Great way to acquire grooming training/education while getting paid! - Pet Groomer PetSmart Employee Review

4.0
Jan 20, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

50% commission once you finish your "internship", they send you to grooming academy (and comp gas or put you in a hotel, depending on your personal situation), and by being full time you get some pretty good benefits. Transferring is fairly easy as long as you're a reliable employee. There is a vet (Banfield) at most locations, so when the worst happens they can get seen immediately.

Cons

You work around the same few women 40 hours a week in a fairly small room. It will get catty. Management varies depending on your location. Old dogs may die during grooming and your clients will pass away eventually, and every groomer cuts a dog at some point. You deal with a lot of poop/pee. While the compensation CAN be very good (one groomer makes $75k a year) this is not the type of job that you want to do for the money.

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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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