*Nikki*

I need some serious advice/opinions about some things that happen at my work place.

*IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT ANIMALS DON'T BOTHER RESPONDING*

This is going to be kinda long.....but it has to be to understand what is happening.

As many of you may or may not know I am a veterinary technician. I work at a medium sized (about 12 employees) clinic. The clinic is owned by a doctor that has been practicing there for 20+ years and also we have a second Vet who works part time.
I myself have worked there for a little over three years.

Well the longer I work there the more I notice the overall attitude of the other employees and the doctor. Basically they have a "I don't give a shit attitude about a whole lot of things". Animals do not get the treatment that their owners believe that they are getting....for example...

*Sick animals are left overnight unsuppervised, where more then half the time they die. (This could be solved by having the animals sent to a place called The Emergency Clinic where they get overnight care) However the owner is never given the option of this or even told that this could happen. Rather they are reassured by the doctor/employees that the animal will be checked on during the night at our clinic. This is a lie.

*I am asked frequently by the doctor to lie. I am told to tell people he is busy or "in surgery" while really he is sitting on his ass in front of the computer in his office trading stocks. He spends 80% of his work day doing this. Sick animals often get put aside until he is done doing this.

*People pay hundreds of dollars to have their animals taken care of by us. People pay for their animals to have exams with shots and half the time the doctor doesn't even check them, but the people are still charged for the exam and told that "Everything is fine" with their animals health.

*Employees who see that the doctor has this "I don't give a shit attitude" have started act the same way. Doing things that are very importent "half ass" because they know they can get away with it.

*I am the only person that even cleans anything there. All the employees are complete slobs and in an medical enviroment things need to be kept quite sanitary. Once again.....no one cares.

*Before I went home tonight I found a bird who was supposed to be "observed" by one of our doctors in the back office. It had no food or water for who knows how many days. This is just one of MANY MANY examples.

Here is my dilemma.

I can't loose this job. I live by myself and support myself. The ecomnomy is so bad here....jobs are so scarce.

I want to do the right thing....but I don't know what the right thing is.

I know that what I am seeing is wrong, and it's killing me.

Help.