Pros
As a dog groomer, you can make a lot of money with petsmart, enough to certainly live on. If your in a good salon with a good team, you will have a blast. My salon was a well oiled machine, we all loved each other and ran the salon very organized, although once and while you encounter someone who is not supposed to be a part of team and it can make life in the salon very frustrating. You get to work directly with the pets and it's very rewarding.
Cons
Petsmart runs the grooming salon as if it is a meant to be retail (long, late hours, weekends, must meet a sales plan for the day/week) , obviously it is set in a retail store, but grooming is not meant to feel like a job your dreadin to go to. Most of the managers are not properly trained on how to effectively speak to their employees, they usually project all of their problems with sales and even personal problems onto all of their employees, making I very difficult to be comfortable during a work shift. The managers seem to not understand that we are human and we have lIves outside of petsmart, especially when you have children. (working as a groomer at petsmart is not for someone with children at all unless you don't want to see you children...) Calling in for a medical emergency for your child is literally a battle. I was once written up for having to leave my shift 2 hours early for a real medical emergency for my infant... Most managers play favorites and especially if you are in the salon, the store manager will walk by and see you sit down for 2 minutes after being stressed out all day with all your dog's and never getting a break, will come in and make you work on the floor because we aren't allowed to take breaks.