I’ll use my job as a microcosm for this issue:
So we bill the state for clinical hours. We can only bill for time we spend with clients, obviously we can’t bill the state for our time charting afterwards
There also isn’t nearby enough of us to handle the demand of a neverending slew of clients. So rushing through or not taking one’s time accomplishes nothing. We get no “productivity bonus” that other positions like outpatient counselors can get, no nothing
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So just about every “veteran” of the agency has learned to “time manage” and stretch as much as possible your time spent with clients. Not in the interest of billing for more money but to prevent from having seen 10 clients in a day and now having 10 charts to do, for which you are given no free time, and each can take up to an hour
Everyone who wants to Be All They Can Be, and be a hero who doesn’t somewhat stretch client time, burns out and quits. The system is simply not set up to support them
The idea of having the state micromanaging every minute of time spent with clients to force us into a burn out situation pisses me off. And I AM a hard worker with a good work ethic