For reference, I work as an EMT/security guard at a residential complex. (Please don’t thank me or anything it’s not like that.) This is a really cushy job, and the pay and benefits are great. The work is largely routine, with the occasional real emergency being easily managed thanks to the resources we have. The problem is the other people.
Management has made it clear that I have to take orders from every other person on the team. That would be fine, except they are abusive of their seniority. Each week we are assigned tasks, and every day they use their seniority to order me to stay at our office while they joyride the golf carts. I can’t do my work, and they are blaming me for their work not getting done either.
They actively use any tiny mistake or stroke of bad luck to build doubt in the eyes of management as to my ability to practice medicine. Having a partner on scene listen for a blood pressure when you just can’t hear it is normal in the ambulance. But now everyone’s questioning whether I can do the job despite prior experience.
I feel like quitting, but I have to keep this job. My bad luck has seen the ambulance company (Inter-facility) I worked at implode, followed by a string of jobs that were genuinely abusive. I am burned out and out of options. Whether I like it or not, this is where I’m staying. There is no retreat.
How do you guys do it when you need to make rent or when you have a job history of short stretches with companies? How do you deal with abusive bosses and co-workers? How do you deal with HR that lies to you to protect the company?