Pros
The work being done in the trauma hospital is rewarding and important work
Cons
Reports of the problems in the trauma hospital are not exaggerations written by disgruntled former employees. Current staff is tired of the terrible leadership and toxic environment. Unless problems are addressed, AHS is going to find their trauma hospital without staff. Promoting people to leadership based solely on the fact that you've known them a long time, does not make good leaders. What it makes is entitled bullies who use their power to intimidate and threaten others, creating a very hostile work environment. Leadership plays favorites, talks down to staff, gossips behind people's backs, behave in a condescending manner and straight out insult you to your face and then threaten you with retaliation if you complain. They pick targets and relentlessly pick on these people, then defend their behavior by saying it's just their sense of humor. Humor designed to degrade and insult someone isn't humor at all, it's bullying and that type of behavior isn't appropriate at work, especially when it comes from leadership. It's not cute, it's not funny and no one is laughing. A favored employee, who is uncomfortably close with one particular manager and spends time with them outside of work, get special treatment and constant praise. Awards designed to be voted on by staff as a way of acknowledging coworkers is rigged in their favor, multiple times, while they laugh and make fun of other staff for "not getting any votes" This person gets placed on a pedestal while the rest of us are told that we need to be more like them. We watch as they, with no prior experience and minimal training, are allowed to perform delicate medical procedures just because they are a "personal" friend. Its frustrating and concerning. Lives of animals must come before leadership's feelings for someone. The trauma hospital is there to provide medical care to the valley's most vulnerable animals, not for leadership to use their position to flirt with and impress an employee by giving her preferential treatment. It's an embarrassing look for the trauma hospital and AHS as a whole. Current leadership must be dealt with if they want the trauma hospital to retain staff and continue to care for sick and injured animals.