I QUIT! Why I Quit My Job As A ZooKeeper | EMZOTIC
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Why did I quit my dream job as a ZooKeeper?
My dream was to become a ZooKeeper. My dream did come true.. for a while...
Are you a zoo keeper? Share your experiences of working in a zoo below. I hope your experience is better than mine!
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WELCOME BACK CREATURES!! Today I have a story time for you. I'm going to spill the tea on why I left my dream job.
DISCLAIMER: MY EXPERIENCE WAS AWFUL BUT THIS IS NOT TYPICAL IN MANY ZOOS. Have you ever had a job ruined or quit a job without notice? VENT YOUR FRUSTRATION down in the comment box below! I bet some of you have shocking experiences!! Next week, we'll be getting in the Halloween spirit!! XXX Em
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Emzotic Hey Em! I just wanna ask, what is your opinion on places like SeaWorld? (Don’t know if you have ever answered this as I’m quite new to your channel)💓
Naomi Evans-Wright I personally can not support Sea World because I don’t believe that Orca can be kept happily in captivity. I support Sea worlds efforts to rescue and release marine life, but not their circus acts with the orca x
Emzotic I completely agree! Animals should be happy and free!💕
Naomi Evans-Wright It’s a little more complicated than that :) but I understand xx
My mother worked at a local Kmart in the pharmacy before the pharmacy got shut down.. And she quit because a rumor had began that she was doing drugs, because she had been "oddly nice to customers." She quit soon after her drug test. The only thing she takes is prescribed meds. She's been clean for years. Some people just can't let others enjoy their jobs.
Native Bri What!? So now people are on drugs if they’re decent people? Fml
Emzotic
Lol I love you Em ❤️
@@Emzotic magic mushrooms, anyone?! jk xD
wait wutt?? What kind of people work there if being nice to customers is considered odd? I mean sure I worked retail and customers can be terrible but you still have to be nice to them and you can have a friendly chat with most of them. apparently I've been on drugs myself.
When I was selling bus tickets, I was "black sheep" of company, because I was nice to foreigners. My coworkers, every time they took money from black person, they washed their hands and was disgusted by me, when I didn't. Almost nobody was talking with me because of it. Then they started to count my minutes, that I spend on toilet and when I asked them, if it's problem to go to toilet and tha I can't anything about it, that I just need to go pee, they told me: "I don't drink whole shift (12 hours) to not go peeing.". I was there only 5 months, than I quit. I ended that job with screaming at my manager: "People under you are having depression and are really struggling with every day, they are at job, because of those bitches. You won't do anything about it?", she replied "If they are unhappy, they can leave.".
Now I'm hating even buy tickets from this bus company, because I know how horribly they are behaving to their staff.
I love that you do disclaimers at the beginning of videos like this, like saying it's not typical of all zoos. It's really responsible of you! I work in a zoo and I love it, I'm so sorry you had such a bad experience! Zoos are often seen as a standard for animal care, so when you get a bad one it does often tar all zoos, which is such as shame as there are some great ones out there!
Rio Kelathi Thanks Rio. I don’t want people to think that all zoos are bad!
Rio Kelathi zoos are awful, animals weren’t put in this world to serve us or to entertain us... one thing is a rehabilitation center and another thing is a zoo, that steels animals from the wild and keeps them captive against their will, and don’t try to tell me that some of the animals are rescued bc that’s just simply not true...
@Joana Pereira Your grammar is awful, ever hear of capital letters? Plus, zoos can help people get closer to animals and learn about them so they can eventually help them if something goes wrong
Any job available as zoo keeper now ?
@@joanapereira3336 I agree in general but, we can’t tar everyone with the same brush. They shouldn’t be taken from the wild but, once they’re in that position what can we do? They need taking care off at this point.
I do not get why they wouldn't replace her. If people are leaving all the time and she is constantly causing problems it seems like it would cost more to keep her.
bethismagical I think it’s because she was backed by a union who protected her ferociously
I have heard the same kind of problems with teachers who have tenure. I wonder if she had always been like that or if she waited until she was set so to speak to let her true colors show. I am all for workers having their jobs protected but it is a massive problem that they protect garbage people who really don't deserve to be there.
I have a manager like that and she’s literally driven off all the knowledgeable long-term staff and I’m legit the last person there who has been around for over 2yrs (I’m in my 5th). But they refuse to get rid of her because she’s the daughter of the general manager for the entire store 😒😒😒😒
Emzotic That makes a really good argument against unions.
I work in an office, and my manager is legitimately the exact same way (sans the alcoholism). You would think that they'd get rid of people like that, but they just don't.
its kind of astounding to me that you didn't bring up the drinking. that is a serious fireable offense. especially as a zookeeper. and its extremely easy to prove. breathalyzer. i understand hindsight is 20/20 but not doing anything about a woman who drinks on the job where her ability to analyze and pay attention to her surroundings is key to her AND everyone else's safety is really really bad... she could have been FIRED if you had spoken up, there would be no reward for her accept her stupid prizes.
Meghan LR There were at least 3 major alcoholics at this place - One was a top manager. Not one that I was that close to and he was always quite pleasant but TOTALLY hitting the bottle!!
oof that is a rough situation :(
Emzotic
Yikes
My supervisor (a long time ago) was a serious bully. I worked under her for about a year before it got too much and I verbally lost it with her and stormed out of the office. The actual circumstances on the day were so trivial, but it was the last straw in a whole catalogue of behaviour. I was seen leaving the office by the HR Manager and another senior manager. I was in floods of tears, and they took me somewhere quiet and I told them what was going on with my supervisor. They were actually really supportive, though they did say that 'this' was a massive over reaction to the event that had just taken place...I knew they were right, but I also kept reminding myself that it wasn't an isolated incident. I think they sent me home, I went to my GP, and she signed me off with stress for two weeks. I used that time to find another job, and left without ever having to encounter my ex supervisor again...which I was very grateful for.
I'm so sorry you experienced such a vile work environment too, but it made us who we are today, strong confident women. And secretly I smile when I think of the telling off I gave her all those years ago 😁xx
PumpkinBecki Good for you for standing up for yourself!!! You should! Nobody deserves to be trampled!
I really loved how professional you were with everyone and how you could just know your worth and not being victim of this person. You stood up and it was great for you and the zoo, even tho that reward is the worst thing, because she probably haven't learned anything in those years about the interaction with human being.
So proud of you ❤️
Alice Zavatta Thank you so much Alice ❤️ I tried to keep professional because I wanted to be the keeper there and Improve the zoo, but in the end it was wrapped up in so much red tape and bureaucracy that it just wasn’t worth the stress :/
I FEEL FOR YOU EM! I actually had to deal with a similar situation this past year. I got job at a large dog boarding facility that I had been wanting for for a few years. Unfortunately when I got there the supervisors did a poor job at training me and the other new employees. Whenever I would ask questions the supervisors would act like it was such a inconvenience for them to actually show me how to do my job. Not only that but the staff constantly yelled at or hit the dogs. Despite the fact that the facility has several policies against hitting the dogs it still happened on a daily basis. Eventually I couldn't take it any more and I quit the job a few months after I started. I absolutely loved working with the dogs but my coworkers made it a toxic environment that was honestly bad for my mental health.
Sarah Ruona omg you NEVER hit dogs to discipline them!! That’s awful!!! 😱😱😱 Dog boarding can be such a joy, too!
If you didn’t report the place then you should. That is abusing animals! And if it’s a dog boarding place they are abusing other peoples dogs!!!! That place needs to be shut down immediately
you should report this place. if i brought my dog to be boarded and found out people were hitting her, i'd flip out. that's animal abuse, and this place needs to bet shut down
I had a similar experience at a dog boarding facility, except I never saw the staff hit a dog. In my case, they had only one barely trained employee at a time watch over 25-35 dogs of all different sizes and behavioral reputations all cramped into this “playroom”. This one person was responsible for breaking up inevitable dog fights while also constantly cleaning up their piss and poo. It was nearly impossible, and incredibly unsafe. Oftentimes when I was unsuccessful in breaking up a dog fight one of the managers would have to sprint into the room and save me. Sometimes, they wouldn’t even remove the dog from the playroom. They would continue to put aggressive dogs in the playroom with all the others. Btw, there were literally just as many managers as there were people working in the back (4). Red flag much? Anyway, my grievances don’t stop there. When isolated in this playroom with these insane hoards of dogs, your only coping mechanism was a tiny old radio. So one day, I turn on this radio to make the best out of a shitty situation, and the senior manager (the worst employee of all) storms in and yells, demanding I turn the radio down, when it was already barely loud enough to hear over the sounds of the dogs barking. This same manager also was telling a story one morning about a finicky dog, and blatantly said the dog “doesn’t like colored people.” I was fucking shook. The next day, one of the managers under her quit without notice. Then I quit the day after her with no notice.
Veronica sounds awful! But I am relieved. I was afraid you quit because you found out zoo's are actually terrible for the animals.
Etta I actually support many of the good zoos. But there’s plenty of bad ones too!
Emzotic gotta make sure not to support the bad ones! I’m glad you vocally support zoos, because I find a lot of animal activists see zoos as nothing more than cages to exploit animals, so it’s great to have someone advocating for the positives that come with zoos.
Etta
I agree. Quite a few zoos are made to provide safety for endangered animals, and also to educate people about them too. But unfortunately, there are quite a few bad ones too..
A lot of zoos take in endangered animals to try breed them and then release them in the wild
Not for the sick animals. A lot of zoos take on handicapped and disabled or animals who can’t live in the wild for various reasons. And give them a good easy life instead of a death sentence. The Eagle here in one of NJs zoos for instance is an example
The one dislike is the zoo
Musa Hussain it’s Veronica 😆
Musa Hussain no the one dislike was Veronica 😄😄😄
Musa Hussain
Veronica legit made 86 accounts and disliked LOL
For any new zookeepers! You're going to come across some not so nice people in the industry. But please don't lose hope! You WILL find your perfect zoo and workmates and it will be so worth it! 💖
I’ve been a zookeeper for a little under 2 years now at a popular zoo in Texas. It’s been fantastic getting this knowledge and experience under my belt, but the politics, back pain (oh my god...), and bad pay were really my driving factors for leaving. It’s one of those things where I’ve done what I came to do, am at peace with my own experience there, and am ready to move forward to something more up my field in aquatics. Wouldn’t trade my time there for anything.
How have u had such a long work history? ......you dont look a year over 21.
Well you got to do what you got to do. No point wasting your time with such people. Anyway you turn out for the better with all your life experiences. Live life fullest and looking forward to your next video. 👍
People in the animal industry can be nasty sometimes. I never understood it. I worked in a dog kennel and was treated this way.
I just found your channel today and I love your content already! I love how the explaining to you having quit your job as a zookeeper had everything to do with a coworker and not the animals, just proving how much better animals are than humans lol. I actually worked at what I thought was my DREAM job last year, at Sephora, only to have such a similar experience to you. Other than alcohol being involved, I worked with a team that I got along will except one woman who made it hell and so uncomfortable. She would barely ever speak to me and vice versa once I got the message but she would say rude comments loud enough so she knew I, and other staff, could hear. The upper management even knew of this "attitude" and told everyone good luck and just to give it time. She was a downright bully who could never say anything to your face. She would take pictures of things people did wrong just the same, she said out loud that she was "too good" for the job...yet she was working along with us just the same, just so many similarities. Eventually I brought every racist and rude comment she made to the store manager and I was told they would do an investigation but I don't think they ever did. Eventually she left, as did the rest of the team basically and they had cut hours since it went from 7-9 people doing this job to just me and my supervisor. It was very bittersweet leaving and I basically just sent an email that I was quitting and that was that, no reply or anything. My job before I worked with amazing girls but our manager was a dickhead. I had enough of his attitude and quit, as did the others eventually. Just really goes to show you how one toxic person can really spoil the entire environment, no matter if you're doing what you love.
I was an unpaid intern at a small zoo that sounds similar in my area and am working to finish my degree simultaneously. Almost having my degree, I feel it was a good time to have an internship. I loved my work and I did very similar work but had I not had a supportive team I don't know how I would have gotten through it. It was 10-11 hours of brutal work for 2-3 days of a week and left me exhausted. I loved the work and animals, and found the experience very rewarding and realized this is what I want to do long term if I can. I know it's not easy but with a toxic environment enabling people like "Veronica" I can't even imagine what that must have looked like.. zookeepers need to be willing to teach one another and work together or the job will never go smoothly and animals will suffer. Thank you for sharing this. I'm so grateful for my experience and hope I continue to have good ones moving forward.
"Lets spill the tea"
*drinks coke*
Kelsey Weimar The real tea is that I don’t often drink tea. The second bit of tea is my Coke (a cola) addiction! 😆😆😆 For real though. I drink coke waaaaay too much
Emzotic my dad is the same xD
Lol this video is better than any drama series. No serious its aweful and horrible what happened. I am kind of sad as well, because I live in London and I feel like I know the Zoo you worked at. I hope this all is better now and im glad to hear that the Zoo is on a good track now. Haven't been in ages, so maybe I should go again soon 😍
My dad was a zoo keeper for 35 years (retired about 7 years ago) and it was at the Memphis Zoo. Very grateful for every experience I was allowed to have because I was the child of a zoo keeper.
I agree completly with your decision.
I had a boss in my first appreticeship who was very short-tempered. After the first violent attack i left this apprenticeship. First i thought i lost something but now after a dekade i realized i won a lot of experience handling with those people.
U need to thank Petko. He is the reason for me watching your channel and i enjoy really what you have to tell to us(or teach us somehow). Therefor i have to say THANK YOU!
Best regards 🖖😋
I am really keen to work with animals in the future, and this was kind of a life lesson for me and I actually learnt a lot from this. It annoys me how people can just take opportunities away from other people. Luv your videos
I've only watched one other video from this channel and this story makes me want to scream. Thank god you got out of there, but at least she's out of there. Animals suffer when people like this are allowed a reign of terror. Totally subscribing based on just these two videos, because I'm sure everything else will be great too.
I worked as a volunteer keeper's aide at the Virginia Zoo for 2 years and had the time of my life. The keepers and staff couldn't have been better. I got to help feed, clean and enrich lions, white rhinos, kudu deer, zebra, and tigers!!
For anyone in a similar situation, two words you need to learn: 'Constructive Dismissal'. Look it up.
I'm so sorry you went through that. I once did as well. For me, the faeces finally hit the aeration device when I suffered a work place injury that was entirely Toxic Jerk's fault. I know how their bullying behaviour wears away at your and abnormal comes to seem normal. They get away with it in places that are 'dream job' places- zookeeping is very hard to get into, so people will put up with a lot of shit(literally and figuratively in the case of zoos!) to keep their job.
Anyway...after single-handedly wrecking the career of Toxic Jerk and changing the entire workplace culture of that business (long story), I ended up being in management myself. I can tell you, from listening to your story, that the management over you were just absolutely begging you to enter mediation so that they could have a good, solid reason for sacking Veronica that would stand up in an employment tribunal. Of course, by that stage you were too worn down and fragile to be able to tolerate any extra stress whatsoever. That is how workplace bullies get away with it. It's frustrating, but your mental health is far more important than getting justice, so you did the right thing for you by walking away.
Employment law in the UK makes it really hard to sack someone (which is mostly a good thing), but it can be a problem if you have a spiteful employee. If anyone reading this feels you're in a bad situation, here are some tips that might save your sanity and your job:
- Make sure you really know your employment law. Being able to quote laws and regulations scares the crap out of HR.
- Join a union. They are not very powerful now, but they can give you legal aid in the case of constructive dismissal (which you could easily have claimed here, EM)
- KEEP A JOURNAL!!!! This is super important. Once anything starts to feel a little off, keep records. Everything. Dates and times. Keep emails. Any official documentation. Keep the language neutral and unemotional.
- Don't be afraid to use grievance procedures. They are there for just this sort of thing.
- Most importantly, look after your mental health first. If it's too much, get out of that situation. Quit. Being out of work is better than a nervous breakdown.
Finally, I'd take that early retirement as a victory, EM. It validates your experience- they got rid of her as soon as they possibly could. That shows that she was the problem, not you. Having been in that situation, I know how that doubt can linger.
I found you channel yesterday and I love it. All your animals are beautiful and I'm learning so many things. I had always wanted to work with animals unfortunately medical issues with my mom needs me to be at home so I'm pursuing to be a teacher online but wow your love for your animals is enormous. I now have new facts to share with family and friends
Personally,I think what the Bronx zoo is doing with Happy the elephant is absolutely terrible.
I dealt with a co worker at a school I used to teach in who did the EXACT same thing to me...I handled it exactly how you did. Your own dignity and peace of mind is worth far much more than putting up with someone disrespecting you and trying to make you look bad. It’s sad because people who act that way towards others have so much going on internally and are hurting emotionally. Glad you moved on from that and stood up for what you believe in.
I'm a vet tech student in my second year and I have found through doing my work study that I HATE general practice. Trust me, it's hell. It's not my major that's the problem; I really want to be a vet tech. That's just not the right job for me. Sometimes it takes a while to find your niche, even after you're sure about what you want to be career wise, so it's important to do your research and find a job that works for you. There's no reason you should allow yourself to be miserable when you're on a career path you know is right for you.
Wow your story brings back so many memories when I worked in an office environment where the office politics just consumes you in the worst ways possible. Listening to your story now just makes me appreciate the position I'm in right now, I am my own boss and even though the income is not always steady, it's better than being marinated in a toxic environment.
OMG I can so relate to this! Last year I was working on a small zoo and there was 3 horrible woman who went out of their ways to bully me and other staff members, it was so hard to deal with it, as they were senior to me. I get so cross with myself thinking of how much crap I put up with! But it’s so hard at the time, to do/say anything to them. Luckily I joined a union and they backed me, needless to say all 3 employees got dismissed for how they behaved!! 1 month later I left as I found a great new job as an animal educator! I’m just really glad I left after they had gone, would never wanna feel they had won by bullying me to leave 😡
Can you give me tips because im junior high right now and want to be a zookeeper so what should I do to prepare my self and I used to live in oxford but now in Canada
Neon animation and games Try and stay strong in your sciences. Aim for a degree in zoology and try to gain as much experience as possibly in any animal jobs - volunteering or paid! X
Neon animation and games Also check out my video on how to get a job with animals!
Some universities also offer degrees in zoo management which is what I am studying, it focuses on the more practical side of things, my uni even has it's own zoo where we do practical sessions and get loads of zoo keeping experience
I want to become an illustrator/artist when I grow up. But I WILL keep pets. Currently, I have a doggie and LOTS of snails (my snails are in my garden, not an enclosure. They don't like enclosures. I feed them tomatoes, carrots and cucumbers). I asked my mum for a snake (Nerodia Fasciata) but she said, "NOPE", even after I told her all the good qualities (nonvenomous, cat-like bite, needs to be fed only once a week, only 19.99 dollars, no walks, no rabies, INCREDIBLY beautiful). She said I can have one when I'm on my own.
So...
👌Wish me luck!👌
@@kirstyw7765 Do you go to Santa Fe? I live about an hour away and I think their program is amazing!
While I have not worked at a zoo yet, I did a teen volunteer program with my local zoo, and was a Zookeeper shadow essentially. i helped feed any animals I was allowed to be around. Made enrichment every day, helped make diets, washed dishes, went on the morning cleaning runs. And I did that for 4 years until i aged out of the program. Now i do the adult volunteer program, which for now is less hands on with animals until i get all my training done. But my hope is to work at a zoo when I'm out of college for a few years. What you said about zoo keeping being a team thing, and a job that heavily entails human interaction, oml are you right. Just as a teen volunteer alone I had to work with almost every staff member, I had to talk to guests, work with my fellow teens. And there were definitely keepers who did not like the human side of zoo keeping. It was impossible to work with them and they treated me more like an assistant to them and someone to do the inconvenient stuff versus an apprentice who wanted to learn and be engaged. But i still look forward to working at a Zoo one day
The fact that it was a public organization probably contributed to her keeping that job for so long (and her eventual early retirement). Knowing the system as well as she appeared to, it might've been _very_ difficult to get rid of her, for a variety of bureaucratic reasons.
However, it was naive of you to smell alcohol multiple times and still give her the benefit of the doubt. If you smell alcohol on someone at an inappropriate time, it's a 90% chance they have a problem. If it happens more than once, it's 100%.
“That’s when things got really ugly”
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Wow...😤🤬
That b$%*h! I cant believe that story. I was livid listening to the abuse that wlman put you through! Good for you for standing up for yourself and not allowing her to abuse you because your right sje was playing a game only she knee the rules to and you wouldnt have won. I have worked with and delt with many girls and woman like that. My mother being one of them at times..
Glad you found uour dream job keep up the great work I LOVE watching your videos and your accent relaxes my brain! Love you Em! 😘♥️
I used to work for a very small business where the only employees were me and the owner. Our workload was bordering on impossible, and she was giving me more so she could put more effort into a separate side business of hers. I was often working 24/7 for $15 a day and could NOT live on that even while living with family rent-free. In addition, the job was so demanding that I couldn't EVER take a vacation or sick day. I worked in some of the worst Minnesota blizzards, tornado warnings, and when I was running a 103 fever from pneumonia. I had to get surgery to remove what was believed to be a cancerous growth, but she threw such a fit over it. I had to WAIT four months to get the surgery until the day before christmas (our slowest day of the year) and spend the holidays MISERABLE. I also had to go back to work before I was recovered and was injured as a result. About a year after that I began experiencing very serious health issues and was forced to quit. The business went belly up but I'm healthy now and working somewhere I'm appreciated!
I have dealt with and am dealing with such a person and it's very hard to deal with them and I totally get how you feel
They sound insane.I am glad you got away from such toxic people!
I never had this at work, but I did with a roommate. Living with her was horrid for basically the whole time I was there. We were part of a program that helped college students live on their "own" close to school and the admins really wanted me to stick it out, to be the bigger person, mainly because they were convinced she just didn't "understand" how she was making things difficult for me. We had numerous meetings, and ultimately I just got to a point where I was so DONE that I didn't want to try. They basically begged me not to leave but even though I did need some of the support they were giving me I couldn't live in that situation. The last couple months I essentially lived in my then-girlfriend's apartment instead, until I was able to get a place of my own.
I worked at a Dr office once for about 3 weeks. One of the medical assistants asked me to do something I wasn't certified to do and I said no of course, for obvious reasons. Was called into the office the next day and fired for "not being bubbly enough". They told me I did every thing fine, I jumped in and really got hands on and was proactive. But I wasn't bubbly enough. Honestly there was a lot wrong with how they were running the place, telling patients lies, over charging people, sneaking items into a patients treatment package they didn't agree to trying to increase the payout amount, backing the elderly into a corner and basically forcing them to accept treatment (making them think they didn't have any other options with how the office manager presented the situation) so I don't think I would have lasted long there for those reasons anyway. But I really do believe that they fired me for standing up for myself and they were just giving a bogus excuse because they didn't really have any reason to fire me in the first place. They didn't like that I was outspoken, honest or intelligent they wanted somebody who would roll over and just do what they were told with no morals. It's kind of sick that a medical office would be run such a way. I mean it's a Dr office they are supposed to be there to help you, not scam you. I loved the actual work, and the patients. But I would NEVER recommend this particular office to anybody for work or for service. I think a lot of us have had this kind of experience. "Veronicas" are everywhere and they exist to cater to themselves and they don't care who they have to throw under the bus to do it.
When I was 15 my manager would grope me in the locker room but me and my family needed the money so I just put up with it. I've moved since then, 19 now, but still get shivers waking up from it in the middle of the night
n m Mkay’ that sounds very illegal! Glad you’re away from that creep!
I was working retail at a card shop during the peak Christmas period and another employee called in sick so it was left to just me and one of the managers, during the most busy time the manager left me on my own on the shop floor to go to paperwork and would complain that the shop floor was a state when I had no time to clean and serve customers at the same time she would then leave me alone again and ignore me when I called her down for help, it was so stressful so I reported her to the area manager and she was moved onto a different branch
"I will be a very dirty woman *laughs*"
Dirty minded as well 🤣
blobin456 drawz HA! You took it there!
In any job you sometimes get stuck with the wrong people and it's not the job itself, but it is the one person that can ruin a job experience. Wished management could sometimes open their eyes a bit more to see what goes on.
Thank's for sharing. I love knowing more about you :]
I feel for you em, been there with other jobs before. Im working at a vet clinic and love my coworkers and the work I do, but the Vet that I work with is a horrible older man and is nasty to animals. Im very uncomfortable working there now after seeing him abuse a puppy because it didnt obey him instantly when he was xraying it. But I feel guilty about wanting to quit as i know my coworkers need my help as they are short handed. I am trying to find another clinic to work and and continue to learn and help and educate with animals.
I worked as a Bricky for a buddy here in Copenhagen lots of heavy lifting and limey dust. Being a pianist it was a bad fit for many reasons
Em, been in the same sort of poisonous situation except the person was a manager affecting many people. I did the best thing and quit as situation escalated.
I dealt with an older woman at a dog daycare that I worked at who was extremely nasty to me and thought I was dumb and treated me like I was 5. Thank god other people I worked with noticed and stuck up for me and told the owner what was going on and that it wasn’t okay. But that didn’t save my job because I did an Irish goodbye once I hit my last nerve.
I have definitely found the zoo you worked at em and I was tempted to reveal it but I did not want to cause you any stress as I am #teamemzoticforlife 🧡🧡🧡
I worked at so many places with animal lovers like rescues and vet offices and such. At every facility there was at least 1 person who seemed to hate people. They must have been there for their love of animals but goodness they weren't team players or even nice to people!
Like you, I left before they did.
Hi Em!! I love your channel and the first video I saw of yours was you room tour and I was wondering if you could do an updated version it would be great 🙂🙃 Thx
I totally understand how u feel and I totally agree with you, you did the right thing
Em so sad to hear that story, im having the same issue in my job actually and they offer me to leave my place for not firing someone who has worked more years in the place..anyways she didnt win probably she spent her money on alcohol..and keeps being a sad evil person even with her one self. You are amazing you win!
I've had to deal with a similar woman when I worked for a museum. She was an elderly woman, but was an absolute control freak who like to throw her status around as a way to get what she wants. This woman was so petty that she didn't like another woman who worked in the same office to get a desk that was bigger than her own. I couldn't stand working worth her and we had a standoff that was very similar to what you had with "Veronica," right down to her proclaiming "How dare you!" after I called her out on her BS in front of my manager. She's also the main reason why I quit that job. The work was tedious, but I really enjoyed my time roaming around the museum at lunch time. It was one of my favorite places to be. It sucks how it can take 1 asshat to ruin a good thing for people.
You can't pay me enough to be treated badly by ANYONE. I did it when I was younger until one day I said, "no more", and after that I never took anyone's crap after that! No one deserves to be treated awfully like that.
I went to an animal park once and got to feed lemurs. We sat on a log and the lemurs would climb on us (my family and i) and we would have food on our hands for them. One lemur had twin babies on her back and it was so cute😆
Holy crap I am not even kidding this sounds like my most recent year at uni with one of my “best friends” and I’ve now had to take a year out for it.
We got called to mediation, except this person did not think they did anything wrong and mediation is about compromise and you cannot compromise with someone who isn’t willing ever to admit they’re wrong or someone who doesn’t believe they did anything wrong.
It is the worst thing and I did what you did and just left, it’s the only thing you can do.
God I feel this so much.
Will u PLEASE do more vids of Dobby and Niffler?! 💕 Btw ilysm ur my fave UA-camr, and I hope to be just like u some day!
YoQuinn 19 You’ll see Dobby and Niffler next week! You’re so sweet. Thanks for being a subscribe xx
@@Emzotic oh my God, I can't believe u replyed to my comment, 😭💕 I'm totally crying rn, ik u comment on many peoples other comments, but it means so much to me that u got back to mine! Thank u ilysm 💕💕💕
Before my brain injury I used to work as an electrical assembler. There was a guy in our department who didn't like me and a number of my coworkers so we all got together and told our boss what our problems were with him. Shortly after he was moved to another department. Life was good from then on until upper management decided that the Chinese could do our job cheaper. Then I was let go. But I couldn't do that job now anyway. Thanks to my brain injury.
This seems so much like the person who harasses me at my current job, it's been classed as work place harassment and she hasn't be fired even though what she is doing is against the law in Australia and I can take her to court. I'm at my wits end with her, i know this sounds horrible but I'm glad im not the only one out there dealing with workplace harassment, this story makes me feel more confident with standing up to her
Could you make stickers for all of your designs? I love the designs, but don't really want them on a shirt- no offense. I love stickers (would buy the stickers if they were ever made) and i also want a way to support you! Thanks
roxanne hummel Great suggestion! I’ll get on it :) x
"You don't like to get your hands dirty, do you?"
I had someone on the animal management course I took say the exact same thing to me.
Fun fact: She used to push a ton of her cleaning tasks onto me because she didn't want to do them, and didn't care what state the animals were left in.
Another fun fact: I was suffering from the progressing symptoms of severe OCD, but still struggled through to do both her tasks and mine, as I refused allow those animal to suffer because of her cruelty and arrogance.
Sad thing is, she become qualified and is probably out there somewhere working within animal care.
Aliases are fairly easy to come up with, in my case. There's a famous university in Rhode Island, Brown University, an Ivy Little-League college in Providence, great school, but it's not good to mention their name in the stuff I write. Therefore, I took the name of the most posh cemetery in the city (Swan Point) and now there's Swan Point University. I've taken quite a piss when I wrote a sports satire piece about when the Brown Bears beat the Swans after 23 years of losing to them.
Just two people... welcome to Hell.
Your a very smart woman so I'm sure you already know this but this exact shit happens all the time at so many other places. I've personally been through it a few times and it is literally like living in a nightmare that never ends. It's never worth it. Its always the smart choice to move on . Always other places that are bigger and better. It is so crazy how they gave her early retirement. What a lucky witch. Your the winner in the end because she's just living an obvious miserable life and trying to compensate with substance abuse and spewing hatred. And look at you now. In today's world it really does seem like your not winning unless your selfish and arrogant though. Good people rarely get what they deserve.
am i the only one who's blood is boiling just hereing about this
That's pretty conserning that they didnt get rid of " Veronica" ASAP. That kind of behavior is just unacceptable and to actually print out that email and then hang it where all can see. That's not only pathetic, but says little about her companion for others. Employee of the month right there, i think not😒
I actually had a boss like your charming "Veronica", he actually made jokes about me having cancer. Mind you at the time i didnt know the prognosis of my test results and was scared i was going to die. I just can't understand why people are such lint lickers!
i had a coworker like veronica. she'd been working at this place since before i was born (no really, and i'm a full grown adult) and basically got away with everything - being rude to coworkers, customers, and even the managers - but because she had been there so long no one wanted to fire her. she would get on my back for every little thing. she only stopped because i caught her gambling while she was on the clock (super illegal here), and i guess she figured that she better watch herself or I would tell the owner. I ended up quitting because the customers were even more awful than she was, but she didn't give me trouble after I caught her
What a sucky, sick, twisted, manipulative, sad person! Kudos to you for showing so much restraint and professionalism Em! I definitely would have lost my cool on her more than once!
I recently went through a similar thing, only it was the store manager at the supermarket I used to work at who was the bully. It got so bad that I would come home multiple days a week either crying my eyes out, in the midst of a panic attack, or my body would involuntarily shake at the thought of going to work. Because it was a union job, I tried to get them involved to solve the problem. Nothing worked, and despite numerous times of telling us that they (upper management) were resolving the issues, it all continued. The only reason I stayed so long was because I needed the money to be able to move. Finally my bf said: “just quit, we will figure it out. This isn’t good for your mental health” and I did. Best decision I ever made and will never go back to working for that supermarket chain again.
i've worked with lots of people who were.. unsavory. for the most part, people leave me alone, because i'm easy to forget about and ignore, but people really try to rub you the wrong way in subtle ways. i can say from experience, it doesn't matter what you do or how good you are, there will always be people who have issues with you. my whole work ethic is to keep to myself and to do as adequate a job as possible (i work in a factory, so doing the best job i could do would only make it so they give me even more work to do lol so i'm not gonna do that, but then no one else does either) so as not to step on people's toes, and people STILL end up having issues with me. i don't even know why. i've never interacted with them, let alone done anything to them. some people are just bad people
I just left a job at a pet store (one of the best in Sydney) and manager was both very nice and kind but a super micromanager and passive aggressive and would say threatening things but of course if you ever brought it up with her, she would deny it and probably say that you misinterpreted what she said. She is the owner/manager and so would never give anyone else full reign. Even after a week of her having an emergency and not being at work, I took charge to the best of my abilities and training/experience and when I told her I had found a new job as a manger, she asked if I had the ability to manage staff and make decisions. What else did she think I did when she was away?
Hey em I was going to ask you if you could make a rabbit care video thank you. Tons of love from Chicago
Some people, like Veronica, need to find solitary work.
I used to work at a large insurance company where I would input new applications into the computer, among other things. I worked with two other ladies: "Debbie", who was a sweetheart, and "Cora" who was not. You see, "Cora" had been in that same entry-level position for close to twenty years. She never advanced, which probably had a lot to do with her work ethic (let's just say that she spent most of her day gossiping with other coworkers and reading magazines from the pile several feet high she kept on her desk). But Cora had set herself up as the queen bee of this department. That was fine by Debbie, but not so much with me. I was always pleasant to her, but I absolutely refused to let her bully me around. She *hated* this. Like Veronica, she'd go to our supervisor and make up stories. One of the worst involved when I would take the checks to accounting in the morning; the accounting department was right beside the company store, so *as Cora knew* I would take my 15 minute morning break at that time and often duck into the store to buy a soda or peanuts something. She *knew* that I was doing that, and she *knew* that I had every right to do it, but she *still* told our supervisor that I was taking too long coming back from delivering the checks. I defended myself and told the supervisor what I was doing, and his response was that I needed to just make sure I didn't drag my feet and brushed it under the table. Come annual review time, that incident meant that I didn't get nearly as high of a raise as I should have. I was thinking about going to school to become an underwriter, but after that decided that insurance wasn't the place for me. Especially working for a company that would let Cora bully people around (like Veronica, our supervisors knew exactly what kind of person Cora was) and still take her side just because she had seniority. I quit, and haven't looked back since. I was making great money and had great benefits, but money and benefits isn't everything. I've been working for the same company now for the 11 years since, and now make more money than I did at that insurance company.
Man I love your videos Em 😁😁
I used to work in a zoo that some zookeepers used to use shock poles on the animals because they didnt know how to handle the animals.
I just found your channel and I don’t know why I’m watching haha I don’t have any interesting pets... I don’t watch any pet channels... this is weird! Nice change to the content I usually watch. My grandpa is a zoologist specifically studies snails. He actually discovered a new species and named it after my grandma, I’m sure she appreciated that romantic gesture a lot lol. Anyway. Can’t stop watching!! What!
Your Veronica reminds me of my step-mom, she loved to manipulate. It sounds to me that she was so afraid of people knowing she was drinking on the job that she pushed people away before they'd ever get the chance to find out. Her seniority would have made it hard to fire her EXCEPT if they had evidence of her being intoxicated while working.
I think the woman u were talking about who wanted the *Top Boss* to get the donkeys (the rumor one) was Veronica. It would explain a lot of things
LPT: Don't trust gates, and definitely not supervisors' instructions who don't usually go near said gates.
I had a wonderful experience during my first week of a new job. It was my first shift actually doing the job instead of just shadowing so I was still under supervision. The first thing in the morning the supervisor told me I had to go open the very big industrial gates, so I did just that and returned to the office. The supervisor then told me that I had opened one set the wrong way, and told me I must go out and open them the other way, which I was pretty sure was the wrong way. Again, I went out to these gates even though I knew I did it right *initially but* because it's my supervisor, it's my first week, and all that nonsense.. turns out I was right, the gate didn't want to open the wrong way so as I was opening it it nearly broke my arm. I of course let go of the damn gate that was trying to break my arm, unfortunately right after that the wind gusted resulting in the gate running me over from behind forcing me onto my hands and knees, my toes touched my shin. It didn't break my foot/ankle/leg, just gave me significant soft tissue damage, which I later found out was the worst possible outcome. I ended up with the "Suicide Syndrome", CRPS, and that awful old bitch of a supervisor tried to always make me walk everywhere.. Safe to say she made my life an absolute misery since now I'm permanently disabled and she compounded my injuries.
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Emzotic
Yeah you've probably seen my name so many times haha 😅
That One Weird Girl I SEE YOU!!
Wow, I'm definitely not able to work with people (zookeeper clearly isn't the job for me) but that sounds like straight up narcissism to me. That's so awful that she got away with all that.
You were honestly so nice. If I had been treated like that I would have gone to World War 3 with her, recording all the things she says to me, compiling a full on notebook jotting down the dates and time. If she's going to take pictures and falsely accuse me of not doing my job properly, she was going to get hell from me. If I've tried my best to be professional and civil for some time and it's not working out, after a certain line is crossed that person would get it.
@8:40 - I hate how people will judge when they first see you. I understand that people come up with their perception of someone within the first three or so minutes of meeting someone for the first time. But you were still in that interview phase. And no matter where you apply, dressing up for an interview is part of the experience. On my first interview for vet tech, I dressed nice. It had no bearing on whether or not I could do the job. It just showed that I cleaned up nicely.
my dad is gonna try and get me into a zoo volunteeringly one day a week and i really hope this works out anf if it does, hoping for payment when i work more often during school breaks. wish me luck, i guess
Wow! That was very rude of “Veronica”. I have a a kinda similar experience happening right now. I just got a snake (I meet you at the meet and greet at Herps Conroe the same day) And everyone says I can’t handle it, I am only 10. My snake is having trouble eating right now, (Advice please btw?) and my parents are blaming it on me. My parents love on him and say “we” “WE” Have the best snake, but when I mentioned him not doing well they both said “Oh well too bad, it’s not our fault if “YOUR” snake dies.” It’s aggravates me so much! Basically they think I can’t do it and blame everything on me.. :/
It’s been my dream to become a zookeeper for years so I’ll try to follow my dreams :)
My first job was as a housekeeper at a hotel and my manager was a nasty lady who always went after me because the rest of the housekeepers were older than her and had been working there for years. She would inspect their rooms and notice things /they/ weren't doing right then yell at /me/ about how "we" weren't cleaning the tubs right or "we" weren't vacuuming the floors well enough (mind you, there were 6 of us and only one weak vacuum, but they never bought new ones in the year I was working there despite knowing this). I had a feeling this was what she was doing but it was confirmed one day when she came into my room and reamed me for 10 minutes about how I hadn't cleaned my tub well enough just to later come back and apologize saying, "Your tub looked fine, but I can't only correct them or they'll think i'm just targeting them." Excuse me what??
On top of that one of the housekeepers who had been working there for years was known to cut corners and halfass her rooms then leave early bragging about how quickly she got her work done, even the managers and owner would joke about how how lazy she was. Yet the rest of us were just expected to go into her rooms behind her and finish her work for her despite the fact we had a set time limit to finish our own rooms. They would literally kick me out in the middle of cleaning a room if I hit 40 hours and make the other women pick up my things for me. The last straw was when they worked me for 9 days straight even though it was supposed to be my turn to have the weekend off, then when I asked when I was going to get my days off the manager got an attitude with me and replied "If you don't want to work why don't you just quit?" So I did. Didn't show up the next day.
I had some shitty hyper liberal managers that fired me because i ate some food that they were going to throw away and they heard me curse a few times.
Anthony Mayor That is CRAZY??!!!
@@Emzotic making meh burritos at 20 mph sucks anyways.☹
Sorry for rambling on in my comment below, it just really helped getting that off my chest!! I love your videos and they always make me smile in spite of the issues I face at work. #CreatureCrew 💖💖!!
I work in a target based sales environment, and there's this one co-worker of mine, who refuses to get along with me, makes my job 100 times harder by making me look incompetent in front of customers and has made me cry on more than one occasion. The reason this person refuses to get along with me? I once went to my manager, after they had been sniping sales off of me, after I had already interacted with a customer, or by giving me busybody work they were meant to be completing, in order to have all the customers to themself. And then, when my manager at the time asked them about this, they tried to flip it round on me, saying I was doing that to them too, which I wasn't. So ever since then, they're had it in for me and make my life at work hell, to the point where I don't even want to go in. Now, I will just say, I am a female and this person is a male, who I feel is incredibly sexist, as he does not treat his male co-workers in this way at all, yet with every female co-worker I've seen him interact with, he has treated them very badly and as if they're incompetent. So... Yeah, I'm dealing with that right now, and it's very difficult, as I know I'm a very intelligent individual, not to toot my own horn or anything, and to be bullied and talked down to in this manner is very disheartening. It makes me question my actions heavily, when I don't need to. I wish I had the safety of being able to quit, like you did, but I actually really enjoy what I do, but I also am currently living paycheck to paycheck. Hopefully one day I can move on from sales to do my dream job; Voice Acting, but until then, I have to work with a bully...
Totally been there. She was evil and turned everyone against me even tho I was the senior employee. Went on vacation and she spread rumors about me and when I came back I was not welcome. Shortly after that I had to take time off because my mom died and decided life was to short to deal with that and quit. After I left 3 days later she was fired.
I have 5 budgies and I adore them so when I get older I want to be a avian vet
I had to in a job, this woman just HATED me for no reason. I had someone tell me that they were thankful for me because she’d yell at me vs yelling at them. I was like 😒
You know, I think you make excellent videos, and you are kind and beautiful on camera, but I just can't get over knowing that off camera, you post (or posted) such ugly, cruel comments about other Pet UA-camrs. I don't care why you did it; I have mental health issues as well, and that doesn't excuse or forgive that level of cruelty. Maybe other people have forgiven you, but I can't forget that kind of bizarre, extreme level of meanness. It's sad, because your content is good, but in the end, the character of the person behind the creation matters more.
Thalia Korbin You should care why. Because context matters, in every case.
Thalia Korbin I totally understand that. I haven’t addressed this publicly yet because when I do it has to be genuine and in order for it to be genuine I have to understand a few things myself. I’ve been talking off camera to a few people involved and for the moment we are keeping discussions off the internet. I can’t say anymore right now but there is a lot more to that story than what is seen. It’s such a darkness in so many ways but I hope you’ll still be around to hear what I have to say on that chapter when I/we are ready. There’s still work to be done. I’m sorry for any disappointment, confusion and hurt. I carry it every day too and I’m working through understanding x
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I want to have an interactive career with animals when I get older, but I’m not sure what I want to do. There are a lot of options, but I don’t know what the best one for me is. I would appreciate it if someone could tell me about an animal career they really liked or didn’t like
I got a job in a dirty, dusty, cold warehouse when i was 27, the 40 odd year old superviser hated me because i refused to style my hair, wear make up, get my nails done or wear ugg boots while at work like her and the other girls, i showed up in practical clothes, steel toe cap boots with my hair tied back and she tried to make my life hell. I ended up telling her that she was a small fish in a big pond and there's a bloody good reason I've been with my husband for 6 years (and have been for the last 10 years) and she's single, i was a better person looking like trash than her trying to look her best. I left a week later but telling her felt reeeaaallly good.
I feel you on the vile co-workers. I Housekeeped in a hospital for five years. My co-worker that came in on 2nd shift after me was horrid. And the shift supervisor was just as vile, I gave up 5 years at a job I fairly enjoyed (not my dream job but had it’s perks) because I was on the verge of killing myself. The 2 became so toxic I wasn’t sleeping through the night, having anxiety attacks on the job, and losing my hair. They accused me of not doing my job, mind you, there are cameras and logs,as well as, clinical staff that would become verbal if I wasn’t completing my task. The 2nd shift cunt Housekeeper would Doctor my log to make it look like I didn’t do something or my time wasn’t accounted for. I went to a Manager asking to be removed from the area that I didn’t feel comfortable with the Shift Supervisor, I got the run-around. “Give him time to find someone to replace me in that area” etc... After months I finally got tired of it and put in my 2 weeks and the whole issue got turned around and pinned on me. I wish I would have took another shift supervisor’s advice and went to Human Resources where it would have been documented but instead I thought the Manager I turned to was going to fix the issue. Unfortunately, I am going back after my 8 months break because I haven’t found a higher paying job, I’m scared and very anxious. I was hoping I would never have to return but I need to care for my cats and pay my bills.
When I was studying zoology there was another student who was just infuriating to work with.. my place of study had its own zoo so we'd work there once a week for the full day... She wouldn't do anything and would just play on her phone or take photos of the animals and leave everyone in our groups to do the work for her... She wouldn't get her self dirty and would outright refuse to change substrate because of excrement... The only thing she would do was hold the and hand feed the birds while we cleaned and we arranged and built up there enclosures... It always baffled me that she wouldn't do anything because everyone was there to learn to do zoo keeping and zoo management.