry if my post was somewhat repetitive its late and im tired lol.