To keep it short and simple: I used to work at a vet clinic. Key word used to because as of tonight I am officially unemployed.
After working at the clinic for two years I’d finally had enough of the harassment and horrible management. I was regularly disciplined in front of other employees, sometimes by being screamed at, or other times my mistakes were written on a white board for all to see. Mistakes were anything as small as forgetting to move a post-it note to a new page in a chart, or using “too much paper”.
My “office manager” has made comments to me over the years such as “you look homeless”, “you need to get thicker skin if you want to work here” “why are you so bad at your job” (even though she trained me, haha)
I started to accept this type of work environment as normal, and was truly convinced I was just overly sensitive. I started having panic attacks Everytime I would hear my manager come down the hall, literally just awaiting whatever it was I was going to be reprimanded about this time.
After all is said and done, I can’t help but feel bad, as I gave them absolutely no notice that I was leaving, I simply left like the wind.
If this post is worth anything, I just hope it helps others to realize that working in a toxic workplace is not NORMAL, and you deserve to be treated with respect.
Thank you for reading.