I need an opinion on this issue, I don't know if it's even an issue I should be worried about.
My SO and I have been together for about 6 months now while I'm off in dental school (1st year of dental school) about 700 miles away. Recently my SO quit her previous job and picked up a new job as a personal assistant for a physician, although it's really the physician's brother she's working for and inadvertently helping out the doctor. The physician's brother is the manager of his office and he makes sure everything runs smoothly. Recently, the brothers were very understaffed and needed a lot of assistance running the office. Now, a little background. She met the physician by shadowing him for nearly a year and when he heard how badly she hated her job, he offered her a new job - to work for him. The job requires her to help out with such things as answering patient's phone calls, returning their phone calls, obtaining authorizations, organizing the office, cleaning the office, and driving either brother around to where they need to go, etc. The doctor has two offices my SO works at, one is the main office which is in an actual medical building, and the other "office" is in an apartment converted to an office the brothers share and live together. Her work schedule is very flexible because she can essentially choose when and how many hours she can work in order to accommodate her schooling (which starts next week 9/19). For this week (9/12 - 9/16) she's working everyday. The reason why she's working is so that she can finance her education due to her money issues.
For her first day of training and the past couple of times following her training, she's been working 8-12 hours each time on a one on one basis with the brother in the apartment. There are a couple of times the physician was there in the apartment as well, but mostly it's just her and the brother. Her first week there she got along with him very well, they joke around, he patted her on the head several times as a joke and for a job well done, and he drew barbed wires on her arm when they got a break. The way I'm viewing this job is that it's a very chill and laid back work environment, even according to her it's work. On her second day at work she also had to drive the brother 35 miles to an RV rental place around her neighborhood for him to pick it up to go on this 3 day thing called Burning Man. A 35 mile drive allows plenty of more time to spend either chatting away about random things or answering patient phone calls. He later offered her to come with him with a few of his friends to this event but she declined due to her finance and thinking her parents wouldn't let her go. She then followed up by saying she's not interested in that type of event. When he came back from the event he was willing to meet up at her place (she lives with her parents) and drive together to the RV place to return it. This whole thing already put me on edge, especially if he's already inviting her to a 3 day event.
Recently she hasn't been answering my texts or phone calls as frequent as she did before. It would take her hours to get back to me. Perhaps she's very busy or something about her changed, I don't know the reason. A couple of days ago she and the brother drove together to her old previous job's office around 8pm (by that time the office is closed and completely deserted and it's just the two of them) to fax some papers. Of course he's there to accompany her and make sure she's safe when she walk back to her car. Again, when I tried to text/ call her, it took over an hour to reply back to me. Last night she had to work very late in the actual office in the building and not the apartment office. Earlier that day they basically drove around together wherever they needed to get somewhere and spent even more time together inside and outside the office. Getting later into the evening since she had to work late at night and was hungry, they had a fancy dinner ($15 - $20 a plate) together which ended sometime around 10pm.
I told her my concerns that I feel very uncomfortable about the whole situation especially about her working one on one in an apartment with the brother however many hours it may be. I just feel this'll leave her vulnerable to build some sort of romantic relationship with this guy especially working this many hours and how well they get along. She can easily vent to him and talk about anything since he's right there and able to listen to her, while I'm 700 miles away. Essentially, I told her if she has to work to support herself then do it, but why not take on a different job instead of this one. She basically told me the benefits (flexible hours and basically getting paid to hangout - this last part is according to me) were too good compared to other jobs out there. In order to add more reassurance for me that nothing will happen she asked me what she could do. I told her I didn't want her working late (past 6pm) because I feel that'll invite reasons to go have dinner, grab a few drinks, let loose, you get the picture. Obviously, she hasn't respected my wish and worked well beyond that time already, stating they are overwhelmed by work when she had to stay late.
I'm trying to be as objective as I possibly can without sounding bias. I basically want to know if I'm being unreasonable and if I should be worried about any of this at all and why.
My SO and I have been together for about 6 months now while I'm off in dental school (1st year of dental school) about 700 miles away. Recently my SO quit her previous job and picked up a new job as a personal assistant for a physician, although it's really the physician's brother she's working for and inadvertently helping out the doctor. The physician's brother is the manager of his office and he makes sure everything runs smoothly. Recently, the brothers were very understaffed and needed a lot of assistance running the office. Now, a little background. She met the physician by shadowing him for nearly a year and when he heard how badly she hated her job, he offered her a new job - to work for him. The job requires her to help out with such things as answering patient's phone calls, returning their phone calls, obtaining authorizations, organizing the office, cleaning the office, and driving either brother around to where they need to go, etc. The doctor has two offices my SO works at, one is the main office which is in an actual medical building, and the other "office" is in an apartment converted to an office the brothers share and live together. Her work schedule is very flexible because she can essentially choose when and how many hours she can work in order to accommodate her schooling (which starts next week 9/19). For this week (9/12 - 9/16) she's working everyday. The reason why she's working is so that she can finance her education due to her money issues.
For her first day of training and the past couple of times following her training, she's been working 8-12 hours each time on a one on one basis with the brother in the apartment. There are a couple of times the physician was there in the apartment as well, but mostly it's just her and the brother. Her first week there she got along with him very well, they joke around, he patted her on the head several times as a joke and for a job well done, and he drew barbed wires on her arm when they got a break. The way I'm viewing this job is that it's a very chill and laid back work environment, even according to her it's work. On her second day at work she also had to drive the brother 35 miles to an RV rental place around her neighborhood for him to pick it up to go on this 3 day thing called Burning Man. A 35 mile drive allows plenty of more time to spend either chatting away about random things or answering patient phone calls. He later offered her to come with him with a few of his friends to this event but she declined due to her finance and thinking her parents wouldn't let her go. She then followed up by saying she's not interested in that type of event. When he came back from the event he was willing to meet up at her place (she lives with her parents) and drive together to the RV place to return it. This whole thing already put me on edge, especially if he's already inviting her to a 3 day event.
Recently she hasn't been answering my texts or phone calls as frequent as she did before. It would take her hours to get back to me. Perhaps she's very busy or something about her changed, I don't know the reason. A couple of days ago she and the brother drove together to her old previous job's office around 8pm (by that time the office is closed and completely deserted and it's just the two of them) to fax some papers. Of course he's there to accompany her and make sure she's safe when she walk back to her car. Again, when I tried to text/ call her, it took over an hour to reply back to me. Last night she had to work very late in the actual office in the building and not the apartment office. Earlier that day they basically drove around together wherever they needed to get somewhere and spent even more time together inside and outside the office. Getting later into the evening since she had to work late at night and was hungry, they had a fancy dinner ($15 - $20 a plate) together which ended sometime around 10pm.
I told her my concerns that I feel very uncomfortable about the whole situation especially about her working one on one in an apartment with the brother however many hours it may be. I just feel this'll leave her vulnerable to build some sort of romantic relationship with this guy especially working this many hours and how well they get along. She can easily vent to him and talk about anything since he's right there and able to listen to her, while I'm 700 miles away. Essentially, I told her if she has to work to support herself then do it, but why not take on a different job instead of this one. She basically told me the benefits (flexible hours and basically getting paid to hangout - this last part is according to me) were too good compared to other jobs out there. In order to add more reassurance for me that nothing will happen she asked me what she could do. I told her I didn't want her working late (past 6pm) because I feel that'll invite reasons to go have dinner, grab a few drinks, let loose, you get the picture. Obviously, she hasn't respected my wish and worked well beyond that time already, stating they are overwhelmed by work when she had to stay late.
I'm trying to be as objective as I possibly can without sounding bias. I basically want to know if I'm being unreasonable and if I should be worried about any of this at all and why.
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