Terrible work conditions, treatment, stupid pointless rules. - Professional Bather PetSmart Employee Review

2.0
Aug 12, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

The dogs, loved working with them. Most coworkers were nice and helpful. Employee discount was nice. Liked being able to wash my dog there for free.

Cons

Schedules change without notice. Rude management, doesn't want to work with employees. No cooling system in the pet salon. Old equipment. Old, useless brushes and scissors for the bathers, groomer must pay for their own supplies. Groomers have to pay for their own certification. Lots of rules that were good for safety but lots of silly rules just in place to flex muscle of management. Catty work enviorment with all the ladies in the salon.

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Cons

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Pros

The staff care a lot and try their hardest but it leads to burn out and being taken advantage of by a company the does not care about YOU.

Cons

Poor management. No work life balance. Bad scheduling. Bad pay. No communication. Leads expected to work more than 10 hours a day during high volume periods, Be responsible for too many things. You run around like a chicken with it's head chopped off the whole time you're at work. Staff are snippy, and rude. A few are okay. Company has you working bare bones, and does not care. Pet parent's are weird, and I don't think have realistic expectations that the boarding facility is more like dropping your dog off at a dog shelter for a week while you go on vacation than a "fun time" for your dog. Dogs get fed, watered, pottied. If that is all you care about, then use the PetHotel. If you want your dog to have fun, and be out of a stressful environment (few dogs do well with constant barking and noise all day, plus being stuck in a cement run, thrown in with a bunch of other dogs who have never been properly socialized) just do in home boarding. I would never board my dog at a place like this.

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