Modern Animal reviews

- highly toxic office environment (this was mentioned by another reviewer, can confirm its true) filled with gaslighting, manipulation, and string pulling from behind the scenes - volatile leadership team that acts on emotions more often than facts - extreme lack of trust from senior leadership team, trickling down to employees - lack of transparency around company policies like PTO, pay, benefits for remote/hyrbid employees - support team members are often doing the work of 2-3 other roles that org did not want to back fill - Junior Senior Leadership Team/ Junior VPs who are making decisions that ultimately cause a lot of mismanagement, double work, ever-changing fires. - high bias in promotion process. those who promoted into higher level roles are typically favorited by senior-leaders, and are promoted more quickly with better compensation and less push back. Those who are not, are often denied a justified promotion/scope and still obtain additional job duties when someone quits. - little work-life balance, constant fires that are created/poked at by senior leaders the office side of the business was a web it took me months to untangle from, with the damage that was done to my mental health. I hope that those who work in the vet practices are not experiencing the same, that would break my heart.

Corporate side of business - culture is not the same as what they say it is. It is rooted in fear of failure, blame, gaslighting, manipulation, and in equipped leadership team as well as leaders promoted into manager, director, and even VP roles that aren't experienced enough or prepared to lead or make they key decisions needed. This has resulted in multiple "layoffs " in a few short years (some disguised as a voluntary opportunity to lay yourself off, or even very intentional and blatant performance management designed to pressure those they want out to quit.) The voluntary layoffs were coupled with pressure to lay yourself off sighting that if not enough people lay themselves off, then they would lay you off and it would come with less severance, time, etc. - extremely reactive leaders, who continuously change directions and leave others out of key information or decisions, and manage chaotically causing a lot of stress, fear, and re-work. -organization scaled too quickly, so now it has gone back to very primitive structure vs. the robust structure and scale we moved to at one point (elimination of departments, roles, closure of clinics I don't regret my time there because I learned a lot and know what to look out for in a future employer. Though I say that, I truly hope they can turn it around and succeed!