BC SPCA reviews about "employee"

High Burn out, poor management and high demand on employees to work constantly

Doesn't make nearly the impact on animals they could or should with their budget. Toxic leadership that doesn't value employees, and is the biggest reason for a mass exodus of their best people the past year. Lacks focus, follow-through and innovation.

The organization heads consistently mess up the budget, they are constantly hiring more positions for provincial office with huge salaries, but pay the people that are actually working with the animals very little. They don't replace staff in the shelters or hospitals when people quit. There is a lot of guilting employees to work harder or stay for OT to care for animals to make up for not enough staff. I think it is probably a different experience for people in roles that don't deal directly with animals.

The work can be quite challenging at times.

Low pay, constant change, larger organization management doesn't listen to front line employees

Takes more 'after hours' work than I anticipated, sometimes late night phone calls with vets or for emergencies - this might be me underestimating rather than an issue with the role. Hard to navigate union employees with delayed bargaining Feels like low compensation for the amount of work being done. Training is a bit sporadic - they put aside time in the beginning to train but then it's hard to find time once you're onboarded since there is so much to do. I feel like I don't know key things because can't find the time to train further. Encourage work life balance but this is hard to actually strike with the work. After hours events sometimes, always on call.