I (23F) work at a clinic as a patient care coordinator for speech therapy. I mainly help coordinate and answer questions about speech therapy, it’s a field I am very interested in and I want to be a speech therapist in the future. Our office is relatively small, my other colleagues are a front office manager for audiology, a speech therapist, an audiologist, and a 4-year audiology resident. Lately, our clinic has been short staffed as we have three different locations. So, when my front office manager goes on vacation, I am expected to not only do my job, but hers as well. She makes more than I do, I get payed $20, which isn’t terrible. My problem is that my front office manager (FOM) can’t be bothered to find someone in her department (audiology) to help cover the front desk and help with audiology patients when she is gone. Whenever I want the coverage, I have to ask my clinic director for it instead of FOM. I have my own space at the office which is not at the front. And in the past, when there were speech coordinators who worked before me, they were never expected to be by themselves. Someone would come over from the other location (or working remotely) to help cover and do the front office managing. I helped cover for the FOM twice, which means I had to learn everything about audiology, Hearing aids, taking payments, selling Hearing aid accessories, and checking hearing aid insurance benefits, things that were clearly outside of my job description. Not to mention, I’ve only been here for 1 year, whereas my FOM has been here for 10 years. She has more experience than I do. She should find someone with that much experience to help cover. I did all of that and still being paid at $20. I love my job and I love my coworkers very much, but lately, having to do someone else’s job without them asking me if I’m okay with it AND not getting paid well for it, It’s infuriating me. My FOM will be going on vacation next week, and I know that they are expected me to be solo again, but now I am feeling tempted to be like “find someone else cause I am not getting paid enough to do two jobs.” Or something like that. I know I’m bitching and complaining about this but I’ve been feeling really negative lately and I feel like they don’t really care. I am more than happy to explain more in detail if this post wasn’t clear enough. But if anyone has any solid ideas on how to go about this, it would be really helpful.