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im so tired of this life. i want to be a roomba. i want knives taped to me. and i want to be set loose.

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Most commonly used phrase at work

“I need your booty hole please”

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Assistant R jokingly offered Lu the bottle of electrolyte solution… and she drank from it quite happily *facepalm*

I have the world’s weirdest hound dog, I swear!

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I work at a dog hotel. You can either have your dog stay overnight in the kennel or just for the day in daycare. Our front desk, meaning you can check your dog in or out, opens at 7am monday-friday. The kennel staff gets there at 6am to take care of the boarding dogs. I get so pissed when it is 6:30am, all the lights are off, and the doors are locked but there is that one asshole who is trying to open the doors because they need to drop their dog off now or they’ll be late to work. Its like dude we open at 7. We have since the beginning of the earth. We will never let you in. Fuck off.

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reception is trying to kill me, personally

vet clinic anon back again with some more bullshit our dumbass receptionists keep pulling. so as of today (5/29), we’ve passed memorial day weekend. that was a hell of a holiday, and we were at full capacity. (400+ dogs, y'all. we’re a big place.) and of course, reception had to do everything they could to make the weekend harder. here is a list of just what happened with me, not including things that could have happened with my coworkers (sorry for length, i just really gotta vent):

if an animal comes in with food, their cage card needs a green sticker. that tells us in the kennel not to use our food, but the owner’s. we shouldn’t be putting green stickers (and running out of them on our end) on every other card we bring in bc you forgot. y'all have been doing this for years. PUT. YOUR. STICKERS. ON.

if you call for an animal to go home, give me more than sixty seconds to bring it to the lobby. the clinic and the kennel are two different buildings, and i have a mental checklist of things i have to go through before i can head your way. i have to check for food, medication, and personal items. i also have to collect it all before i take the dog out bc no one wants to wait on me making two trips between buildings. and this goes DOUBLE for dogs boarding in the annex, which is on the other side of the property from the clinic.

and on top of that, don’t just call the dog again without checking the swinging door first. there’s a window there and i KNOW you can see me, because i can see you. check that window first before you call bc if you make a call for that dog right as i’m outside, i WILL make you look stupid by walking the dog out while you’re on intercom, and waiting for you to finish to call the owner over. do not test me.

if it’s a holiday and we have hundreds of dogs here, TELL ME THEIR LOCATION WHEN YOU CALL FOR THEM TO GO HOME. we make y'all a fucking list for a reason. otherwise, my happy ass is taking 15 minutes looking all over the place for Rocky Something-Or-Other because you couldn’t be arsed to tell me, “hey, he’s in the annex.”

if one of the kennel staff sees you pull a patient’s folder and tells you not to put it up because she’s going to get it, don’t put the goddamn folder up. my coworker said she would be bringing this cat up for you, and your dumb ass put the folder up and called for it anyways, which meant i was looking for this cat for 20 minutes instead of helping with other calls. and yes, i told my manager about this, so someone better have gotten chewed out bc i was pissed.

USE. YOUR. BITE. STICKERS. i am so, so tired of finding out that a dog wants to chow down on my digits by picking it up or approaching it with a leash rather than having that sticker on there so i know to go slow. thanks, assholes!! not like i literally need to use my hands to do my job or anything.

WRITE DOWN A CAT’S CARRIER DESCRIPTION. we have so many carriers here, and while they do have their cage cards attached, i don’t want to have to look at every single one just to find it. i want to know the color(s) so i can limit my search and get this cat out faster. y'all are supposed to be the ones doing this.

WE DON’T DO DAYCARE DURING HOLIDAYS. WE DON’T DO DOGGY DAYCARE DURING HOLIDAYS. WHY ARE YOU CALLING FOR A DAYCARE PICKUP. WE DON’T DO THEM DURING HOLIDAYS.

and on that note, why in the absolute shit did you sign a dog up for daycare who is DEAF and BLIND? why the fUCK–

diabetics don’t get daycare either. they can dayboard in the clinic so techs know to watch them and make sure they have water. 

and aggressive dogs!! dog-aggros don’t get daycare either because they are DOG. AGGRESSIVE. we’re trying to prevent fights, not encourage them!! SCREEN YOUR DAYCARE PARTICIPANTS CORRECTLY.

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Food Issue

Ok, so at my office we don’t have the most cooperative, friendly, supportive community. 

A couple months ago we had run out of Senior Maint dog food, and there were two dogs at our office that ate it, but only enough to make food for one. I had made food for one of them, mistakenly not noticing one doctor’s note in red pen beside it saying the dog would be getting W/D food for two days. I first checked the side room where we keep animal’s personal belongings and then the store room that held our supply of any prescription diets we carried, asked a Tech, and was directed to ask the office manager, Andrea about it. I walked into the office, where her and a couple of the doctors at our office were seated. I inquired, mistakenly about if we had any “large breed senior maint” food, as I had a lack of words for what I was looking for and could only go off labels in the store room at the forefront of my mind. I was met with one of the doctors, Maxine, sounding very upset. “They don’t get large breed senior” She elaborated, a sour tone hitting at my chest. “And Donnie isn’t getting that, I made a note on his chart” “I didn’t see a note I’m sorry” but Her words struck hard. It wasn’t what she said, it was her tone of voice and the way she looked at me, and it made me want to cry. I hate making mistakes. I rarely ever do. But whenever I have, I take it deep to the heart. And being berated doesn’t help. The manager was silent, allowed the way in which the doctor spoke to me, as did the other doctor/owner. 

When all was said, I went back to take the mistakenly placed food from the dog’s cage. He hadn’t even touched the food. ( And he proceeded to not eat for a week or so after that ) I wanted so bad to just shut myself in the store room, or in the bathroom, and just cry. This hadn’t been the first time I had been spoken down to. 

A couple weeks went by after that and a cat came in with the abbreviation “SD” as their type of food. I asked Maxine and a tech what that stood for and they looked at me asthough I was stupid and cooed “Science diet.”

I took a red sharpie and wrote beside it, “Science diet”, since I knew people in kennel other than myself could very well mistake that, and also for my own reference. 

A few days later, after I had written that in, I came in to work to find that someone had given this cat S/O. The kibble from S/O and science diet are different in shape, size, and color. I looked at who had worked that morning, an older man by the name of Charlie who is known for making mistakes, after i wrote it out in SHARPIE. 

But I know it was probably never even brought to Charlie that he had made this mistake. 

Chances are I’m overreacting, but I needed this off of my chest, especially since recently Maxine asked me to take a cat’s rectal temperature when I’ve never been trained in how to do so at our office. I had been taught in my vet assisting class how, but never practiced doing so. 

And then she, after a meeting when I was washing dishes for kennel, came into kennel to tell me to “not be afraid to ask questions” when she herself has snapped on me and berated me whenever I have, made me feel like an idiot and destroyed my already low self esteem. 

I wish I had the courage to tell her how I nearly got Baker Acted due to suicidal thoughts and ideas in part due to the stress of working somewhere where I don’t feel I belong, going to school somewhere were I don’t belong and having that low self esteem.