Not Great - Grooming Assistant Petco Employee Review

2.0
Jun 24, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

You get to deal with animals all day and interact with people and their pets. The management is respectful to the employees.

Cons

No promotion opportunities, you are basically stuck where they hire you. No wage increases for for Groomers, you stay at minimum wage even after like two years. Petco is just cheap and won't give any employees a raise, it all goes to corporate where they don't even do that much, just say if we need to pick it up or not.

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Pros

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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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