Love my job, hate the pay - Store Leader Petco Employee Review

5.0
Jan 5, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

I get to work with animals and an amazing team doing wonderful things to help save animals lives every single day.

Cons

I've always known I was underpaid, but never by how much. Until last week. Our new CEO asked all partners to do a review here, where I learned I make $10k under what I should. As one of his top 20 ranking Store Leaders, this is extremely disheartening to learn and I wish I could undo seeing that.

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Petco Response
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First off, let us thank you (and congratulate you!) on your impressive tenure! We're so happy to have you as a member of our Petco family! We want you to know we appreciate your review and everything you've shared with us has been taken under advisement. Thank you, again!

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