Great Company - Anonymous employee PetSmart Employee Review

4.0
Jul 22, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Love all the positions I've held. PetSmart has taken the time to put together some great training models, employee incentives, and employee support programs.

Cons

Loooong hours. As Pet Products Mgr, I worked a minimum of 50 hours/week. Not enough payroll to support the staff needed to get everything done. Also, the actual training of new associates is very lax. You are plopped in front of a computer for two shifts then tossed into your department. I was hired into a mgt spot and was trained the same way. It's survival of the fittest if you want to work here

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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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