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writes:So this isn't about a relationship per say but it deals with my work.So I work in a Veterinary Hospital as a Veterinary Assistant/technician. I've been there 8 months now. It's a small clinic, right now we have 5 full time employees (including myself) and a Veterinarian who is there 3 days a week. Our practice manager is typically at our second location and only comes to our clinic a couple times a month or as needed.So when I started we had two Veterinarians, one left a week after I started so we had only had one Veterinarian 5 days a week. He left the second week of May so now we have one filling in from our other location the 3 days a week. Anyway so since I started I had to prove myself to the old veterinarian (which I understand why) but I was given certain tasks when I first started like giving medication to surgery patients before surgery. One time I asked another assistant/technician a dosage for this patient (I forget why I was getting confused with dosage) but she told me what to give so I did. It ended up being too much for the patients weight and the veterinarian came to my lead and I and said I gave the wrong dose so from then on I was only to give medications that they took from the bottle and said give this to so and so. That was about a month after I started.Shortly after that (within the same month I believe) when the veterinarian was on vacation and we had one filling in from our other location, her and the senior technician felt I was ready/capable of teching rooms by myself (which just means getting all the information to relay to the veterinarian as to why they're there). So I was doing that until the primary Veterinarian got back from vacation in December and caught on that I was teching rooms. He said I wasn't allowed to do that and took that away from me. We had a new girl start 3 months after me and from the time she started she was able to do anything and everything when I was being held back in my opinion. I came in with a little more experience than she did. Right as she was starting I said to my lead that I felt I was ready to start giving vaccines (because up until that point I wasn't comfortable yet). The lead said she spoke with the veterinarian and he said I needed to learn about vaccines and why we give them before he'd let me vaccinate. While I was gaining the knowledge and learning about those vaccines (which I want to point out that the girl who started 6 months before me didn't know information about a couple of the vaccines). But when I finally told the veterinarian that I felt I knew the information and he gave the okay. Soon after that the new girl was being allowed to give vaccines. And still to this day she cannot tell you much information about them and what symptoms these viruses can cause if we don't vaccinate. She's also been allowed to do things I was not, and being trained on things I wasn't. She even went to the point of when I was asked to do something she would walk past me and say I got it and not let do it. I brought that up to her once and she apologized saying she thought she heard both of our names. But then in a meeting I got pulled in to in May with her and our practice manager, when I brought up those situations her response was "so you're mad I get there first?".She messes up all the time and there hasn't been any consequences for it. She also gets high all the time at work. She smokes weed before work, on her lunch and throughout the day in the bathroom or throughout the clinic and has blamed the weed smell on clients when our old veterinarian would ask about why it smelled in our clinic. I have tried to get along with her but I got to the point where I was frustrated that she was getting to do the more "tech" things and I got pushed aside to do the more "Assistant" things like cleaning everything. I just want to know how to work with her moving forward even though I don't like her and feel we aren't being treated the same even though we got hired to do the same thing.
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