Great management and fun job but horrible company + pay - Pet Care Specialist PetSmart Employee Review

1.0
Mar 11, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Working with animals. Fun environment. Fun staff and regulars. Educational and rewarding when working in pet-care. You get to spend your day working with and around animals every day. Discounts on products.

Cons

Horrible pay and horrible raises. I never felt like I was payed right for the amount of work and care I put into the job. You are absolutely taken advantage of, especially if you become a team leader or key holder. 25 cent raise when becoming team leader with manager duties???? The company has bad animal standards and practices. Especially the breeders they chose for their animals. Bad CEO and HR department.

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Cons

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1.0
Jul 9, 2026
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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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