So I was hired for a job as a medical scribe back in September. Basically we follow the provider during their appointments and fill in the chart for them (within reason) while they work with the patient. Being a job that requires some technical knowledge of medical charting and medical jargon it’s to be expected that they have a fairly extensive training period. I made it through all the class room training around the beginning of November, including passing a ‘final exam’ that was comprehensive. They’ve given me the uniform scrubs and the clinic we’re contracted to work with has given me a badge for access. Since then they have yet to schedule me for the final stage of training, floor training. Basically 6 weeks no hours of work. Luckily I had already been on unemployment anyway after running out of hours working as a temporary employee at the University of Washington back in July.
So I gave them until Thanksgiving to schedule me and then asked if I could find temporary work to fill in the gap. They agreed. I contacted the UW the Monday after Thanksgiving since my yearly hours renewed in December. They placed me almost immediately in a project (application processor) that’s slated to last until mid February (the time they need to start sending out admissions decisions).
About a week into this temp job my other employer tells me I’m scheduled to start training the week of December 18th, with a gap the week of Christmas due to the provider I was training with taking vacation. After a day or two of procrastinating I informed the temp job I was giving my notice. We had a day off because the staff training us had an all day meeting they needed to attend. Since we were still training there they ended my assignment immediately. I get an email later in the afternoon from my original employer saying that things ‘didn’t work out’ for me to be scheduled after all. I immediately called the temp job, begged to keep the assignment, and thankfully the supervisor was gracious enough to let me come back the next day (in other words I didn’t miss any days with them). I’m really pretty happy with the work I’m doing at this temp job and I’m hoping it leads to something else more permanent. Then again I had hoped that with my last temp job too, and it did not.
I guess the advice I need about what to do when the other job finally does contact me about training. Besides this long gap of no work there’s been some other ‘red flags.’ Including them telling me I’d be working full time during the initial interview but then saying it’s only part time during our first post interview meeting. They also required us to make a verbal agreement to working for them for two years part time rather than one year full time. I also had to get a chest X-ray at my own cost when their preemployment blood screening showed I had TB, when I’ve never had symptoms and previous skin tests less than a year before had been negative. They failed to tell me prior to having a training the clinical site and told me not to come back until I was cleared. They could have handled this during the prior three weeks of ‘virtual’ training when I wasn’t visiting the clinic. I realize some of this is out of their hands, since they don’t have a say in the hours of the providers that agree to take on scribes, but it’s all felt very poorly managed in general. I was excited initially to be a scribe but I’m leery now of continuing with the company. There’s also the fact that the temp job is paying me much better than I’m expecting to get as a scribe, although we don’t get benefits due to the fixed duration nature of the assignment.
So what do you guys think I should do?
So I gave them until Thanksgiving to schedule me and then asked if I could find temporary work to fill in the gap. They agreed. I contacted the UW the Monday after Thanksgiving since my yearly hours renewed in December. They placed me almost immediately in a project (application processor) that’s slated to last until mid February (the time they need to start sending out admissions decisions).
About a week into this temp job my other employer tells me I’m scheduled to start training the week of December 18th, with a gap the week of Christmas due to the provider I was training with taking vacation. After a day or two of procrastinating I informed the temp job I was giving my notice. We had a day off because the staff training us had an all day meeting they needed to attend. Since we were still training there they ended my assignment immediately. I get an email later in the afternoon from my original employer saying that things ‘didn’t work out’ for me to be scheduled after all. I immediately called the temp job, begged to keep the assignment, and thankfully the supervisor was gracious enough to let me come back the next day (in other words I didn’t miss any days with them). I’m really pretty happy with the work I’m doing at this temp job and I’m hoping it leads to something else more permanent. Then again I had hoped that with my last temp job too, and it did not.
I guess the advice I need about what to do when the other job finally does contact me about training. Besides this long gap of no work there’s been some other ‘red flags.’ Including them telling me I’d be working full time during the initial interview but then saying it’s only part time during our first post interview meeting. They also required us to make a verbal agreement to working for them for two years part time rather than one year full time. I also had to get a chest X-ray at my own cost when their preemployment blood screening showed I had TB, when I’ve never had symptoms and previous skin tests less than a year before had been negative. They failed to tell me prior to having a training the clinical site and told me not to come back until I was cleared. They could have handled this during the prior three weeks of ‘virtual’ training when I wasn’t visiting the clinic. I realize some of this is out of their hands, since they don’t have a say in the hours of the providers that agree to take on scribes, but it’s all felt very poorly managed in general. I was excited initially to be a scribe but I’m leery now of continuing with the company. There’s also the fact that the temp job is paying me much better than I’m expecting to get as a scribe, although we don’t get benefits due to the fixed duration nature of the assignment.
So what do you guys think I should do?
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