Training took four months. For no good reason. They string you along with classroom training followed by floor training and shadowing. During all that time, you're still being trained and can't work alone, so you get training hours--working less than ten hours per week the entire time. If they had told me starting out that I would have to work for 4 months with only ten hours per week, I would have noped out then and there. They have no respect for the fact that their new employees actually need to hurry up and get trained to do the job. There were entire weeks in the training period when the class was just told to take the week off and study--which means no money.
Minimum wage for the first 90 days hat starts following your months of classroom training, which are rough days, then $10. Too little pay for the responsibilities given to scribes. It's insulting. We work our rears off for burger flipping money.
I work in an ED. Scribes do not get a break during the typical 9-10 hour shift. Not a single break. We don't get a break for food. We don't get 15 minutes to decompress mid-shift. We get NO break. I have to run to the bathroom and to refill my water bottle. As is, this is unhealthy. I have yet to see a single scribe where I work take a break. We don't get breaks. The physician might eat, but management and trainers tell new scribes that we need to continue working on charts and should not break to eat when the physicians do. It's bull.
Shifts often run over by several hours.
Floor trainers tell you incompatible things, then punish you for doing it one way instead of the other. Low consistency.
Job threat is omnipresent the first few months. They tell you that you are still interviewing for the job and can be fired at any time if your trainers feel that you don't keep up.
