Petco reviews

Working in a pet store is dirty and smelly. Cleaning out the dead fish, cleaning out the dusty and pungent wastes from small animals, and taking out 50lb or more trash cans filled with soiled litter or trash. Excessive breaks taken by managers. Excessive smoke breaks from managers, who come in smelling of cigarette smoke. Managers who sit and chat in the office while you are the only one on the floor checking customers out or helping customers. This makes you feel frustrated because they are laughing or telling jokes in the office while you are working. Not a great way to boost morale. Load comes late, and we have to stay past our shift to receive load. Lack of respect for workers, you get the feeling you have been there for a week, even though you have worked there for much longer.

There is no support from anyone starting with the district managers and going up. If you have a complaint about someone you are working with, they will disregard it if they are friends with that person outside of work. There are many friendships among various levels of management that interfere with judgement. I saw a district manager give someone a store to manage even after several associates complained that the person was inadequate. The D.M. did so because he was buddies with the woman, possibly more. The company will promise to interview you for a promotion, but will not keep their word, and loss prevention is useless. They do not help you prevent theft in the least which then impacts the stores performance which you get blamed for. Human resources is a joke as well, when conducting an investigation, they will not interview key witnesses and will just interview whoever is working the day they show up to investigate. All in all, if you want to help customers while getting no support from superiors, go for it. But if you want to be respected and acknowledged, go to Petsmart.