My Worst Job

I applied to the office of the doctor when I saw on the job listing website of my university the available job opportunities. The job description indicated that there was available vacancy for part-time during school learning period and also full time working hours during the summer period. I felt this was the perfect job since I was wanted a full time job to perform during the summer period. Luckily, after one week, I was called for an interview, which I passed and later offered the job.

Working for Long Hours
I was glad to get this job since I wanted extra money for my school fees, so I started preparing myself for the job during the summer. However, when I started working, I came to realize that the job required one to work for 24 hours in a week. I wanted to get enough money to meet my needs such as school fees and other miscellaneous expenses; thus I decided to search for another job. I was also luck to get another one, which I worked for 9 hours a day in every weekend. However, the work was hectic, and it was far away from my hometown, the distance about three hours driving. The doctor could never understand the need for demanding extra hours in the weekend. This is because every time I could request him that I want to travel home earlier, but he could ask me in case I have another significant work at home. I felt nervous the first time the doctor started questioning me because I had already signed a lease on one of the doctor’s apartments, which was near to the place of work. This is because I was called at times by the doctor in order to help him in the office when there were many clients. So the doctor could question me in order to know the reasons, which could make me to leave in a hurry every weekend to home but I always gave him excuses.

Intense Workload and Strict Rules
Although the work was quite well at the beginning of the first week in both places of my work, the second week things started becoming different. The work in the doctor’s office was too much, and this made me work for long hours at times during the week days. The doctor could call me to write reports, arrange the files for patients and even make pay rolls for other employees. On the other hand, the rules in the other job were strict, and the office was quite different from that of the doctor’s office. This is because there were no cell phones in the office and the company never allowed any food in the work place. There were no incentives for working in the organization such as a free lunch or any other special gifts like Christmas or birthday gifts.

Discrimination in the Work Place
Although my co-worker in the doctor’s office told me that employees were given Christmas bonus, there was discrimination in terms of bonuses provision to diverse employees. I was so delighted because the Christmas was near and indeed I was in needy of that money. What made me hate this job is because of the way they employees were treated differently. When I was given my check, I opened it and realized that it had a Christmas bonus of 17 dollars. I was so happy though I did not expect such amount of money because it was better than nothing. After a week, one of my co-workers came to me, and I was curious to know in case she received the Christmas bonus. I could not believe it when she told me that she too received the bonus but thrice the same amount that I received. I could not understand why she received such amount of money and yet we were both doing similar work. Furthermore, I could be overworked at times more than other employees. To make matters worse, I realized that we were only two employees who received little amount of money, but others received more money than the amount that I received.
Moreover, the situation started becoming difficult after I received a new supervisor in the doctor’s office. Unlike the former supervisor who could give me time to rest, the new supervisor was tough. I was always needed in the office during the weekends, and on the same time I had another part time job; thus I could no longer get enough time in the weekend. So I had to quit the second job that I used to work on the weekends since it was hectic and I also needed time to rest. This is because the supervisor overworked up to weekends so I could not be able to handle two jobs. I resigned the second job since the payment was not good when comparing it with that of the doctor’s office. Even though, the rules changed because of the new supervisor, I decided to work hard in order to achieve what I wanted.

Lack of Motivation
However, things continued to be different in the doctor’s office and there was lack of motivation. Instead of working for 24 hours in a week, I was supposed to work for 48 hours double the normal time that I used to work. There were no any other incentives, and I could understand the reasons behind this because this was also the time I expected to get more salary from working many hours. I could not want to quit the job but rather had to preserve since the summer period was about to end. Kearney (201) argues that it crucial for managers to motivate employees in order to enable them to improve their performance level. However, there was no motivation in the work place, but rather the supervisor could kill my morale of working. I never expected to work for more than the normal working hours without getting overtime money. I felt that they were undermining me; thus I left the place without even thinking of going for similar work the next round but rather decided to look for another job in a different place.