Never Accepting a Signing Bonus Ever Again
Sorry guys but I just need to rant. I’m like 7 months into my first job as a new grad and I can’t stand the mill I’m working for. I’ve always knew that this would only be a short-term stay that would set my salary expectations and pushed for a 1-year signing bonus rather than the 2-year they were pushing. I was never under the impression that this company was ideal or used best practices but I figured I could bite my tongue and push through for at least 1 year. Recent changes have really pushed me to a brink though. They’ve moved to central scheduling and it’s fucking hell. They randomly schedule evals in all the open spots in your schedule and you get in trouble if you block them. They don’t have a threshold of patients you may be seeing that day so you can have 15 treats and they’ll still throw multiple evals in your schedule. These evals are not 1-on-1 and they expect you to co-treat with no regard of what either patient is there for or may need. That’s all before we even talk about how this set up has completely eliminated any opportunity to establish my own referral avenues to treat populations of interest. I’m finding myself getting flustered when patients present with setbacks as if that’s not to be expected just because my plate is perpetually full. Everything is all-together so far from what I thought I was signing up for and this next 5 months seem like hell. If I didn’t have a kid, I honestly think I’d be open to just paying the money back and eating it for a better job. I genuinely don’t think I’ll ever sign another signing bonus. I want the ability to leave if I don’t like it somewhere and not have to worry about having to pay for it.