Staff Support

When you come into a job with a long established group of employees, life can be tough. It can be tougher still when the average turn over of new staff is 90-120 days. No matter how much or how little experience you have in that job or field, you will be viewed as a threat to someone. I think it's very sad, really. It can make for a very tough place to work, which often leads to an even higher turn over rate.

I bring this up for several reasons. In October 2009 I interviewed with a very upscale dermatology office. It was, what I thought, my dream job. I did 2 successful interviews before the leading physician told me I was "far to intelligent and ambitious to work here." I was devastated. Now, I just smile because every 90 days he has an advertisement in the paper for the same position that I was too smart for. I now know that this is not the place I would want to work for, just by how often that ad come up. It speaks volume to what they must be like to work for and work with.

I face the dilemma at my current job that I'm highly over qualified and over educated for my position. Some lesser trained people with bigger titles see me as a threat. Others still, just wonder what I'm doing working here. It huts me that no one asks me things or says things to me directly. Instead, college educated, middle aged women hop on facebook (while on duty) and gossip about me like a bunch of teenagers. I'm the type confront people with my issues or concerns. It's the mature thing to do. Yet they deny it. I have not befriended any of these people on facebook, but I do have a mole that prints up their comments for me. Even confronted with their own printed words they deny.

How are employees like these taken seriously?