You HAVE to advocate for your own training, opportunities will rarely be handed to you. Growth and learning opportunities seemed to correlate with how well you participate in non-work-related small talk or brown-nosing. Frequent gossiping about one another and clients, then switching up when the person came back into the treatment area was disheartening and almost a daily occurrence. People would really seem so genuine and friendly to one another and would turn right around and talk negatively about each other when with a different set of “teammates.” Quite catty and uncomfortable even just as a bystander. A select few assistants doing RVT or DVM-only tasks based off favoritism. Some employees nap or play computer games for literally hours of their shift because they’re *too qualified* to have side-work between cases, but very quick to rag on people who’d been working nonstop even in the slow periods. Difficult work environment with too much non-work-related determinants of success.
