Re: Vet Tech Journals: I saw it coming....

On Sep 24, 3:49 pm, "MaryL" <stanco...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Sep 24, 12:57 pm, "Christina Websell"



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Mischief wrote:
....but it didn't make anything easier.

Business has been slow, enough said. When I'm at work, there's hardly
anything to do. When the supervisor himself is walking or standing
around that's not a good sign.

Then on Saturday I got a call saying that it was very dead at work and
not to come in, and they would pay me for half my shift. No one has
ever done that.

Then yesterday when I went to clock out, my time card was missing. I
was looking for it when my supervisor suddenly came from the manager's
office with it in his hand. I got a really bad feeling.

And sure enough, I got a call from the manager this morning. "As you
know in the state of california an employer has a right to terminate
any employee at will. The company is going through some changes and
we are going to exercise that right." When i tried to find out the
real reason, the manager sounded a little nervous and just said she
didn't feel comfortable going into the details.

I am so sorry you've lost yet another vet tech job. There must be a
reason.
Have you any idea why?
Are you difficult to work with, do you have an attitude?
I'd want to know why they weren't "comfortable going into the details" Why
not? Press them on this. They have to tell you, surely, don't they?

Tweed

I don't blame you for not realizing how bad things are jobwise in USA
due to the
economy.....people are just not taking their pets to vets office for
needed routine
and even medical care. They are not eating out much *at all*! (I have
relatives here
who are in restaurant busines and even the musician relatives are
having most of
their paying gigs in the area cancelled because people can't afford to
go to concerts
and entertainment that isn't free. Vets here are hurting for business
and *going whatever
chapter you do for business bankruptcy*. There is, as she posted, not
much for the
techs to do and vets are making no profit so can't make payroll for
employees of theirs.
I know, also,for a fact, that the state she lives in is "right to
work" state which certain
businesses are trying to shove on CO masking it by the *name* as a law
that doesn't
require workers to join unions. What it really is is a law (FL is like
this too) that allows
employers to hire and fire *at will* meaning to answer your query that
they *need * NO
reason nor explanation for layng off or firing any employee. That's
just the way it is in
those states. I fully understand that such goings-on as this are
probably foreign to your
knowledge of employment practices. .

- - - - - - - - - - - - -
Well, they are reasonable questions and something that Kristi might want to
consider.  She has now lost a whole series of vet tech jobs, more than what
could be attributed to the economy.  She has even mentioned some incidents
in the past where it seems clear that there were personality conflicts.  I
am not trying to be mean about this, but it really does seem that she needs
to probe deeply into what has been happening and try to come up with some
possible reasons.  Does she have an attitude, as Tweed said?  This could be
something that she does that annoys others, or it could be that others act
first and she reacts too quickly.  But there is usually some reason when
someone loses a series of jobs, over and over again and always after a
fairly brief tenure.  It would be a shame to change occupations after all
the work it took to become certified, but that may be something she needs to
evaluate.

MaryL

I am on and off here and RL rules my thoughts and actions as a rule. I
don't
read everything here and obviously have missed many of the job losses
you
cite. OTOH she lives in a 'burb of L.A. and vets and jobs would be
more numerous
than say, here. Your telling point AFAIC is "after a fairly brief
tenure". My medical
type work did not require me to work with or around groups of my own
peers in
radiology....just produce perfect results (technical) of what I was
hired to do...not
get along with others too much..and I am not the soul of camaraderie
at best, LOL.
I cede to your outlook on this vet tech job loss continuation. Makes
sense.
.

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