I spent 20+yrs working basically every FOH role in a restaurant/bar/customer service setting. When COVID shut downs were first a thing & the only real career I had ever known was no longer viable I invested $16k in a trade training program for veterinary nursing. I thought i would find my future. I would find a career where I really felt I was doing something good. I was going to leave behind the partying, abusive, addicting lifestyle that is food & beverage & contribute positively to the world around me. (I realize that isn't all f&b jobs but 90% of the ones I've had)
I completed my program in June & got hired immediately with the vet's office that I did my externship with….
I have never worked in a more toxic, dysfunctional, poorly managed environment. If this clinic was an insane asylum, the patients/inmates are running the show.
Don't get me wrong. I LOVE the actual job. I LOVE helping the clients, more specifically their animals. It makes me so happy.
But this clinic. These managers & the shit they let other people get away with is fucking outrageous & has all but ruined this field for me. Their promise to clients for a certain level of quality care is not at all being met behind closed doors & I can't deal with it.
I thought I was joining a field with passionate, like minded individuals who would be adult & professional.
I gave my notice at this clinic 2 weeks ago (moving home for family) & promised them until end of January 2023. But the place is so unprofessional I amended my end date to mid December. I just can't do it anymore.