You work at Basic Psych (a licensed, for profit organization where a team of therapists work in one building... and patients come in for one on one therapy). The manager decides the workload for each therapist every single day in the form of printed schedules.
All therapists are paid X monthly (based on seniority) REGARDLESS of how many or how few patients they have the sessions with.
Your Manager prints off your work schedule for the next day and then leaves office. The Manager doesn’t work on the next day since it’s their day off.
You walk in and you are horrified at your day’s schedule. A horrendous 8-9 patients back to back. Meanwhile, you find out that many of your colleagues are chilling for the day.
Did the Manager mess up?
Are they singling you out?
What’s going on?
A young ambitious therapist comes to you and says “hey pal, I saw the schedules you’ve got a busy day. I can offer to take some of those patients. If you want, you can call the Manager and tell them I don’t mind helping.”
The Manager is off (and off days are precious).
Do you call the Manager? If so, how would you phrase things?
Or do you “man up” (to avoid appearing like a complainer/slacker/not a team player) and just do the 8-9 patients? What if this type of unfair scheduling becomes regular practice?