So I am a part time CMA at a practice with one provider. This provider has and prefers one full time MA, and she had one full MA for the longest time up until last year when I hired. Shortly after I was hired, so was another MA lets call her Sarah.

At this point 3 MAs were present, one had to go on maternity leave. She was the full (and only) CMA at the practice for two years? So Sarah delightfully covers for the MA going on maternity leave. So now it is just Sarah and I.

**She is responsible for coming in everyday and ideally every hour,** but they give me a few hours and she ends up leaving whenever I come in. So she opens, and I close for hee two days of the week. I work a total of 8 hours EVERY WEEK. I am in college so this schedule worked fine with me. 

To cut to the chase really, Sarah has disrespected my boundaries and refuses to understand that I cannot always cover her shifts. I think I am being taken advantage of actually. She sent me a very passive aggressive message today after she sends me a whole list of days where she needs me to work. However, I recently got hired at a new job, and I told her so- and that because of this, I am not shre if I can cover all those days when she is gone. Additionally, we are open every other Friday- and we are supposed to alternate (so 1 MA one week and switch the next) and for some odd reason she likes to make up an excuse to not work on Fridays. So I have been working all Fridays since March despite her telling me we can “rotate”…. 

This grown woman has the audacity to tell me that I did not need to find another job. Who are you to tell me I cannot seek employment and more hours and more money? Are you joking? You think 8 hours in the summer is tolerable??? I am on break from college by the way. You are the full time MA therefore, you are responsible for your shifts and me covering for you when you cannot come, is a FAVOR. for her and the entire office. But she is pushing it. And guess what- whenever I ask if you can take the shift or if you can stay the whole day instead of me coming in (1 week notice) she makes up some kind of excuse. Ex: I wake up so early and come to the office at 7 and open all these days. I cannot stay the whole day. What!????!! I cannot call off for ONE DAY???!!! I have never missed a single assigned shift nor a day where she needed to be covered.

Please someone tells me they understand my frustration. I am at a loss here. 

Disrespected by another MA