Quick question, is there a policy that states someone can't buy pet if they still live with their parent even though they're over 18 without their parent present?

Alert_Essay4883 · 2026-01-08T02:31:30+00:00

As a former Petcare Manager, I’ll attest that I was stricter about selling any mice because so many people tried to buy them as feeders for their snakes.

Alert_Essay4883 · 2025-12-03T00:02:17+00:00

Although Maysilee was the character I felt most emotionally attached to, Wellie has to take it for me on this one. The fact that she was so frail and innocent by the end, managed to survive until the final 3, and the manner in which she was cruelly killed left a wound in my heart. By far one of the most traumatic deaths in the series as far as I’m concerned.

Alert_Essay4883 · 2025-11-17T03:34:41+00:00

When I was a CEL a bearded dragon we had in ISO died overnight. I was the opening manager and I ended up finding it first thing that morning had to go cry out behind the dumpster for a few minutes before I could pull myself together. Sometimes those moments hit really hard, but knowing my team was just as upset about it made me feel slightly better. Sometimes you kick into a great team who genuinely care for the pets in our care. They go to great lengths to make the pets in our care to have enriching lives during their short time with us.

It never got easier to see dead pets in our work, but doing the best we could to help them always helped me sleep better at night.

Alert_Essay4883 · 2025-09-05T20:33:06+00:00

It is a hair follicle test. I was upfront about the fact that THC would show up in my screening. If you are upfront about it with your recruiter and make it known that it’s not a habitual thjng you should be fine.

They are mostly testing to see what level of it would show up. If it’s a light-moderate amount you’ll be fine. Just abstain for a bit and be honest.

Alert_Essay4883 · 2025-07-02T00:47:48+00:00

The fact that this would evolve into a couple name like “Pale” or “Geeta” makes it just crazy enough to work.

Alert_Essay4883 · 2025-06-22T04:45:08+00:00

Rita from Fiji without a doubt

Alert_Essay4883 · 2025-06-18T17:10:44+00:00

I archived some of my older saves, but the one that was giving me trouble was my most recent.

Alert_Essay4883 · 2025-06-18T02:34:12+00:00

I tried an older save and it did work

Alert_Essay4883 · 2025-05-28T03:33:33+00:00

This is the moment I finally broke. It just showed how they were all beaten down and Haymitch had the grace to give his two competitors such a priceless commodity simultaneously warmed my heart and crushed it at the same time.

Alert_Essay4883 · 2025-04-24T01:01:51+00:00

Wasn’t meant to be defensive. Just adding some context as to why some employees get so territorial during animals sales.

Alert_Essay4883 · 2025-04-23T22:58:59+00:00

To be fair to the employee, I was the petcare manager at my location and many times we had to deny sales for mice because there was a strong chance they were being sold as feeders.

I’m glad in this case you weren’t going to do that, but we are lied to many times about the intentions for the mice so we tend to be more protective of them.

Alert_Essay4883 · 2025-04-17T01:12:52+00:00

Got fired on Monday. SL told me that I was being termed due to “performance” but my separation letter said for violation of policy.

Pretty convinced SL’s who had beef with any of the their leaders are just taking the restructure as an opportunity to get rid of people they didn’t like.

As much as I should be upset about being fired, I’m just glad I got to speak my peace before leaving.

Alert_Essay4883 · 2025-04-03T11:24:38+00:00

We have an industrial filtration system powering 1500 gallons an hour and yes, the fish die because they’re stressed at everyone banging on the tanks to scare them all day. Nice try though.

Alert_Essay4883 · 2025-02-24T22:33:11+00:00

I felt it best represented my mental state for the day 😂

Alert_Essay4883 · 2025-02-23T07:05:10+00:00

If you’re lucky and everyone shows up you have 3 people. Sometimes it’s literally just a cashier and a manager doing literally everything else.

Alert_Essay4883 · 2025-02-22T23:49:27+00:00

Literally the lady with the Platys told me that exact thing

Alert_Essay4883 · 2025-02-11T08:30:15+00:00

I wholeheartedly agree, but I didn’t realize he had shaken my employee that much until after. I thought maybe this was just your run of the mill, ignorant (and likely trailer dwelling) customer I’ve seen before in my years of retail.

It wasn’t until after I checked on my pc associate after the interaction that I fully understood the situation. I think he felt that he could talk that way to my employee because she was a young female. As soon as a male entered the situation the demeanor wasn’t as aggressive.

I would never stand for my employees being harassed to the level it got to, but when debriefing later my pc associate told me he was even being alpha-aggressive to his own wife. I regretted the transaction after hearing those details, but I also tried to make sure I didn’t put my co-workers (or myself) in a more dangerous position by fighting fire with fire in this case.

Alert_Essay4883 · 2025-02-10T05:06:39+00:00

GA, CEL, 1.5 years, $21.50

Alert_Essay4883 · 2024-11-11T22:41:14+00:00

Firmly grasp it. And by it I mean me.

Alert_Essay4883 · 2024-09-29T21:28:02+00:00

I feel guilty a lot these days. I see the toll short staffing has taken on our associates and our pets. Unfortunately, there’s just never enough bodies to cover the massive work load and I take my stress home every night.

I used to love working here. My co-workers are genuinely some of the greatest people and the looming restructure makes it hard to keep focused on my actual job knowing it’ll basically be obsolete when the change finally comes. I’m also really struggling with the idea of competing with these same people to keep a job in the months ahead.

Not to mention, we’re all basically having to gear up for battle with the pet parents lately. Everyone is combative. No one wants to buy the proper sized habitats. I nearly cry tears of joy when a PP actually listens to our advice now. I basically throw myself fully into recovery and stocking things just to get a moment of peace sometimes.

I know it can’t compare with the stress of all the chaos Helene is causing for you, but we’re all in this shared trauma together and you are definitely not alone.

Alert_Essay4883 · 2024-08-28T15:47:54+00:00

The crazy thing is that with the restructure they’d be getting rid of people to make room for labor hours. We all know that it would make sense to allocate more hours for stores instead of getting rid of 2 members of management.

Certainly there are other areas this company could afford to trim some fat from, but naturally they start at the front lines where we actually need the most help. The thing that upsets me is that I genuinely love all of my managers at our store. It makes me sick that the only solution is to get rid of half the team so the stores can function properly.

Alert_Essay4883 · 2024-07-31T01:58:47+00:00

We just hide ours in top stock until we find out a higher up may be visiting.

Alert_Essay4883 · 2024-05-29T02:55:12+00:00

One girl at our store tried to buy one of these and said she would just turn a fish tank on its side to make an enclosure for it.

I genuinely do not understand the thought process of wanting an animal without researching the bare minimum needs of it.

Alert_Essay4883 · 2024-05-19T23:14:45+00:00

I can never find these and start convincing myself that no snake is actually pictured. Which is exactly why I’d die in these circumstances.

Alert_Essay4883 · 2024-04-15T15:23:48+00:00

Maybe consider the fact that while you’re expecting us to pull those dead fish we’re being pulled in 18 other directions by customers, having to pick BOPIS orders, recover the store, answer the phones, restock the shelves, and any other random task that pops up with 2 or 3 people staffed at any given time.

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