Apologies in advance, this one is kind of long.
Some backstory beforehand. I currently work for a very small company in the medical field. I'm not medically trained myself but I do a lot of the background work (more on what I do in a second). Doesn't seem all that bad at first but you know what subreddit this is, it takes a sharp left turn when I have to describe my duties. Try to go through the list and see where the problem might lie.
I currently perform the following tasks:
- Check insurance on possible incoming patients
- Coordinate discharges depending on the reason that the patient leaves us.
- Order equipment for delivery to the patient or pickup after they discharge (A major focus for us is on home care for the elderly)
- order non-prescription supplies (think adult diapers, gloves, etc)
- audit bills from our pharmacies that we're contracted with to make sure nobody gets ripped off (one of the few things I actually enjoy doing because fuck anyone taking advantage of a person through medication)
- Ensure that we're HIPAA compliant. This means I'm making sure forms are properly filled out, records are stored properly, nobody's leaving any form of records anywhere, both physically and digitally, etc.
- Create and update all forms that we have, including consent forms, booklets on what all we do to give to patients or their families, our entire employee handbook, you get the picture.
- Organize all bills and invoices that we receive because the owner doesn't know how to pay bills (?)
- Be the entire IT department. This includes maintaining maintenance on our website and email servers and addressing any issues between computers, printers, phones, basically if it plugs in or has a battery, I maintain it.
- Be on call for non-emergency requests that they can't wait for normal business hours to address.
- Take the blame when they screw something up that might cost us money.
- Deliver Christmas presents to our vendors.
- Deliver food and wine to our “executive team” that the owner definitely isn't using as a form of bribe to get people to work with us /s.
- Deliver caviar to the owner's house a few towns over (I cannot stress enough that this actually happened)
All for the low, low price of 18 dollars per hour.
Now, part of this is definitely my fault. I've struggled with low self-esteem for the majority of my life (spoiler alert: still do, but I'm working on it) so I just kind of went with it thinking I was still getting paid more than I deserve. I hit a breaking point when that last item on the list hit me last year because seriously, what the fuck.
At this point enough was enough. I ended up going and getting some computer certifications and started looking for a new job. Finally, after applying and getting turned down for the better part of a year, I got hired at a major tech company as of last Friday. I don't think I can go into all the benefits because of NDAs and all that but I'll just say that when they told me how much I was making it took every fiber of my being to avoid saying holy shit to the recruiter.
This leads me to my current dilemma. I'm currently torn between paying rent and watching this company burn into the ground after I leave. My plan is to stay through May so I can keep up on my personal bills and everything before I relocate for this new job, but this whole week has been a test on my mental strength because I just want to quit and leave the rats to their sinking ship. I'm sure I'll be fine this next couple months since I made it this far but the temptation is there.
TLDR: Job takes advantage of me to the point that when I got a new job I seriously considered a couple months of homelessness just to make them suffer (I won't, but holy god do I want to)