It's painfully obvious how little they care - Anonymous employee PetSmart Employee Review

1.0
Aug 26, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You get to spend time with dogs and cats all day. Sometimes that's not a good thing though.

Cons

Materials and tools such as squeegees are all old, never replaced, and most of them barely work When something breaks, even something necessary like a gate, it takes many months, sometimes (usually) even a whole year to get it fixed. There is 0 consistency in hours. Pay is not worth it and pay increases are inconsequential and infrequent. There is little to no communication about changes in daily operations. Trainings and videos cover maybe 1/16th of what we actually need to know, but no one ever explains the rest. Instead the training videos cover information that isn't relevant to our job, so that's helpful. They put up cameras for customers to watch us take care of their dogs with little to no warning or consent or anything. I would prefer not to be filmed, but that doesn't matter at all to anyone in charge of course.

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Amazing space to work. Benefits great.

Cons

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1.0
Jul 9, 2026
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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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