I will be taking a break from the Saltwater hobby for a little while... Got fired from my job with Petco, railroaded because I reported my management for failing to properly care for some of our animals. I won't be able to give you guys heads up on $1/gallon sales anymore. I have just bought a new house, too, we close on the 30th. Financially just can't afford this great hobby, and I'm too depressed about losing the job in which I got to see and experience all kinds of marine life.
Since I moved to the League City Petco, I wasn't allowed to say it while employed with them, but things are actually quite bad there. Things to avoid buying from that store:
Anything from the first 3 columns (looking at it from the left from the front door). There is a ton of problems in those tanks that I had figured out, but they wouldn't allow me to fix. They do not test the water. I finally tested them for the first time myself (The other people claimed they were doing it) and my numbers were WAY off what the reports said (The Frag tank PH was 7.5, Nitrate levels in A, B and C columns were through the roof, and Salinty in almost every tank was below 1.19, one of them was 1.14). The loss there is extreme. The only decent tanks to buy out of are the column divided into 9 sections, and the frag tank.
Many of you visited me there, and I would try to be as honest as I could with you guys but I was also being pressured to stop talking people out of certain fish because of illness. The freshwater systems especially, every single community fish section has anchor worm, and they were profiting loads off of selling "Treatments" for the parasite and continued to sell fish infested with them. I tried to finally get the attention of corporate level management about a month ago about many of the issues, and the following week I was pulled from aquatics and placed on truck crew. I have been mostly doing stock and overnight truck crew the last month. They would work me 10pm until 7am, and have me come back in 2pm the same day I left from truck and do more stocking or put me in a customer service role in the aquatics section. I asked them not to because I was no physically capable of the work load the position required, but they continued to do it until I had to call out one day after truck because I was not capable of working mentally or physically, I was drained. They fired me today because of that.
It was fun having you guys visit me at the store while I worked there, I really miss the Clear Lake store a lot, I didn't get treated like an outsider and animal care there is VERY serious business.
I'll still be checking in occasionally, especially since I want to know how Tiffany's new Eel I just sold her recently will be doing.
If you guys want to ask questions about Petco and how things work, go for it. I'm an open book now that I don't have to worry about my job.
Since I moved to the League City Petco, I wasn't allowed to say it while employed with them, but things are actually quite bad there. Things to avoid buying from that store:
Anything from the first 3 columns (looking at it from the left from the front door). There is a ton of problems in those tanks that I had figured out, but they wouldn't allow me to fix. They do not test the water. I finally tested them for the first time myself (The other people claimed they were doing it) and my numbers were WAY off what the reports said (The Frag tank PH was 7.5, Nitrate levels in A, B and C columns were through the roof, and Salinty in almost every tank was below 1.19, one of them was 1.14). The loss there is extreme. The only decent tanks to buy out of are the column divided into 9 sections, and the frag tank.
Many of you visited me there, and I would try to be as honest as I could with you guys but I was also being pressured to stop talking people out of certain fish because of illness. The freshwater systems especially, every single community fish section has anchor worm, and they were profiting loads off of selling "Treatments" for the parasite and continued to sell fish infested with them. I tried to finally get the attention of corporate level management about a month ago about many of the issues, and the following week I was pulled from aquatics and placed on truck crew. I have been mostly doing stock and overnight truck crew the last month. They would work me 10pm until 7am, and have me come back in 2pm the same day I left from truck and do more stocking or put me in a customer service role in the aquatics section. I asked them not to because I was no physically capable of the work load the position required, but they continued to do it until I had to call out one day after truck because I was not capable of working mentally or physically, I was drained. They fired me today because of that.
It was fun having you guys visit me at the store while I worked there, I really miss the Clear Lake store a lot, I didn't get treated like an outsider and animal care there is VERY serious business.
I'll still be checking in occasionally, especially since I want to know how Tiffany's new Eel I just sold her recently will be doing.
If you guys want to ask questions about Petco and how things work, go for it. I'm an open book now that I don't have to worry about my job.
