Pros
The interactions with the animals and discount on your pets care are the only perks to this job. I love most of my coworkers but this positive feature is in spite of the horrific conditions given to us by VCA.
Cons
1. No room for growth due to awful pay-company hires employees in at completely unreasonable rates and they cannot move ahead or transfer to a different hospital because rate would be even lower. Management knows that there is an issue with employees being compensated so little but chooses to hire and keep employees uninformed on this topic until they feel stuck. 2. Short staffed until the end-Because company pays so little and employees are so underappreciated, we NEVER have enough staff. 3. Management doe NOT care-When an employee voices concerns about ongoing issues that multiple employees have addresses, upper management says they have no idea that these issues are present and to continue working hard and maybe we will be rewarded for this (however, see first topic). 4. Corporate dribble-Instead of addressing issues that most employees are very concerned with: pay, staffing, room for growth, the lovely corporate workers (who no one has any idea what they actually do) push that "we are the experience" and we need to power through the difficult times to make it a pleasant environment for clients and employees. In this wonderful meeting, we also were informed the company made several large donations to charities (which is great) but you should probably make sure that the employees who are taking care of people's beloved animal lives are being payed enough to compensate for the ridiculous circumstances of being yelled at, cussed out, under-payed, and constantly injured on the job.
