Loved it at first but my store manager is HORRIBLE. - Pet Care Specialist PetSmart Employee Review

1.0
Sep 9, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

-Love helping customers find the right pet for them/ solving their problems. -Good starting hourly pay. - All my associates were very very very nice and all the other managers. -Always a lot to do.

Cons

-Store manager is horrible. Outside hire and knows NOTHING about pets. -Huge hypocrite. -Its more about selling the animals that are worth the most money to anyone that walks in and wants it. Its not about the animals then its just about the money and thats not right. -Very stressful and fast passed environment. -No matter how hard you work and how much you sell it won't ever be enough. -Managers really don't care about you or if you're doing a good job you'll only hear from them if you mess up or they want you to sell more training classes.

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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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