PetSmart Reviews

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Limited opportunities for promotions,insufficient pay.

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Initial training was like 10 hours of reading boring information about working in the store, which I never had to do. Corporate makes lots of stupid rules which suggests these people have spent little time actually working with live animals or asking PetsHotel employees to weigh in. The main reason I hated my job, however, was that management at my store was TERRIBLE. The PetsHotel manager was vengeful and made it an extremely toxic work environment. Me and several of my co-workers developed severe anxiety issues over working at PetSmart (insomnia, chest pain, constantly on the verge of an anxiety attack, etc.) because of this individual. Her only superior at the store was the store manager, who agreed with her methods of management (pretending to be nice to get dirt on co-workers so they had reasons to write them up, not allowing employees to interact with other employees that were not on the same level as them in the store...I almost got my friend fired who had recently been promoted by mentioning an interaction we had on social media). I was so happy to leave and it's a shame that these two individuals put such a damper on what should have been a fun job taking care of people's pets. I am giving 3 stars because without my manager I would have loved my job.

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Management were not very helpful or professional at times

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Hours suck and there's a lot of standing

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Hard work and concentration required when working here. Will need to be punctual and reliable. You will need good concentration aswell.

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Personally not many cons

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Working with and caring for animals everyday means you have to be passionate about animals. Unfortunately there are always a couple employees who just don’t.
Similarly, there are customers who don’t care about the animals either, lots of people want something cute and easy, no pet is going to be easy or cheap.
Upper managements priority is not the pets, it’s making sales and keeping up appearances.
Products and enclosures we sell marketed for specific animals that are NOT appropriate living conditions for said animals.
It’s hard to get full time
Hours are limited and we are often under staffed because of it

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Competitive, small space, noise, you may get bit

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none that i can think of

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discount is low, lack of stock options since company went private