I work for a dental temporary agency as an assistant. I go to many different offices-some better than others. Today I worked at one of those “chain” dental places and the attitudes of the people working there were unprofessional. They (including the dentist) talked badly about the patients behind their backs after they left the office and they also do not practice privacy laws as they should. A patient was in the chair and the office manager came in and she and the dentist were discussing their schedule using full names of other patients. The care is atrocious and hygiene practices are questionable.
I do not want to go back there as I have ethics and I can’t believe what i saw. My question is how to tell the temp agency I do not want to go back to that office in a way that I won’t be “slanderous” against the dental practice? I do not want to get into the reasons and I am sure they will question me as to why I do not want to be there. I don’t want to say anything bad about the office that might have repercussions for me in any way. I know the temp agency will ask me to go again as this place is very shorthanded now. How do I get out of this in a professional manner? When they do call me to work, they just ask if I am available tha certain day before saying where the job is and I can’t turn down other work so I have to be truthful about going there. How to handle this?
How to turn down a dental temp job professionally?
Posted on 09 October 2010
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Basically you’ve two options: either tell the agency you don’t want to work at this particular dental practice or when the agency call to ask if you are available, ask where the job is before confirming whether or not you are available.
If the agency won’t tell you where the job is, then you’ll either have to tell them you don’t want to work at that particular office or accept you may get sent there again.
If you are reluctant to cite data protection/lack of professionalism as a reason for not going there, is there any other basis for not going there, eg locality, not on a bus route/difficult parking or did you discover a relative was registered there and you don’t want to involved in a relative’s dental care? You may be better off giving the lack of professionalism as your reason. The agency may well already be aware that there are problems and if you’ve built up a reliable reputation with the agency and you’re only asking not to work at one place, there shouldn’t be any problems.