lauren fischer
Posted : 1/27/2008 4:13:56 PM
shelterdogs- have they gotten back to you yet? usually the grooming manager will have the most say in who gets into the shop. i do hope you get and if you dont, you can always keep a relationship with the grooming manager and tell her you would still be interested if a position opened up in a few months (which it likely will).
pomeranian <3, wow, how i wish i had been following this thread when you first started posting. first off i have to say that in your first post when you described your own petco experiance, you did something many pet owners do (and most pomeranian owners actually). there is no typical pomeranian trim. if you tell someone to do "whatever poms get" and leave the instructions at that, then yes you will probably get a short lion clip (which is im sure what you got) b/c that is usually what people want with these dogs. they dont get haircuts, so there is no style specifically for them. you can put full blame on the groomer when you didnt exactly tell her anything specific that you wanted.
and also, until you have traveled to every petco, and ever petsmart store in the country, how can you even compare the 2? i understand maybe your store may not be run as well, but that certainly doesnt reflect the whole chain. im sure it shocks you to know that at my local petsmart, the whole grooming department was fired recently b/c they didnt have a dog properly secured to a table, he ran out the door, into oncoming traffic, got hit and died. not one of the groomers or bathers would say who was at fault, so they all were canned. should i boycott the whole company b/c one store slipped through the cracks? and i would say that experiance is a heck of a lot worse than your dog getting the wrong haircut.
you also mentioned what the petsmart groomers said to you, and that is one hundred percent unprofessional and actually goes against any company like petsmarts guidelines. why would you think anything good about a department that sits around and throws the competition under the bus? and of course they are going to agree with you, they want your business. personally i would find them catty and would not want to be around them long enough to explain what i wanted done to my dog. and maybe next time you post about that sign you keep talking about, you might want to actually read it. for i worked there for a year and saw that sign everyday, and it says no experiance necessary b/c if you want to be a bather, you get trained there (and you arent allowed to even touch scissors or clippers while being a bather), and if you have no experiance and want to be a groomer they automatically put you in as a bather for a few months until you are ready for school, then you are trained through their school (about 3 months of schooling), and only then you can groom (and the first few months of being paid as a groomer are spent doing shave downs, thats it). you have no idea how things are really run at each store. i highly doubt the petsmart employees you speak of went over policies with you, b/c that is also against corporate rules. i worked for petco, and i know many who work at petsmart, in grooming and in the store and i can tell you that policies are pretty much the same, especially for grooming.
i understand you may have had a bad experiance at one particular store, but that really doesnt give you the expertise or information to say all petcos are bad. all it does is make you sound terribly ignorant and judgemental, especially in a situation i already explained as very minor, and kind of your own fault. as a person who worked in a petco grooming salon, and worked in a great store, i can tell you are 100 percent wrong