Is this the standard for all Private Dental Offices?
I recently got a job as a receptionist at a private dental clinic in New Jersey. The doctor started me out at $18 an hour. Since I’ve been there, she has tasked me with doing sterilization, cleaning rooms, front desk duties, marketing, personal assistant work such as calling her child’s nanny to fix an issue with her internet and a plethora of other things.
The other front desk receptionist she just hired is making $24 an hour. She does have previous experience with dental but we do all the same tasks.
I feel very overwhelmed at work and I’ve never felt this way with a job. We are over staffed according to the doctor.
On top of everything, she is constantly nitpicking the staff and all the micromanaging is too much. Every 15 minutes she will come up and stand behind us while we’re doing our front desk tasks. She will just stare at us and then proceed to ask what we’re doing/working on. She then interrupts what we’re doing to have us work on something entirely different.
Is this the standard for a Dental front desk receptionist? I know we’re all cross trained but doing all of that while only making $18hr is dehumanizing.