I worked for Petco
But no longer do. It's not only that the employees don't take care of the animal habitats but management doesn't give a **** either...about both the employees or the animals unless they're getting walked by the district manager. Then they have an employee spend about 1 to 2 whole days doing nothing but cleaning it out and setting it back up good for the walk and then once the walk is done then it's back to doing it half assed, if at all until the next walk. I was the only one that ever tried doing things by the book as well as taking the initiative but eventually got tired of doing almost everything by myself and no one helping and no one ever takes your advice or training, I was the oldest employee up to that point with the most authority, to heart. I was normally in charge of the aquatics department and had that place running like it's own store, as if it was separate to Petco. Whenever I had 2 or 3 days off straight I would be scared to come back to it because no one bothered to keep an eye on the tanks and their levels, do stiff checks which wasn't often since I took care of it well, when we received fish they would do it wrong and/or place them in the incorrect tank which would take hours to put them in the right one. No one knew about fish or anything so I would have customer complaints about not being told if that fish needed specific water levels or fish compatabilities, and a lot more. Again, reason for this is management. I've heard from various managers how they hate aquatics and how it's the one department that gives them the most headache. What was funny how every day I would hear out of the store manager's mouth "man, the store looks like ****...but aquatics looks awesome." I was like well, if you actually stationed an employee in each section for them to only maintain that one department, everything would look awesome. But to no avail. I came back some time after I quit to get some fish I ordered and in each tank there was an obscene number of fish floating in each tank. Some lights weren't even on and large amount of algae. The department was a mess, products all over the place. But it's not just there...it's almost every store in the district here in Miami save but one. lol, we've even had ferrets stolen on 2 or 3 occasions.
But no longer do. It's not only that the employees don't take care of the animal habitats but management doesn't give a **** either...about both the employees or the animals unless they're getting walked by the district manager. Then they have an employee spend about 1 to 2 whole days doing nothing but cleaning it out and setting it back up good for the walk and then once the walk is done then it's back to doing it half assed, if at all until the next walk. I was the only one that ever tried doing things by the book as well as taking the initiative but eventually got tired of doing almost everything by myself and no one helping and no one ever takes your advice or training, I was the oldest employee up to that point with the most authority, to heart. I was normally in charge of the aquatics department and had that place running like it's own store, as if it was separate to Petco. Whenever I had 2 or 3 days off straight I would be scared to come back to it because no one bothered to keep an eye on the tanks and their levels, do stiff checks which wasn't often since I took care of it well, when we received fish they would do it wrong and/or place them in the incorrect tank which would take hours to put them in the right one. No one knew about fish or anything so I would have customer complaints about not being told if that fish needed specific water levels or fish compatabilities, and a lot more. Again, reason for this is management. I've heard from various managers how they hate aquatics and how it's the one department that gives them the most headache. What was funny how every day I would hear out of the store manager's mouth "man, the store looks like ****...but aquatics looks awesome." I was like well, if you actually stationed an employee in each section for them to only maintain that one department, everything would look awesome. But to no avail. I came back some time after I quit to get some fish I ordered and in each tank there was an obscene number of fish floating in each tank. Some lights weren't even on and large amount of algae. The department was a mess, products all over the place. But it's not just there...it's almost every store in the district here in Miami save but one. lol, we've even had ferrets stolen on 2 or 3 occasions.
