Ah, the 50 cent pay raise. Turns out that it doesn't come without a price. As of Monday, I received about eight more job duties to help me to deserve that extra $20/week. The biggest one: posting checks from insurance companies (and as anyone who has ever had to read a statement from their insurance company can attest, the hardest part is reading the explaination of benefits from the insurance companies...you never actually know how much you are getting paid).
Now, for most of you, "posting checks" means you get on the computer and use whatever accounting software your company uses, and you type in numbers that the computer automatically adds and subtracts for you.
At my office, it means getting out the daily ledger, getting out the receipts with the carbon strip (that's right, I said carbon), and putting each patient's billing card (yeah, those manila cards that my dad used in the 70's and 80's to keep inventory on) underneath the carbon strip so that it will transfer to the daily ledger.
I sat on Monday for SIX hours posting checks (while also trying to greet patients, take money, check people in, and run into the doctor's office every 10 minutes when he called). And the sum total of the checks? $750. That's right. Six hours for $750. Most lawyers make that in 10 minutes.
The actual posting only took about five hours and the other hour was spent with someone who is numerically challenged (me) trying to add up column after column of numbers and trying to get everything to balance out. By the time I finished, I had a pounding headache and found that I had been doing my regular job duties wrong ALL DAY LONG (for which I got called into the doctor's office at the end of the day).
I have no problem with putting in the time. I have no problem with extra job duties. What I do have a problem with is the fact that I have to do them in such a Neanderthal manner. Had I been allowed to use the computer, I could have done three times the work in half the time. I even offered to set up an Excel spreadsheet (because even though I am computer stupid, I can at least do that). They acted like I was crazy for even thinking that it could be done in a more modern manner.
So, here I am, surrounded by cards, carbon and a calculator (that never gives me the sum total that I want)...I feel like I'm stuck in the 70's.
2 comments:
Time to start a revolution...just do the excel thing anyways! Break out of the 30 year prison they have placed you in!
I fear that it would be a waste of time! For a boss that preaches "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People", he is not very encouraging on the proactivity!
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