Disgusting “All for me, None for you” leadership - Anonymous employee Petco Employee Review

1.0
Jan 24, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Pros? This place will darken your soul. I’ve never seen such unmitigated money-grubbing greed and lying just so people could get rich in the IPO. Truly appalling.

Cons

Where to start? Just when the company was furloughing employees last March when the COVID lock-down started, the CEO was busy handing out millions of new stock options and salary raises to his direct reports. It’s lots of manufactured video spots and canned words for the masses but no concrete actions. Millions more for the execs with little crumbs for the rank and file. These people are the antithesis of leaders in my book. Glad to be out of this horror show where you’re set up to be a serf kissing the feet of lords all day long.

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