Unrealistic expectations on a shoestring budget... - Anonymous employee Petco Employee Review

1.0
Sep 10, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Working with the animals can be fun. Seeing the pets that come in is good. PTO is generous - if you can last at least a year.

Cons

Payroll sucks - and nobody wants to acknowledge it, yet they keep piling on one stupid project after another. They want 'meaningfull engagements' with the customers - yet you are one of only 2 or 3 people working the entire store, while trying to complete a multitude of tasks. Great training tools (MLC) - yet no hours to utilize them... They want you to sell dogtraining classes - but supply no support to execute the classes ($400+ in dt sales = 1 hour of payroll for 6 weeks, $360 - 3 classes sold - gets you nothing to conduct them.)

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Pros

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Cons

- Sr. Directors and above are largely nepotism hires rather than merit-based promotions - Leadership team is toxic and disrespectful, and that tone trickles down to other senior leaders - Gender favoritism shows up repeatedly, with women being asked to pick up the work of men without additional pay. Or men being promoted over women due to favoritism and not merit. - Nearly every employee I worked with was disengaged and functioning out of fear of layoffs rather than job satisfaction (layoffs happen multiple times a year) - The company's declining position also makes it harder to land your next role, since a recent Petco title now reads as coming from a struggling brand

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