Demanding of your time, with mediocere pay. - Retail Sales Associate PetSmart Employee Review

2.0
Oct 19, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

You can work with animals on a minimal level, you can build social skills by talking to customers regularly.

Cons

You'll more often than not be stuck with a schedule that leaves little to no time for personal matters, even as a part-time associate. You will barely be taught anything about petcare of the animals being sold, and will be expected to do your own research. Depending on the location, you may be forced to sell pets to homes that you know will abuse and/or kill said pets. You will recieve no benefits as a part-timer, and there is little chance of upward progression. You will be exploited for your generosity, and asked to take on additional task and/or shifts constantly with no compensation.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jul 9, 2026
Recommend
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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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