Not a place to build your career - NSC Partner Petco Employee Review

2.0
Jun 21, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Campus is nice. Dogs are nice. People I work with are nice

Cons

Work-life balance does not exist here! Some departments enter at 9 and leave at 4:30, but if you are in private brand, you can forget it. We have worked too hard and, if you try to tell management, they simply say "I need you to do more with less" or some other line that HR has given them. There is no responsibility and many blame others. They even force meetings where we have to go in and explain / apologize to our co-workers if we fall behind. It's not about work together to fix a problem, it's about having the vice president look down on us and the partners try to avoid guilt because they all are afraid around the VP. There is CONSTANT changes that happens in strategy, priorities, work and expectations that cause problems in the timeline and nobody says anything because the fears the VP, while adding tons of extra work . If you like ownership of your work and recognition, go to different company, because EVERY decision you make will go through several layers of people and will be question or even mocked by the vice president. This is not a pleasant environment to work with, and the occasional "party" does not really help corporate morale.

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Cons

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2.0
Jul 2, 2026
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Pros

friendly store managers usually good discounts nostalgic

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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