u/THETimTumTune

I just wanted to thank every single one of you in this community for the wealth of resources, stories and information that I've been able to gather from this subreddit, it's been invaluable for my quitting. I've posted a couple times and was mostly met with kindness, generosity and care and it meant the world to me as most people in my life didn't know about my addiction. But anyways, hopefully this will be my last post here.

I was taking 1,000+mg per day for over a year and it nearly ruined my life, relationships with friends, family and my fiance. Finances totally ruined. My whole life revolved around 7. And as much as I loved the feeling, it took WAY more than it gave. And I am so happy to be done with this stuff. And am so ready to recover what this has taken from me.

I cold turkey'd from the 1,000mg and it was a nightmare. Then I relapsed. Then quit again. Then relapsed again. Then quit again. Then it finally stuck and I'm on day 6 with no 7oh in my system whatsoever and I feel pretty good. Been doing therapy, talking a lot about it, still taking kratom powder, but I'm planning on quitting that too soon. But I wanted to thank all of you, once again, for everything you've provided to me and my recovery. I hope you're all doing well and are pushing through this. Thank you guys. This community is amazing.

So, I posted a few days ago regarding having what I'm pretty sure was a heat stroke, SEVERE heat exhaustion at the very least...and guess what??!!!! They fixed it!! Juuust in time for the air conditioning prick to show up today to lecture us and mock us, saying everything was in running order and we were lucky that we don't live in India.

Informing us that we were wasting his time, as he works out of Kansas City and had more important things to be doing. It was just me (AM) and an associate and this AC guy acted like a total fucking prick. Literally laughing in me and my coworkers faces as we explained how people had been sent home, I had suffered what I thought was a heat stroke, alongside customer complaints. I told him I didn't appreciate his attitude and he continued lecturing us and said he has a problem with people who complain about working 8 hours (which we weren't doing) and that he works 70 hours a week.....

Absolutely unbelievable experience. I've worked many jobs in my life and I have never come across someone so cold and malicious as this AC guy. I got him and his company name and intend on calling in a complaint tomorrow. Never in my life have I had someone basically laugh in my face as I was describing how I almost ended up in the hospital due to heat exhaustion.

I (and my other assistant manager) believe that corporate fixed this issue shortly after I called the hotline and made my report, knowing this guy was coming in and unless they did something fast they'd be in trouble. Smdh. This whole situation is actually insane.

So for the past two months I've been (as well as a few others) suffering from heat exhaustion from the conditions of the store. I have had heat exhaustion and was sent home on one occasion due to being ill. Last Saturday things hit a fever pitch and after my shift was over I had a heat stroke.

It was one of the hottest days of the summer and throughout my shift I suffered greatly from heat exhaustion. I (alone) ran the main register all night as well as throwing freight during this shift.

Once I got off of work I became confused, started throwing up, had slurred and delayed speech, was physically and mentally incredibly weak, I got a heat rash all over my face that lasted two days, was dehydrated, and it was solely because of the conditions of that building that we have been working in. We've been told multiple times, by the SM, that there is nothing anyone can do unless the temp. in our store reaches 85 degrees or over, yet we have closed one time because the store's thermometer read 80 degrees.

That was the one and only time ANYTHING has been done. I am at my wits end....I've reported this to Integrity Matters and today I sent an email to HR.

Hoping that this will send up some red flags and someone will turn our air on, even just a bit higher.

This is my second time trying to quit cold turkey as of last Sunday and I've failed again. 😞 The first time I wasn't as dedicated as this time. Went through the 3 days/nights of terrible physical withdrawals and after night 3 I broke and bought more. This is especially rough because I'm living with my girlfriend and bills are piling up and I'm not helping as much as I could. She doesn't know I've slipped up and she would be livid if she knew. I don't know what to do.....I have a smoke shop a block away from my home, and my job provides me with DailyPay services, which makes it nearly impossible to utilize/take advantage of. What do I do? Go to a rehab? Give her my debit card and have her watch over every purchase I make? I'm at a loss and I want this to be over so badly.

For context, I've been using upwards of 1,000mg per day for a year and a half. I also live in Kansas which is banning not only 7 but all kratom products as of the 1st of next month.

Been taking 100's of mgs every day for a year and a half. Setup a two week taper plan and it's been nearly impossible to follow, although I am fairly confident that this time this is it. But my tolerance has gone up since I got a raise, been driving an hour every day to a vape shop and spending 40-60 dollars a day. Got paid today and it's completely gone. I have nothing for tomorrow, even though I bought some for tomorrow, but I can't fucking control myself and I took it all.

I'm going to cut my dosage down after tomorrow when I have money again, as I use DailyPay and I'll be kinda forced to cut down a bit. I've set a non negotiable date for the 13th of this month and I am so done with this crap guys. I tried quitting cold turkey five months ago and failed miserably, but this time feels different. Any support, help or advice would be appreciated, as the only person who I can talk about this with is my partner. I'm so angry with myself. This stuff has taken so much from me. I'm so beyond done.

I was "officially" promoted by the SM on the 26th of last month. It's now the 13th of the next month and WorkDay still hasn't updated. I'm still getting paid $9.00 an hour, yet I'm working as an active manager. Doing managerial duties, training etc. The SM basically has said multiple times that there's nothing that she can do about it, and to get in touch with the DM, which I have. About a week and a half ago I went into the store knowing the DM would be there and he sat me and the SM in the office and explained that the reason things haven't went forward was because it was done on the wrong day, so it wouldn't go through the system until the 10th of this month. I emailed the DM that day and he said "It goes live today, should reflect within 24-48 hours, if we don't see it by Tuesday afternoon I can go in and do escalation." Well Tuesday came and went without any updates, so I emailed him again after the afternoon letting him know nothing has happened.....no response.

Emailed him one last time last night around 8pm explaining my frustrations that I have been working as manager for over two weeks without the correct pay. He explained when we sat down that day that there would be back pay as well once WorkDay is finally updated.

I am beyond frustrated. Its now Wednesday morning and I still haven't heard back from him.

Not sure what to do at this point. But this doesn't feel right. Last night was insanely busy and I worked on main as a manager, did many managerial duties on and off register (computer system has me as a manager), as well as being trained at the end of the shift for deposit.

So I've been promoted to manager and as of the 26th of the last month, it finally went through the WorkDay system. When should I expect to start getting paid the new wages?? Also where do I go to see what my current pay is??? I've heard that it can take up to two pay cycles for the new wages to hit, but was just wondering if anyone knew for sure? Very much looking forward to the extra couple bucks and am super happy about the promotion, but have been feeling wary about the pay, as I've already (somewhat) started the training as manager and don't want to be doing manager duties unless I'm getting paid the right pay for it.