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Man....this is horrible. I get that "things get tossed" in a business environment. Like he said, an aquarium, maybe other "durable" items. But jeez, you do not throw out a living creature.
i love the guy who made the video's attitude,even when one of the employee's spouses threaten him in a comment,he asks for a time to meet him in the petco car park.....
imo every city,town,etc,should have a guy like that guy living there,world would be a better place for it
cheers shaun
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i love the guy who made the video's attitude,even when one of the employee's spouses threaten him in a comment,he asks for a time to meet him in the petco car park.....
imo every city,town,etc,should have a guy like that guy living there,world would be a better place for it
cheers shaun
Agreed. I'd be so pissed off I'd have to leave else I'd strangle someone. But, there is only one problem (and I'm not sure how things work in corporate America, but I was victim to this all the time)... Someone would come running up to me (officer or chief) and just start screaming at me because of something someone below me was doing. I had no idea they were doing it, but I still got the brunt of it. What I learned was this: ignorance of what your people are doing, at a management level, is no excuse. You need to be paying attention to what each and every employee is doing, this is why you get paid more money, you have more responsibility.
I have been talking to him, please spread the link everywhere you can.
Visit his facebbok page.
This guy runs a bonafide rescue, it's not a stunt, 100% real.
Sweet. I shall be visiting his page shortly... Ever since I joined this forum I've been getting more proactive in things with reptiles... This goes along with Rise Against Rattlesnake Roundups.
You know....running a business is tough. You have to watch every single margin (and expense). I would imagine that a pet store is even tougher.... How many neon tetras do you have to sell to cover payroll? You would think that (even tho they're a HUGE chain), every little bit helps. Every green iguana they sell in GOOD CONDITION is profit and it would likely keep that customer coming back for husbandry items (continued revenue stream)... maybe I'm being naive, but it just blows my mind that really happens. I mean, who does that?!?!?. Not only are they losing dollars (business side), but the lost revenue from bad press can't be great....but throwing away a LIVING ANIMAL IN THE TRASH?!?!?!? Man....just man.
Wow there's just no excuse for that. I think with pet stores it really comes down to the employees. I've been to non chain pet stores that are filthy. The Petlands and Petcos around me actually aren't that bad. While I don't expect much from the employees, the stores are clean. I don't think they would do something like this... But then again, who knows?
Back in the day I was an assistant manager at a chain pet store. It was actually a good operation where one of the criteria to be hired was that you were a pet enthusiest and had to know your stuff. This chain actually did care for the live animals.
Anyway, we would get shipments in once a week. Every week it seemed we would be short on reptiles. They would be on the invoice, but not in the cages. Turns out that one of the employees who was in charge of unboxing the reptile orders (that was my job before I became assistant manager) was taking animals out of the boxes, re box what he wanted to take that week, and put it in the dumpster in the back of the store and then collect the box from the dumpster after we closed. It just looked like the wearhouse just shorted us for the longest time until the manager got smart to the whole thing and waited by the store one night after closing. Turns out the dude was selling the reptiles for a fraction of what the store had them for.
What I am saying, and I am not defending PETCO at all (I would personally never even step foot in one of those stores), is that it could have been an employee trying to get that iguana without having to pay for it. OR, the store is just filled with idiots. I guess it can go either way.
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i just put it in the lizard and also the snake section,on that crazy UK forum Wayne...
you know the one i'm talking about,they should go a tad crazy and spread it around,you know how VOCAL that forum can be mate
cheers shaun
Besides this place, that is one of my favorite sites. Love you crazy Europeans. LOL
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