Job Dislikes

[cheerfulgreek]

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.

[Phrozen Sands]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

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.

[andthen]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

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.

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.

[33girl]

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.)

[aggieAXO]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

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.

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.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by aggieAXO

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.

[aggieAXO]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

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&#128521. 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.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by aggieAXO

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&#128521. 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.

lol
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.

[Phrozen Sands]

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

[aggieAXO]

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

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!!

[Sarak24034]

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

[PrettyBoy]

Working from home — deadlines.

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