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Terrible veterinary practice manager (vent)

I just need to vent about a terrible boss I have. So I'm a veterinary nursing student (I think Americans call them vet techs). I'm on a full-time, unpaid work placement which is mandatory for my degree. I'm working 60 hours a week for free. Which already sucks. It's not my first placement though so I have experience. I get along with the vets and receptionists well and they're all lovely. However the manager at the practice I'm assigned to this time is a HUGE asshole. She only comes into the clinic for a few hours each day but when she's there she does a great job at making everyone miserable. Here's a fun list of stuff she does: Brings her own dogs into the practice. This wouldn't be a problem, lots of people who work in veterinary do this, except she has SIX DOGS. She brings them in everyday…


I just need to vent about a terrible boss I have.

So I'm a veterinary nursing student (I think Americans call them vet techs).

I'm on a full-time, unpaid work placement which is mandatory for my degree. I'm working 60 hours a week for free. Which already sucks. It's not my first placement though so I have experience.

I get along with the vets and receptionists well and they're all lovely. However the manager at the practice I'm assigned to this time is a HUGE asshole.

She only comes into the clinic for a few hours each day but when she's there she does a great job at making everyone miserable.

Here's a fun list of stuff she does:

  1. Brings her own dogs into the practice. This wouldn't be a problem, lots of people who work in veterinary do this, except she has SIX DOGS. She brings them in everyday and leaves them in the kennels all day and expects us to look after them just because she's the manager. Plus they take up valuable space which could go to actual patients. If there's even so much as a stain in their kennels at closing time when she picks them up, she goes apeshit.

  2. Made all 3 of our nurses quit and expects me to fill in for all of them. Yeah you mightve noticed i said that we have zero nurses.

She caused a lot of drama between the practice's nurses by making up rumours about them to each other and treating one of them blatantly nicer than the other two.

This kind of exploded into a huge argument and ended with the practice manager cussing them out and refusing to even talk to any of them at work. Eventually all three nurses just stopped showing up for work and basically told her to kick rocks.

And of course with corporate veterinary practices doing what they do best, she expects me to fill in for all three nurses until they can hire a veterinary nurse who will work for just above minimum wage. So I'm constantly overloaded with work and half the tasks I'm not even technically licensed to do.

  1. Blames us when clients don't pay their bills. Because apparently we're also debt collectors and it's obviously our responsibility to tackle people to the ground and make them pay.

  2. Lets her friends use our prep/consultation rooms to groom their dogs, and they always completely trash the rooms and she expects us to clean up after them. I mean seriously??? They can at least sweep up the mountains of fur.

I hate this manager so much I really hope she quits or gets fired. I just needed to vent lol.

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