Not all its wrapped up to be but they save lots of homeless animals. - Stocker, Cashier, Pet Care Associate, and Formerly An Manager PetSmart Employee Review

3.0
Dec 28, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

15% discount off any merchandise or services. 30% discount off any merchandise or services offered 3 or 4 times a year. information available about all the products and animals PetSmart sells if you have the drive to read it. Interaction with lots of different animals. Adoptions of homeless Dogs and Cats Opportunity to donate from your paycheck to charities. Educating Pet Parents about their animals.

Cons

Inexperienced Managers hired from outside the company. Lack of leadership and lack of recognition for a job well done from many of the hourly managers, but mostly none from the salaried Managers and district managers. Management Favortism. Rumor spreading, No confidentiality about anything , feels like in high school at times Selling Training classes pushed off on employess. No Fairness when making the store schedule. When you call out sick some Managers can be very nasty. Reveiw Process and Raises. Educate associates more consistently. Return policy. Corporate Hotline.Call, lie, complain and get a $25 PetSmart giftcard.

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Cons

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Pros

The company pushes for more and more from the bottom level employees without better pay. I worked there before the restructuring and; not much can make me cry, but working here sure did, even back then. I can’t imagine how anxiety inducing it must be to work there now. Animal welfare is a complete non-concern. The only thing that’s pushed is sell, sell, sell. It’s borderline dystopian. Bad management seems to be a common issue, not only from my experience, but many others’ as well. I worked until I was an exhausted sweaty mess to make sure everything in pet care or, when I groomed, the salon, was cleaned to perfection as expected of me (and I reiterate: “me,” because these standards were not expected of my co-workers, just me) and overall felt very unseen. The only times I did feel “seen,” was when mistakes were made. Work was treated like boot camp. A co-worker that was subtley targeting/bullying me, and even started rumors accusing me of racist remarks(!!!), was promoted and anything I reported was downplayed because they were friends with the assistant manager. Working here was an overall traumatizing experience.

Cons

Employees are expected to be work-robots

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PetSmart Response
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We’re disappointed to hear that your experience didn’t reflect what we aim to create for our associates, and we appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback. We invite you to contact the CareSmart line at 1-800-738-4693 so we can learn more and see how we can support you. Thank you.
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