stressed at work

[solobiker]

This is also the same company that was not completly honest with me upon my hire 1 year ago. They never mentioned having to work weekends and in my employee handbook it says that I have 6 holidays off. Well, guess what i do have to work weekends and I dont get any holidays off.

[Deborajen]

I can relate to the "top heavy" frustration. I answer to an administrator who tells me to "do ____ amount of work," but he doesn't have enough practical/hands-on know-how about my work to know if what he's expecting could be done in an hour or a week. Then I supervise employees, sometimes do the same work as they do, plus I have meetings & handle the big issues and a lot of other stuff that comes up that my boss should handle but isn't there to handle because he's "at a meeting" - nobody ever knows where or what for, and the owner physicians never seem too concerned about his absence.

The docs gave the administrator a job and a title, but no job description and no clue of what to expect of him. He can pretty much do no wrong, not that he really has to do anything. The employees I supervise sometimes get frustrated with me because issues take so long to get resolved, but my hands get tied trying to educate and re-educate the manager, plus juggle all the other work.

Well, hang in there. Like you said, you can't control your patient load. Don't let the ba$tard$ get to you. It's "fun" being in the middle but, yeah, at least we have jobs.