Vca Antech Employee Handbook
98 reviews from VCA Antech, Inc. Employees about VCA Antech, Inc. Culture, salaries, benefits, work-life balance, management, job security, and more. Vca animal hospital employee handbook. VCA Antech Inc. Has purchased Pet's Choice Inc. Gaining 46 animalhospitals and about 1,000 new employees. VCA plans to.
Gave my life to this practice and after VCA bought it out they completely destroyed it. Went from $2.3 million/year to less than $1million, with about 1/4 the staff. Payroll is a joke. Where industry average is roughly 23-25%, VCA mandates an average closer to 16-17%! The only good thing is the pay, usually.
But it isn't a guarantee and they are always pressuring both vets and staff constantly to improve sales, sales, sales. They push client satisfaction but give you little tools or talent to achieve it. The people themselves, the staff, etc, work hard and are good, but the corporate environment is NO place for medicine, especially veterinary. Corporate medicine has forced veterinarians to become the highest suicide rate among professionals, has destroyed the publics trust and perception of the veterinary field and talk out of both sides of their mouths.
Sadly, it will not get better but worse. Veterinary medicine in the classic sense of client/patient/vet relationship is dead. Corporate greed wanted the golden egg so badly they've killed the goose and are trying to pilfer its corpse for monetary greed.
One of the worst jobs I've ever had (and I've had a few!). The pay is laughable (you can make more money flipping burgers) but beyond that even- the workload is enormous. The VCA I worked at experienced CONSTANT staffing issues (gee, wonder why?) and management's solution was simply to push the work of 3 people onto whatever employees still remained. Within 5 days of starting, I was left alone to single-handledly manage an emergency room by myself. It's really a painful experience to have multiple serious emergencies presented at the same time- knowing that someone will have to wait because you're the only one working, and that the time both of these animals have left is running up. There simply were not enough employees to keep the front desk appropriately staffed based on volume of business and it was too great a burden for me to look an owner in the eye who desperately needs help and tell them 'please wait.'
At the end of the day, the patients deserved better and so did I. These staffing issues could have been reconciled had management been willing to stick around and support the team rather than clocking out at least ten minutes early everyday (assuming they showed up at all.) Overall, it was a terrible environment that functioned on passing blame around and being unkind to each other. Vicious cycle.
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I still can't believe some of the open hostility between staff members that I witnessed. There was zero camaraderie, zero team-work, and no feeling of 'work-family' whatsoever.
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I had to get out to feel human again!