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Avantages

Passionate employees across the business in all departments. It is great that we can have such an impact on pets and pet parents. Company initiatives are made with values in mind. Senior Leadership is aligned to company goals, which are cascaded down to teams.

Inconvénients

At times, we seem a little hesitant to change. I wish we took a few more risks.

Avantages

Animals! Base pay wasn't bad On the job training, no experience required Discounts

Inconvénients

Cleaning up pee/poop, Animals dying, Sometimes early hours, potential illness from animals if you're not careful

Avantages

good pay, fair, flexibility,

Inconvénients

the early hours and hard work of lifting some can't handle

Avantages

Fun job always surrounded by animals

Inconvénients

Co-workers can be different then other places kind of annoying

Conseils à la direction

Involve more independent work type just a little

Avantages

You get an upbeat work environment with animals. You are involved in many areas of services; pet training, grooming salon, hotel and then the merch side.

Inconvénients

A lot of corporate big wigs with different ideas on what store brand standards are. Hard to please so many different executives

Conseils à la direction

Merchandising inventory leader is a really tough role to keep filled because they are over so much in a store and I don’t think they pay enough

Avantages

Early Morning Stocker Specific: If you don't like people, there's only an hour or so period of time where you'd be interacting with customers. Getting to see and interact with animals is always nice and relaxing, and the job doesn't require much mental effort if any. You pick stuff up n' put it down, that's all there is to it; so assuming you can read and maybe occasionally count you're good to go.... PetSmart in general: I've heard the usual cliche retail horror stories about bad managers and nasty customers and all that. Thankfully, I haven't seen it (yet) though obviously mileage varies from store to store. I can't speak to the experience at every PetSmart, but generally I believe the time spent will be more enjoyable than in a normal retail setting. I've found your average "pet parent" tends to be nicer than your standard Walmart-esque customer. This also applies to co-workers as you're working with somewhat like-minded people who (hopefully) also love animals. Conclusion (what is this an essay now?): Overall it's been a pretty friendly environment and I've honestly enjoyed it. If you like animals and need a high school/beginner level part-time job that requires minimal mental aptitude I imagine you'd be hard-pressed to find a more enjoyable experience elsewhere as long as you're somewhat competent. Also, if you're a bit of an introvert like me, this is a nice way to ease yourself into being more social by interacting with people and their pets without immediately imploding. You aren't forced onto a cash register or anything like that. It's also really good exercise, so there's that if that's your thing.

Inconvénients

- Low pay - Retail (Make of that what you will) - Back pain - People who don't clean up after their pets and think employees are poop-cleaning slaves. (Seriously, what do you think those cleanup stations are for?) - (Early morning job-specific) I wake up between 1am and 2am every day now (though the early-morning drive is always nice and relaxing)

Conseils à la direction

Confucius say (probably?): High morale greatly increases efficiency, especially in stressful, hard deadline, situations. We ain't robots, though that'd be pretty neat if we were. Lucky numbers: 60, 51 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Avantages

interacting with animals and their parents, giving them treats, helping them find the best foods and care products.

Inconvénients

it takes a long time and alot of experience to change positions, i was interested in the pet care associate position but i didn't have enough experience for it.

Avantages

Meet nice people. Get to play with dogs and cats.

Inconvénients

Unrealistic expectations based on labor

Conseils à la direction

It is hard work and you will be called at odd times.