Well, after being at what I was beginning to think was my favorite job, I was fired today. It all started yesterday when the lead Dr. who owns the animal hospital blew up at everyone due to the clinic being so dirty. He started pointing out things that had been there way before I had started. He then started pointing out things like ceiling tiles that needed to be replaced because they had some water stains. During this time, I'm thinking to myself "I'm a vet tech, not a carpenter". He ranted for about an hour how everything was in disarray and yelling at me directly sometimes even though I just completed my 4th week and am still learning what needs to be done.
Later on that day, he called me up to his office and explained that I wasn't meeting the expectations needed which caught me off guard. No one had ever told me that I wasn't performing until then. He likes to hire people with no experience so that he can mold them into his type of vet tech but then expects the person to know everyone there is to know about being a vet tech within the matter of weeks and that's just not possible. Hell, vet tech school is usually at least a years worth of education so I don't see how he expects someone to learn it all within such a short amount of time.
So today, I pulled the senior tech aside and asked her if I was let go, how I would get my paycheck. She said that she was glad I came up to her as she was gonna have to talk to me about letting me go anyways. She's starting to do more and more administrative stuff but doesn't like it that much. Apparantly, there have been many many people that have come and gone and I can see why.
There is absolutely no structured form of training at all. I'm all for hands on training but when you are expected to learn literally 30 different procedures all at the same time without hesitation, it becomes frustrating. I had no training classes to work on technique. Whenever an animal would come in, I would try my best and if I couldn't get it, one of the senior techs would do it which would cause some of the doctors to get frustrated at me because it took so long.
So, I may call my local vet and see if she is hiring. If not, I'm just gonna go back to customer service until I can figured out what I'm gonna do. It's quite depressing since I really enjoyed working with animals but with only a months worth of experience, I doubt another vet will hire me