Pros
- Get to work with animals - If you suck up enough you can be promoted a decent way up the ladder without a degree - Interacting with like minded customers
Cons
- Management doesn't really care about the well being of the animals that they sell and I have been to multiple stores around the state. Our store was the second highest selling store in the state and was visited by the CEO for our work. Almost all attention is to the dog section and a little to the cat section as those are the parts of the store that make the most money. They don't train employees so the advice you get from one store will be different than another. Luckily I had fish tanks and other animals that I had extensively researched for best quality of life so I was able to give proper advice to customers. Management only cares about policy even if that policy adversely affects the health of the animals, especially the reptiles. - Customers are for the most part ok but you get a good amount of entitled, rude people but that's any retail/food store. Pet retail customers are their own breed though (no pun intended) - Store managers are just run of the mill people with bachelors in business. I get that at the end of the day it is still a store but how do they entrust someone who worked at Macy's for 10 years to walk into a pet store and be able to make the right decisions regarding animal care?
