saleen89559
Juvie Member
So I just left my local Petco...... Yeah you know where this is going already!
I was visiting and getting prices on some bulbs today. I had Spike with me on my shoulder and a pair of older ladies asked me about him. They pet him and told me how pretty he was and all that jazz. Then one of them asked me what kind of light, hood and such she would need for her Russian tortoise. I told her to go big, with a 100 watt bulb in a housing with a dimmer. That way she could dial it down if needed and have a large temp range to work with. Her turtle was in a 55gal btw.
My local petco recently hired a new general manager and I have heard nothing but complaints about her from day 1. She was the manager of our local bath and bodyworks which she only took 2 years to run into the ground.
She walks up behind me and in a mean tone says "If you're not on my payroll you can't give anyone advice in my store". Well surely I turned around and said "who are you to tell these ladies who they can talk to? Its not my fault you have 18 employees and only 2 of them know anything about reptiles".
She got pretty hot from that I must say. Then I said, "its bad enough you give bad advice to customers, but you not knowing squat about pets as well just puts the topping on the cake. Maybe if you learned to treat your customers better and trained your employees with 'real' information on pets, then the customers wouldn't feel the need to ask other customers for help in your store"
Then I was asked to leave. The two ladies who were talking to me had about 700 bucks worth of stuff to start an aquarium in their cart and they left the cart there and left at the same time.
I was visiting and getting prices on some bulbs today. I had Spike with me on my shoulder and a pair of older ladies asked me about him. They pet him and told me how pretty he was and all that jazz. Then one of them asked me what kind of light, hood and such she would need for her Russian tortoise. I told her to go big, with a 100 watt bulb in a housing with a dimmer. That way she could dial it down if needed and have a large temp range to work with. Her turtle was in a 55gal btw.
My local petco recently hired a new general manager and I have heard nothing but complaints about her from day 1. She was the manager of our local bath and bodyworks which she only took 2 years to run into the ground.
She walks up behind me and in a mean tone says "If you're not on my payroll you can't give anyone advice in my store". Well surely I turned around and said "who are you to tell these ladies who they can talk to? Its not my fault you have 18 employees and only 2 of them know anything about reptiles".
She got pretty hot from that I must say. Then I said, "its bad enough you give bad advice to customers, but you not knowing squat about pets as well just puts the topping on the cake. Maybe if you learned to treat your customers better and trained your employees with 'real' information on pets, then the customers wouldn't feel the need to ask other customers for help in your store"
Then I was asked to leave. The two ladies who were talking to me had about 700 bucks worth of stuff to start an aquarium in their cart and they left the cart there and left at the same time.
