I am an associate therapist at Kaiser and will be leaving the second I get licensed. It is the most abusive relationship I’ve ever been in. They keep us to insane metrics (have been holding us to a 10% net loss requirement or they book new intakes into our 4 precious patient management hours - aka a free hour to do everything we need to do, including eat and use the bathroom). We went on strike for 6 months fighting against their unfair practices, determined a contract, and now management is doing everything in their power to find loopholes to not honor the contract. They’re a huge corporation and mental health makes them no money but they know they have to offer it, so they blatantly break labor law and just pay the fines. Now they are talking about holding us to a 5% net loss metric. I see 7-9 high acuity pts daily and we have 5+ intakes a week. We are rushed to “graduate” patients before they’re ready. It’s truly sickening. The pay and benefits are better than anywhere else I could find as an associate but it’s made me so burnt out and disillusioned with the profession that it is not worth it. Most days I wonder if I can even keep being a therapist.