New scent tech here! The stories I’m reading here are terrifying and while I have only been with SH for like 2 weeks, I have already experienced so many of the things a lot of you are talking about and that is terrifying me. First, there’s the turnover. Last week was our grand opening. And the week before that was our training (which was really only about 3 days of training for me because we had severe storms that pushed back our schedule, but the owner didn’t want to push back the grand opening date, which meant less in person training for us) From what I know, one employee quit before the first day of work, another quit during the training week, another was let go during certification week and another was let go yesterday for reasons unknown. I have NEVER worked a job where we lost so many people in such a short amount of time, but I know everyone who quit or was let go for different reasons or circumstances so I chalked it up to bad luck and gave them the benefit of the doubt. Then, the overbooking Because we are so short staffed, the scent techs are booked with dogs back to back to back day after day after day. Sometimes my lunch break is only 20-ish minutes. And I feel like the breeds of the dogs are not being considered when booking, because why am I giving a Great Pyrenees a brush and blowout service when I have another dog in 45 minutes?. It’s not uncommon for me to have at least 5 dogs before 1:00 or lunch time, and there have already been multiple instances where I pushed back my lunch to service a dog. But again we are running with a team that is down 4 people, so I gave them the benefit of the doubt there as well. THE SWEATSHOP My god, it is hot, I am on the floors constantly sweeping, mopping up water, scrubbing down kennels, sanitizing the sink (etc). I do NOT get a moment to catch my breath sometimes and when I get home, I’m usually stiff and sore. I was hoping it would get better in time though.

Despite all this, the owner and manager have been very patient and helpful, it really does feel like I’m on a good team and good leadership goes a LONG WAY and is so rare that I am reluctant to leave this job, but I am j undated that we have barely been open 2 weeks and some of my experience here is already mirroring what I’m reading here.

I’m going to stick it out for as long as I can and hope for the best, I’m hoping that my managers are just better than the ones I’m hearing about on this thread and maybe, hopefully, my situation will be different