Job Dislikes
 

I’m sure most of us on here like/enjoy what we do for a living. But no job/career is perfect. If you could pick a dislike or dislikes about your job/career that stand out — the thing that makes you dread going in sometimes. What would it be.

For me it’s when I’m held accountable for the things that are out of my control. So our center managers are required to get so many customer surveys a month. If they don’t meet that goal we have to find out why. Or if certain stores in my region are suffering from people not doing what they’re supposed to, then I have to find out why. Drives me nuts when it’s simple stuff that just needs to be followed. It’s all a numbers game. But the surveys are my biggest dislikes. You can’t make somebody take a survey.

You?

Hearing my patients owners life stories that have nothing to do with the health of their pets. And then when they question what they’ve been charged for after they’ve been told. Just happened Friday with an Australian Cattle Dog Mix. With the exception of my family, my best friend and my coworkers, I’m just not a people person. Ugh! My family and the people I work with know I’m not but they tell me I play it off really well lol.

Wow! Really? I had no idea you weren’t a people person, CG. You seem outgoing and really friendly on here.

Love me Australian Cattle Dog mixes my parents have one. She's sweet but very sassy.

I do get where you are coming from Cheerful Greek. People just sort of wear me out. Its funny when I was a kid I thought I wanted to be a vet but then when you have to deal with sick and animals that are dying, I knew I couldn't handle that. It would just make me entirely too sad. Which I give major kudos to anyone who enters that field as a whole.

Instead I ended up becoming a nurse. I figured most not all people make their own choices that might lead to poor outcomes. Although I decided while in nursing school being a pediatric nurse wasn't my bag either. I used to joke my favorite patients were the sedated ones. :-)

But my least favorite part as a nurse was the dying. I took care of many a hospice patient, and those deaths you knew were coming at some point. Others, it was a recently diagnosed illness. Strangely when you see people that close to death I think the death process itself is easier on the person who is dying, versus the loved ones left behind. It also made me realize too to be very clear in communicating my wishes should something happen to me and I can't make decisions for myself.

But aside from the sadness and empathy, I worked overnights, I swear people would always die between 2:30-3:30 am. We did hourly rounds when I would see a patient who had passed the first couple of times I'd call in another nurse just to make sure I'm not hearing a heartbeat. One time we were super short staffed so I had to basically get the body in a bag. I swear I was so paranoid that the person was just going to pop up! Had to end on a bit of levity.

Miscommunication from higher ups. Get all your ducks in a row before you give me a direction so I don’t end up redoing it. And when you come back and change it don’t give me the ultimate mealy mouthed excuse “I’m just following orders.”

The other big dislike: not listening to the boots on the ground. If 4 supervisors and all her team members tell you a person is an idiot, that should be enough to fire her, even if that means one less person on the team. (GC correlation: giving a bid to anything that moves just to get numbers up.)

I hated it when I would give suggestions to a student and his/her parents for alternative ways to accomplish the educational goal and the parents would complain to the head of school. For instance, I taught a student whose parents saw him being a pro hockey player as an adult. This kid ( 8th grade) was on 2 travel hockey teams. He practiced 3-4 hours after school, was driven to the east coast twice a week to practice with his east coast team there. He rarely did his reading, so consequently didn’t/ couldn’t do his homework. I suggested the parents get the novels we were using in class on tape, and he could listen to the assigned chapters while he was driven all over creation to his practices( I was more judicious in my spoken words). His parents took offense and complained to the head of MS who then had to come talk to me, all for trying to help a student not fail.

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I am friendly, Phrozen. That’s part of the problem, according to my staff. My coworkers tell me I’m the problem because I’m so friendly to our customers. They told me a lot of times our customers like to schedule their appointments with me the most because of my friendly, “bubbly” personality. They told me not to be so nice all the time.

On here is different. There’s no one actually talking and I can turn GC on or off, unlike people in real life lol

Thank you for posting this, andthen. I had no idea you’re a nurse. That’s an amazing field to be in. I know it’s really hard but at the same time I’ll bet it’s very rewarding. Nurses go through a lot. I’m just like wow @ you placing a deceased person in a bag. I couldn’t. I just couldn’t do that. That’s too much.

Did you work as a nurse during Covid? What was that like?

I should have reworded that. I can believe it but because of how you post, I’m surprised to know you’re not a people person.

Nursing has been a rewarding career, I don't do so much direct patient care anymore I do more of the administrative stuff and work in the public health sector. But I do have several friends who still work at the same hospital I worked at many moons ago. A few worked in the ICUs during the pandemic they said it was rough and quite stressful. My hats off to them truly.

Its funny working in any sort of medical field whether it be people or animals there are somethings that are just too much for each us as individuals. Putting the body in the bag was a bit weird but when I had to take it to the morgue...yeah that was my first time in a morgue.

One day I was at my vet's office picking up a med refill for my dog and they had the candle lit out on the front counter and gosh if I didn't get choked up. Mind you I've been going to that vet for ages and they've helped put several dogs down.

^^^ It’s always awesome and interesting reading someone else’s experience in another profession within the medical field and not just veterinary medicine. Thank you for all that you do, andthen. I appreciate you. :)

Is that why you became a veterinarian so you wouldn’t have to deal with humans?

^^^ That’s part of it. The other reason is because of my love of animals. Animals are SO cute, innocent and funny.

Lol!

You should go into ER medicine. I too don’t like to chit chat and this is what I like about ER medicine- no time for chit chat😊. I will say I had the most chatty client last night at 2 am while I had 5 other rooms waiting -ugggg.

Ok back to the original question- what I hate most about my job are euthanasias - my co- workers know this and try and take the euthanasias if possible. One day I had 8 and that day just about killed me. I treated a block cat a few months ago and he re blocked- the owner was so sweet I could not euthanize the cat so I paid for a PU surgery, unfortunately the cat came back a week later with diabetes and ended up getting euthanized which made me very sad.

Oh dear God, if I worked midnights at an ER hospital again, my husband would have a cow. That was SO short lived.

Aggie, call me crazy and weird (my coworkers do), but I don’t know why or where the connection comes from or if there is a connection to something else? - but I really, really struggle when I have to put a sick patient down when they come in wearing a cute sweater or a collar with a bell on it. I’m tearing up right now thinking about it. I lose it every time. I’ve gotten better emotionally at euthanizing sick patients, but when there’s cute accessories attached to them, I still have a hard time with that. I have NO idea why that is.

I mostly work day shifts now but will work two to three overnights a month as I get paid really well since it seems no one wants to do them (hmm I wonder why😉). I had an elderly man in last night with his schnauzer named Princess Grace-OMG she was the cutest schnauzer -her head was so tiny. She was in for euthanasia as she had a neurological condition and heart disease -euthanizing companions of older people makes me extremely sad as I know they likely won’t get any more pets. Seeing older men crying makes me so sad.

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I worked four 10-hour nights, but I had 3 days off together, which I liked. And it worked so well with my kids schedule. Plus, it saved on daycare which was really expensive. My husband hated it because we didn’t see each other as much and “the bed was too big” without me in it with him lol. So it was a very short lived experience. Now, I’m just a M-F mornings, normal schedule.

I couldn’t. That would make me very sad as well. It’s already hard enough seeing anyone cry in those situations, let alone an older couple where their pet has been a family member for a very long time. I had a younger man where he just would not let his cat go. Her gums were completely white and I had to explain to him that it was time. She had lymphoma.

Interesting reading a conversation between two veterinarians. The more y’all chat, the more I learn Lol.

No day is the same at our jobs!!

I believe it. Y’all go through a lot.

This!

Today is surgery day and it’s a busy one. Taking 10 minutes to eat something…. and post. :p

Working 10 hours a day at Amazon and only having 2 30 minutes break. 4 days of work is a good thing but there should be an hour-long break to make it easier.

I barely got to eat today, came in to work putting out fires left and right! First case I took was a HBC- drunk driver plowed into a house this morning, dog ran off, owner found him and then watched him get ran over😞 much internal bleeding but still alive tonight- will see what tomorrow brings
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Oh no! I posted about an HBC I had when I was working in Michigan. They just left him inside the door and told us to help him, then they just left. We tried to save him, but we ended up losing him. I hope your patient makes it. Please keep me posted, Aggie.

I came in at 7 am and unfortunately he did not make it. My ABD cat also died. Uggg bad weekend. I am emotionally exhausted. Sorry about your pup😞I am buying megamillion lotto tickets cause I want to retire!

I’m really sorry, Aggie. You had such a tough weekend. :(

Yeah, my HBC patient was about 10 years ago, but at the time, I had a feeling we wouldn’t be able to save him.

Maybe I need to play the lottery too. If I won, I’d only be retiring to get away from the people who come in with their pets lol.

What is an “HBC patient”?

Hit By Car :(

I learned something new. Thanks, AGDee.

I spent a lot of time at a very busy animal hospital toward the end of my last pup's life and learned way more than I ever wanted to know. They had a lot of emergencies coming in and you just hear stuff. So I learned HBC.

I work in a local high school in special education. I have a student that threatens my life with regularity. The rest of my job is a dream, and most of the time I can’t believe they pay me for this. Today I am hardcore believing it and believing they should pay me WAY. MORE.

My late MIL had the same problem. Her arms and legs were broken several times, not on purpose (we hope!). There's a special place in heaven for those who work in Special Ed!

I work at the DMV. I'll just leave it at that.

Working from home — deadlines.

Teaching — getting students to think outside the box.

The woman I work with is a NIGHTMARE; a pure drama queen who literally threw a whole tantrum last week. A GROWN WOMAN THREW A TANTRUM AT WORK. And, she's in a "leadership" position. Praise be that she isn't my boss.

My husband taught very emotionally disturbed teens for 5 years. I think the only way he got through it was that he and his aide were big men; their bosses were no help in that horrible job. Women and smaller men would leave after a few months because the kids would attack them viciously and they weren't removed from the program, as they were supposed to be.

Four of his students ended up in the jail where I was teaching (I was so thrilled to see their names on my roster) but they acted so badly right off that they were soon moved to higher-security CIs.

I never have been able to understand how people like that keep their jobs. I’ve always felt that HR has never done enough to force people like that out of their positions and/or jobs. It’s people that make or break a job. People cause stress, not the job itself. People like her shouldn’t be employed.

It's definitely been.....interesting and it's gotten to the point that I regularly consider if it's worth upsetting her before making a decision about how to handle something. At the end of the day, it's just a job for me; it's not my life. I am going to do my work and go home.

She had another tantrum this week when her boss told her that I was going to be taking on some ADMINISTRATIVE TASKS. ADMINISTRATIVE TASKS. Who doesn't want to give up administrative tasks?!

My boss told me this is untenable - I said, I was going to use that word as well.

Short story - I'm job hunting... again. I hope I can find something internally but also a former boss of mine should be posting a position soon and she said I'm her first choice. I'm jumping at whatever opportunity presents itself first because this is bananas.

.... I work at a well known university with a prestigious reputation.

Oh, the joy of (formerly) holding a job in the political sector. EVERYONE you work with has their job because of their political connections. No Need to have ANYONE rub your face in that fact; we're all here due to the same lucky accident of Who We Know...

....unless one is a Boss/Supervisor. THEN throwing tantrums is The Way to show You're In Charge. I quit my job due to a bosswoman of ill-mannered temper. God love her, a year later she died of a brain tumor. ABSOLUTELY explains her bossy on-the-job demeanor.