AT Duties
Hi all, I work in the secondary setting as a per diem. I’ve been doing a long term agreement with a school that wants to hire me once their full time retires. However, I’ve been noticing now as a per diem they are trying to slip in more and more weird responsibilities and I’m spotting quite a few red flags (coaches warning me about disorganization, leadership problems, etc) . I doubt the full time does them.
They want me to be in charge of washing all of the uniforms. Today they had me wash all of the soccer uniforms while also doing treatment and rehab for the football team. This is on top of all of the coaches just leaving Gatorade filled coolers overnight for me to clean up, expecting every single water bottle and nozzle to be hand scrubbed, and expected me to organize and clean the full times supply closet and whirlpool. I was also told that their athletic nurse may not be going all the registrations and clearances and that they may have the athletic trainer (me) handle all of them for a 400-600 athletic program.
This is my 2nd year, my first year as a certified was at a really problematic school and I left for personal reasons. I’m just afraid I’m jumping from one bad situation to the next. The laundry part was the most jarring to me, as I have never had any preceptors or colleagues be responsible for the kids uniforms, especially at the secondary setting. We are medical professionals, and I’d never imagine another medical professional doing someone else’s laundry and scrubbing floors. Is this crazy or is it just me?
EDIT: I have no issues with cleaning the coolers and jugs, it’s the absolute state that the full time ATC leaves them in that drives me crazy. He knows I come in when he’s not there, and he left standing water in the whirlpool the entire summer and let mold fester in most of the coolers and jugs.
Football has a bad habit of leaving Gatorade filled jugs overnight for me to clean up instead of dumping them. I’m not there every day and when I’m not, the full time doesn’t clean them so they get left for literal days until I come back and have to scrub sugar sludge off of them.