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I started my workplace at a dental office for two days on December before the break started at the dental office. I was suppose to shadow, however she wanted me to start working from 7 am - 4 pm. Before I started, she was like base on your experience I will determine your allowance. So I expected some sort of payment, however that was not the case. She told me that it will be a non paid internship at this rate, unless I want to continue for two more weeks from 7 am - 4 pm to see where I stand.
My non paid internship starts a week after January, usually I do not mind about the fact that it is non-paid. I was just disappointed that she didn't tell me earlier because she got me working for nine hours each day, when I had family over that was leaving soon. Also, she is not respectful in terms of her workers. She would expect her workers to do several things, although she assigned everyone the same task. At the end, her workers are trying to do that task when she doesn't want more than one person doing the task. It is really confusing how she does not really assign a task specifically to one person, and just reassign several tasks. On top of that, I found that she was quite rude in everything. She told me to observe the dental hygienist, and being able to help her out. Well, in order for the dental hygienist to help me out, she thought it would be good to train me so that I can actually learn. However, the dentist did not like the fact that I was being trained. Her theory was that I am wasting everyone's time, and the dental hygienist could be doing other things rather than training me. In this case, I was actually utilizing what the dental hygienist taught me to actually save her a lot of time during that nine hours.
The dentist training was not that helpful either, in terms of doing insurance and everything. She trained me in doing insurance for 5 minutes, and I wanted to actually do it on my own too along with her watching me. The thing about that is she thought it was a waste of time if she watches me, so eventually she just left me all alone to do it by myself. It took me a while to catch few mistakes of mine, but I wanted to make sure I am doing everything correctly. So, when I was asking her basic questions she just felt annoyed and gave me several signs of frustration. Everything that she wants me to do, I was making some mistakes due to the fact that I was not trained. I even told her myself that I had no prior experience.
My real question is, should I continue this non paid internship when I already have at least 100 hours of shadowing. Is this non paid internship worth it given the fact that I have to come in to just hate what I do?
My non paid internship starts a week after January, usually I do not mind about the fact that it is non-paid. I was just disappointed that she didn't tell me earlier because she got me working for nine hours each day, when I had family over that was leaving soon. Also, she is not respectful in terms of her workers. She would expect her workers to do several things, although she assigned everyone the same task. At the end, her workers are trying to do that task when she doesn't want more than one person doing the task. It is really confusing how she does not really assign a task specifically to one person, and just reassign several tasks. On top of that, I found that she was quite rude in everything. She told me to observe the dental hygienist, and being able to help her out. Well, in order for the dental hygienist to help me out, she thought it would be good to train me so that I can actually learn. However, the dentist did not like the fact that I was being trained. Her theory was that I am wasting everyone's time, and the dental hygienist could be doing other things rather than training me. In this case, I was actually utilizing what the dental hygienist taught me to actually save her a lot of time during that nine hours.
The dentist training was not that helpful either, in terms of doing insurance and everything. She trained me in doing insurance for 5 minutes, and I wanted to actually do it on my own too along with her watching me. The thing about that is she thought it was a waste of time if she watches me, so eventually she just left me all alone to do it by myself. It took me a while to catch few mistakes of mine, but I wanted to make sure I am doing everything correctly. So, when I was asking her basic questions she just felt annoyed and gave me several signs of frustration. Everything that she wants me to do, I was making some mistakes due to the fact that I was not trained. I even told her myself that I had no prior experience.
My real question is, should I continue this non paid internship when I already have at least 100 hours of shadowing. Is this non paid internship worth it given the fact that I have to come in to just hate what I do?
