Middle Management Hell - Veterinary Assistant VEG ER for Pets Employee Review

2.0
Oct 28, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay, good benefits, 4 day weekends

Cons

No loyalty to longer-term employees, obnoxious 'rah-rah' corporate culture (that means absolutely nothing to the day-to-day life in the hospital - seriously, it's just as toxic as anywhere else), middle management is completely unequipped to handle a 24/7 ER, and likes to power-trip and punish instead of solve problems. Overall miserable culture

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VEG ER for Pets Response
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Hi there! We appreciate your honest feedback and we are are sorry you have not been feeling supported at VEG. Since most of our locations are new (opened within the past 2 years or so), we've definitely had a good portion of our teams hired pretty recently. We do however, have the majority of "OG VEGgies" still working with us. In fact, many have been promoted to leadership and help train and manage other VEGgies. Some even navigated their way to working at our headquarters and now can provide frontline perspective to our other teams. Our culture is an incredibly important aspect and we have multiple programs that reinforce that. When it comes to tough conversations, we have all of our leadership team go through VEG Academy. This is a training program that gives leaders the tools to provide proper feedback and have the emotional intelligence to deal with different team members in different ways. Emergency is all we do, so we do it best. If you still have current issues that your would like to discuss, please feel free to contact hr@veg.vet and we would love to have it sorted out and help you have the best time working at VEG!

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