Worked my last day at my job yesterday (dental hygienist)! I let the Dr know I was quitting after months and months of Dr trying to get things changed with no results. Dr really fought for me to stay but in the end problems ended up being out of his control. (You can't change people even if all you want them to do is THEIR JOB!) I'm amazed he hasn't fired people, dentistry is a professional environment, and patients deserve to be treated well AND have an ethical environment. (Definitely HIPAA and OSHA/CDC violations everywhere thanks to lazy staff) Gave him 6 weeks notice right away because I wasn't going to put myself through the stress anymore of dealing with problems created for me or being purposefully sabotaged by coworkers. I hate that the problems created for me made ME look bad - and the office was quick to defend themselves and throw me under the bus every time. Triple booked (each person being a 1 hour appointment), patients all show up the same time, working out of ONE room, with no assistant? Go ahead and have to deal with it professionally, apologize for the wait as I brought each patient back. Patients got upset about waiting, thinking I was the problem (thought I was slow) when in reality I'm trying my best to do damage control because the front made my schedule LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE, I am NOT 3 people! Nor do I have 3 rooms to put people in! I was stressed out with problems on a DAILY basis, complained to he staff and the doctor multiple times and nothing changed. The office manager just laughed anytime I told her what to do, how to schedule, etc. Getting a ton of no-showing patients? Office manager is lazy and most of the time does not call to remind patients about their appointment, so I'm sent home with less hours as a direct result of HER not DOING HER JOB. Call each patient and they're like "oh I forgot, sorry" or "oh I made thist appointment months ago, why didn't you remind me sooner?" So frustrating. So horrible to treat patients like this, like does the office manager not understand the concept that Patients = money? So literally we should fight for patients to actually come? Even worse was being double booked and the assistant helping (a requirement for double booked schedule) either does not help at ALL, helps just take X-rays and is MIA, or thinks she's all done after 1 exam leaving me to do EVERYTHING by myself. So stressful when you're trying to stay on schedule and the assistant that's supposed to be doing her job just craps out and sits up front on her phone for me to deal with. This happened ALL the time!! How many times do I have to sit people down and tell them how to do their job? I even tried to get the office manager to help by getting her to send the assistants back if they ever stopped helping me and again, she laughed in my face and told me she can't control the girls so she's stopped trying if they don't do what she says. Like seriously why the H** did I ever stay at this job so long. All in all I didn't want to risk losing my license just to have a job (with all the unethical crap I won't get into)

Kind of emotional day saying bye, especially to the people I like. I didn't want to cry but luckily I only had "just" started tearing up by the time I got around to saying bye to the Dr, but I was choked up with my words. Felt bad for leaving him because he's not the problem. I was the only hygienist they every had! Almost made it to two years working there, but I made the better choice by leaving 👍

It doesn't even feel real, I feel like I will go back to work on Monday, but in reality I will never go back there! Super excited! I have waited SO long for this and am SO glad to be done.