How much can they expect from 1 vet assistant with no extra hands to help
So I’ve been scheduled to work as the only VA for a while. My other coworker told me it’s because they schedule the people who make them the most money and/or does a pretty good job at handling a lot of stuff (despite it being very stressful and annoying). I personally don’t feel like handling 15+ pets in the morning by myself when the doctor is preoccupied with surgery pets and the surgery team.
I normally try to do most of the notes and todo lists while he’s worrying about that because it’s very obvious that whenever my manager tries to ask him stuff he gets annoyed so I normally wait and keep the patient exam sheets until the pet is fully done.
Today he’s getting frustrated because he’s asking me to hand them to sheets but guess what😹nothing was even done because I had no one to help me so I’m not sure what he expects from me at this point.
Also checking in 15+ pets messes my brain up so I forget things we should pull up in the treatment plan but he also likes to acknowledge stuff and shrug it off like it doesn’t matter so I normally wait until he makes his own decisions and then he can call the pets’ owner to see if they approve. But ofc he’s on me about that too like man I’m just getting overloaded with info just spare me😐Especially, because he does the same thing and when we ask him about a pet he’s like “who?” Like be serious. I worked the weekend and it went fine because I had someone to help and I was able to keep track of everything.
It’s very annoying that they have so many nitpickings but don’t realize it’s not that easy to work with no help and I have wait until they aren’t busy which isn’t for at least 2 hours and then I get rushed once they’re done😒😒
Posted Jul 28, 2025, 6:14 PM UTC