veterinary assistant

veterinary receptionist

Barker-Animal-Hospital

A typical work day can either be fully booked by 15 minute appointments that don’t work for fear free. Or you can be sent home early because it’s empty. 
Management is a nightmare. They will belittle and gaslight you daily
The team is the only great part. They somehow have a deeply caring team
Hardest part of the job is showing up every day
Enjoyable part is again, the staff. But they are trauma bonded. 
There is no accountability for anyone. 
If you value yourself at all, look elsewhere. 

Director nearly impossible to work with. Has a very condescending and “nobody can ever do anything right” mindset. Never felt valued, heard, or appreciated.  Skill sets are not well utilized, a lot of down time for a lot of busy work. Get sent home early very often due to lack of work that needs to be done. High turnover rate, not much care about why or how to improve it. Lots of finger pointing and not much accountability. Trying to grow and thrive in the field while working here was nearly impossible due to the toxicity. 

Favoritism is a thing here. Management turns a blind eye to laziness. Claims to hold people accountable but they do not. They micromanage everything. Claim 35-40 hours a week, lie. They are not busy and constantly send people home. So you don’t make what you should. A few good team members but thats it. Some team members are good at being busy when you need help, but expect you to drop everything for them. Stomp snd huff if you ask for help yet management does nothing but gaslight you when you bring it up to them. 

Practice is pretty fast-paced, but you definitely learn a lot of valuable applicable skills for a future in veterinary medicine, if that's what you choose to pursue. It can be pretty demanding, even as an assistant, every staff member has a job on top of another job to do , which can be stressful, but the staff there are willing to lend a hand if you feel like you're struggling. 

The Fear Free practice was a great experience for patients, and the facility is very nice; however, the poor work culture and management made for an awful experience. If you put in a two week notice don’t expect to work it and have another job lined up. I wouldn’t recommend for anyone to work there. 

Cross training, work life balance, no weekends, fast paced, annual increases encourages professional development. Fair, reliable and helpful management/leadership team

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