VCA reviews

Management is Unorganized and does not care about people. Pay is terrible and no room for raises either

-Do not support employees or care about mental or physical health needs -Will do anything to crush unionization. During my interview, I was asked if I supported unions, which was extremely uncomfortable. -Profit over patient care. At one point I was working in the ICU and we had 19 patients with 2 techs. When I asked for help from management, they told me to give patients to the doctor's assistant who had no medical training and didn't even know how to take vitals. -The management plays favorites even to the detriment of patient and employee safety. One tech would regularly work 24-hour shifts while others were denied chances of picking up overtime shifts. -Hiring team doesn't understand the needs of the roles they are filling. I was hired into surgery with the promise of not having to run anesthesia. On my first day, the team told me they already had scrub techs and specifically needed someone to run anesthesia. -No training process whatsoever. I was pulled into running distance anesthesia by myself when I had never even seen it done before. I was placed in the ICU and not even trained on how to run the O2 kennels. I was put in charge of anesthesia for a patient with a fentanyl CRI and ventilator and never used either. My first ER relief shift, I was scheduled alone for the first 2 hours of the shift and I didn't have any previous ER experience. -Management completely changed 2-3 times in the year and a half I was there. -Pay was good because you didn't get raises. They pay according to how bad they needed techs. I was hired after only 3 years of experience and was making a dollar less than someone who had been there 20 years. If you work at a Mars affiliated hospital, remember your coworkers are your teammates. Stick together. That is the only way to create change.