Management makes a difference! - Customer Engagement Leader/Petcare Manager PetSmart Employee Review

4.0
Feb 12, 2019
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Pros

I love getting to expand my knowledge and use it everyday to help pet parents. The customers are usually very upbeat and friendly. The company as a whole really cares about the employees, customers and pets. I never feel like I have a strict budget for providing proper care for our pets. They are very well taken care of in my store. Fun atmosphere and our team is like family. Bonuses are really good if you work at a high performing store.

Cons

There’s not enough management for store leaders. They can honestly treat associates however they want and can basically get away with whatever they want. It really makes a huge difference going from a wonderful, caring manager, to one who only cares about the numbers and will push anyone out of the way to achieve them. There’s also not enough hours given to staff the store appropriately and allow things to actually get done the way they are meant to be done. There’s constant pressure to get more and more done with no extra help. New procedures will be pushed out that are supposed to “save time” but they never actually do but hours are cut anyways. Health insurance is ridiculously expensive but has fairly decent coverage.

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PetSmart Response
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That's wonderful to hear you enjoy working with pets and pet parents, the bonuses and the store atmosphere! I'm sorry to here you don't feel supported by management. We want to ensure we're always improving, so hearing from the team directly is helpful. Please know you can always contact the CareSmart line at 1-800-738-4693, as well, with questions or comments. Thank you, again!

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