VCA reviews

The regional directors and upper management are HIGHLY focused on profits .

Pay is a joke. I took a minimum wage job as a veterinary assistant with the promise of a raise/pay differential when I went to overnights, which was my goal. After 2 weeks of "training," I was put on the night shift. It took me 7 months of repeatedly emailing management and trying to get them to meet with me before they gave me the pay I was promised when I signed the new hire paperwork. Training was a joke as well. I was thrown in there to sink or swim. I had no previous veterinary experience and it was overwhelming. A lot of things, I just figured out on my own because no one bothered to/was assigned to instruct me properly or explain why things were done a certain way or what the purpose of anything was. Most of the time when I would ask questions, I would get irritated responses to my lack of knowledge instead of people trying to teach me/help me grow. Doctors would be extremely rude and sometimes even yell at me for not knowing things that I'd never been taught. It was extremely frustrating.