Your Store Leader makes all the difference - Customer Engagement Leader/Pet Care Manager PetSmart Employee Review

3.0
May 16, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I loved helping customers and their pets. Taking care of the animals and getting to see dogs come in every day was one of the best things about it.

Cons

Bad management is greatly rewarded. Just bad employees are rewarded. I had my first store "leader" who was an absentee who used company time to hang out at the bar. My second was so much worse. Monique Solano repeatedly destroyed good teams at multiple stores, running them into the ground, and yet she was rewarded with stores that were going well when she couldn't handle things falling apart. She was a walking disaster, but she was buddy-buddy with the district leader, so she was just handed everything she didn't deserve. It was rough. Don't expect to get rewarded for being a good employee. Be insubordinate, lazy, and love Disneyland and she'll promote you no problem. Work hard and she'll hate you.

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Cons

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1.0
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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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