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Originally Posted by LabRat27
I'm sorry ex-MC did that, that's awful.
I know this wasn't really the point of your comment and it's kinda veering off topic, but I'm throwing it out there anyway.
My T has a really long work day because he works in an IOP in the morning and private practice in the evenings. Sometimes when I'm his last client of the day and he gets a cancellation last minute he asks me if I can take the earlier time slot. I guess it's a bit different because I know he's doing it so he can get home earlier, not to accommodate someone else, but I kind of like when it happens because I know he's grateful when I can, and I like him having positive feelings towards me.
I would definitely resent it if I felt like he was taking it for granted though. He has in the past said "I have a cancellation at X time if you'd prefer to come in then" and I respond with "I can do X time if you'd prefer" so that he has to actually acknowledge that he is requesting a favor.
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First, just realized apparently my phone autocorrected to "frolicking schedule" rather than "flexible schedule." Which is rather amusing.
I understand what you mean about wanting your T to have positive feelings about you for taking an earlier slot. If Dr. T asks me if I can change a session time, he generally does say he could still do the original time if needed (and I did that the one time). And he always thanks me for changing. I did say one time that I'd assumed it was for another client, and he said it actually wasn't, was something he had to do earlier that day. So I've tried not to assume...though there was one time where he specifically said there's a client who has a difficult schedule that urgently needed to come in. Then I felt much more pressure to change the time...(I did).
Oh, that made me think of another awkward moment with ex-MC, but in the other direction. We' had a recurring appointment on his schedule. It must have been set up to last a year. When we went to schedule at one point, he said he didn't have it available, that he thought we must have said we couldn't come in that day. We said we hadn't, and he realized what happened. So *while were sitting there*, he called the client he'd scheduled, said he'd made a mistake, and asked them to change, which they did. I'd have much preferred if he'd done that when we weren't sitting right there...