More DM store visits. - Team Lead/Fish Specialist Petco Employee Review

2.0
Jun 15, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The best part is Getting to play with all the animals and the employee discount. If your manager trains you correctly you learn a lot about the animals. I unfortunately had to learn from trial and error and hounding down my managers with questions.

Cons

Horrible management, they were very immature and many should not have been promoted. At one time there were 5 team leads and 3 associates, this lead to a lot of head butting. The GM had favorites wich lead to poor issue resolving because she did not want to offend anyone. They are CHEAP and will rip you off. I worked a 12 hour shift that ended at 3am, but because I did not work that day I did not recieve overtime because the clock resets at midnight. They would not compensate me!

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Cons

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Pros

- Wonderful people under the Sr. Director level - Dogs in the office - Brand name carries weight on your resume

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 - Sexism 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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