Petco, fun but rough - Operations Manager Petco Employee Review

4.0
Jan 27, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

You are around pets constantly which is a great thing for all the pet lovers out there. When you are in a horrible mood, you can brighten your day by taking out a conure or a ferret. The best part is really the 20 percent discount that you recieve, which is a blessing when you have tons of animals.

Cons

The payroll is extremely limited by far where the GM and ASMs are having to do the brunt of all the work. Being the highest paid stocker sounds nice in theory; however, that is also the problem...you are doing nothing but merchandise. There's not really a such thing as management when you are an assistant because you are constantly doing the "helps' " work.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Forced to stay short staffed. Couldn't take proper breaks most days as a closing lead unless it was during the first few hours of shift. At the time the regional manager seemed more worried about the aesthetics of the back animal rooms floor that only employees saw when we had ac issues, issues getting access to an exotic vet, and only had enough hours to have two employees working at a time most shift on most days. I only had a couple interactions but that was one of them. Could not call off sick without leaving the store scrambling to find someone to stay open. Also sold improper habitats.

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