u/iWNDRalot_

I work as a MA at an Internal Medicine Primary Care Outpatient clinic in Cambridge. I’ve been a Medical Assistant here for a year in October. I encounter many people from different walks of life. I enjoy what I do very much. But I absolutely fcking hate this place. There’s not structure. Constant disfunction. My manager and operations supervisor are NEVER on site and when they are like once or twice a week, they never leave their office. When my colleagues do actual shit that jeopardize patient-care, they coddle them. When they make habitual mistakes instead of addressing the individual directly, they send general emails. One of my male co-workers is a fcking pervert. He flirts with married and or engaged women. These woman are Physician Assistants, Pharmacist, Resident MDs. He makes the younger female patients’ skin crawl! There was an incident a few weeks back where a patient came to get her labs drawn and HE was in the lab drawing patients that afternoon. The patient saw he was in there and stated “I do not want him to draw me, he makes me uncomfortable!” Other woman in the office have made comments amongst themselves about how creepy he his. This dude is beyond lazy. Doesn’t do the work he’s assigned and we have to pick up his slack and do our work too. And all the managers can say is “You need to work as a team.” It’s so frustrating. I sent an email months ago stating that I felt like I working in a hostile work environment and they completely dismissed me. This dude claims that he was a MA for 6 years but his work ethic is fcking trash!! He never does his work and never knows how to do shit. He’s always on his phone on Facebook and doing “school work” instead of doing patient outreach. God forbid we tell the managers because they don’t listen don’t listen and brush shit off. When he talks to the fellow MAs that are female he talks with this narcissistic, condescending, demeaning tone. I’m at the point where I’m looking for a new job. I can’t work effectively here anymore. And there is now way to grow here and elevate your skill set. I wanna quit so bad. Working here is fcking with my mental! But living in Boston is damn near impossible and I need to keep working to pay my ridiculously high rent and bills. I keep feeling like I cannot afford to stop working to work another gig and start a whole new transition. And that’s what’s keeping me here .. that and because with seniority my hours change. When they become fully staffed I’ll be working 8:00am the earliest which gives me time to take my kids to school. But I hate traveling to Cambridge everyday, leaving is a pain in the ass. I need some genuine advice. I feel stuck. Please give me some encouraging thoughts and ideas.