My rant is, my mum picks me up from placement, as its like a 2 hour bus journey. Very rarely am I out bang on time, on a good day and its never an issue, because she sort of expects it. 

So in placement today at about 5.30pm (I was due to finish at 7pm) a whelping bitch came in. She’d been struggling to give birth for a good few hours, so after some injections etc still didn’t work, the vet decided to perform a caesarian section. Being short staffed and having the day from hell made this all the worse. But the pups were born, all healthy and happy and they went home with their mum later on. 

Obviously a caesarian is an emergency situation, which obviously put everything else back and only having one vet doing consults held us up. Then there’s operation clean up after the op as well as normal housekeeping and cashing up. So when I went out to the car 45mins late, before I could even apologise for being late my mum bit my head off. I explained the situation and she still kept ranting at me. She kept saying I should have told her I’d be late out. I’m sorry, I must have misplaced my fucking crystal ball! How was I meant to know an emergency would come in?? How am I meant to know how long it’d be til I was finished? She knows that this isn’t the kind of job that you can clock out bang on time every night, so I don’t know why she’s so pissed. Then she started banging on about how I don’t get paid and its not my ‘job’ but I can’t just leave in that situation when there is only one qualified vet nurse in and one 1st year student with very little experience. I know its not my job and technically isn’t my problem, but my assessor has done so much for me, I would never just leave her with all that shit to deal with. And I don’t get how my mum can’t understand this. Its not like it happens often, I’m normally out 5-10mins after I’m due to finish. I really don’t know why she fucking blew up at me!

Sorry, pointless post but had to get it out!! 

She’s apologised now and we’re all good, but I’m still fucking raging, esp after the day I’ve had!