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dog daycare attendant

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24 Hour Dog Daycare

Long story short this company is the worst company I have ever experienced. I took this job during the pandemic which was already making it hard to find a job. They don’t care if you have experience working with dogs or not but don’t expect a call back if you are a guy or person of color. They discriminate you on a daily basis and pick favorites. Little to no opportunity to grow in this company and the dogs are in a warehouse that is constantly at 78-84 degrees hot. They’ll catfish their customers at the front desk to think its 75 or cooler but it’s actually too hot where the dogs end up with no real air flow. People are constantly quitting for many different reasons and the company acts like they don’t know what they’re doing wrong. I started looking for another job two months into this company because my manager showed me a video of my coworker getting attacked on the floor by a dog that I told my manager was showing signs of aggression. On top of it all they admitted to not watching the cameras when this happened and my coworker was forced to leave the dogs unattended after she got attacked because no one was there to help her. They don’t have any safety procedures or proper training on how to deal with 20+ dogs in a section by yourself. Even if another person is added to the section to help you they still keep really bad dogs that are a danger to other dogs or the attendants. They don’t get banned unless they full on cause an injury to a dog or person. They give too many chances to bad dogs and blame the attendants no matter how many times you correct the bad dogs. It’s very misleading when it should be the owner’s responsibility to make sure their dog listens to any corrections. Also found a bottle of alcohol in the fridge which I find very inappropriate to have at a workplace like this. I could say a lot about this company but in all honesty I love dogs and they made it worth it to come to work everyday But the cons definitely outweigh the pros and I’d rather work with dogs in a company that doesn’t neglect the dogs and their employees at the same time. 

The best way to describe the environment at 24 Hour Dog Daycare is with something I was told in my first week of employment: "Spending your lunch break crying in your car because of how upsetting it is [there] is a right of passage."
Working at 24HDD is, in a word, frustrating. Breaks and lunches are constantly late for attendants, and it is frustrating and boring to stay in one play area for your entire shift. Moving up in the company is 80% management playing favorites, and once you actually move up in the company, you wish you hadn't. Leads are overworked and immensely stressed and skip their lunches at least 3 days a week. The management treats employees as if they are disposable due to the high volume of applicants who don't know what they're signing up for. The facility itself is run down, with air conditioning and heating that are constantly breaking, roofs that leak whenever it gets a little rainy, constantly backed up plumbing, and a list of things that need to be fixed that only gets longer as time goes on, presenting a danger to both employees and the dogs in the facility. Also the management seems to exclusively hire women under the age of 30 which is more than a little concerning. Are some of the dogs nice and cute? Yes. Is it worth it? NO!

Don't get me wrong. I love this place and what the company stands for. They treat every dog as if they were their own. However, the managers need to take a step back and evaluate themselves. They are too gossipy, and play favorites way too often. It never really happened much to me, but watching it from afar saddens me because I know they can do better. Unless you want to hang out with the managers outside work, speak ill of other employees that's not based on work ethic, and gossip every day. Otherwise, work will become toxic. A good amount of us dread coming into work, or opening up the work chat. But seeing the sweet dogs and meeting new ones can make up for it to a certain extent. I wish them the best of luck, because I know they can be the best managers around. Possible solutions: A course in managment or setting boundries might do them some good.

● Work-life balance
Just like any other job there were pros and cons. For me, the pros outweighed the cons. I learned so much working at the daycare and made so many friends. For the most part, everyone always got along. The almost 5 years I worked here there was minimal drama between coworkers but when there was it was easily resolved. The owners cared about each and every employee and did all they could to show their appreciation for each of us. They always tried their best to work around our schedules if we needed off and they understood when life happened. The managers stuck together to make sure everyone was happy and did as much as they could to make each person feel welcomed. I miss this place dearly and hate that we had to move across country. I don’t think I will find another place that I feel so comfortable working at and I don’t think I’ll find bosses that I feel so comfortable going to. I’m thankful for my opportunity here.

● Overall
There’s ups and downs at any place you work but I would rather go through ups and downs here than anywhere else. 24 hour dog daycare is a great place to work for any dog lover.

Management is fantastic and very understanding of other life priorities. This company always puts the dogs first and as a person who's worked in this career my entire adult life this is honestly rare. The staff is welcoming and the environment is great. It's not all puppies and sunshine though, the work is physical and can be exhausting. It can be really dirty work and working with animals can always be risky but the company helps you understand how to handle difficult situations so staff and other dogs don't get hurt.  If you work hard it's easy to move up. You just have to care. That's it.

Dogs were awful, co workers were very judgy and didn’t make me feel included or appreciated from the get go. Most of the dogs were ok but vast majority of dogs were poorly behaved, ill trained or just awful. Left alone with 20+ dogs for majority of the shift within a few days of starting. They don’t care about you, they don’t care if you don’t know exactly how to handle things- they just want you to make sure fights aren’t started and if they are- it’s all your fault. Quit barely 1 month into working, hated it immediately.

You get treated badly by management. The owner would see you crash and burn on the freeway then let you take a day off. They're also really nosey about what you're doing on your time off. They'll fire you for looking at anyone funny. Alot of other employees try to drop their work load off on you, and they usually leave you with like 40 dogs alone to deal with on like your first week working there and if anything goes wrong you're definitely gonna get blamed for everything. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Being with the dogs

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Everything you are constantly left along with too many dogs for one person to take care of. Constantly getting yelled at. Dogs that haven't been properly socialized fighting other dogs. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Terrible just terrible if you are a pack leader you are lower than dirt and upper management will treat you like trash if you aren't friends with them.

As stated in the title, 24 Hour Dog Daycare can be a very frustrating place to work. 
Management is largely indifferent to the complaints or requests of staff. 
The majority of the (limited) staff is overworked and clearly stressed. 
Management seems to play favorites, going as far as not to punish higher level employees for, sometimes, very serious infractions. 
It's fun to work with dogs, but it's not a great place to work long term. 

Managers are very disrespectful and have no sympathy for your well being or health problems if it interrupts a shift or causes you to leave early
from a shift or not be available to cover someone else’s shift. bathroom breaks are a problem for them because you should have gone on one of your scheduled breaks or before you arrive to work but no other time is it allowed. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Pet sitter 6 salaries reported	$19.00 per hour
Care team leader 6 salaries reported	$19.80 per hour
Dog daycare attendant 11 salaries reported	$17.30 per hour
Pet bather 11 salaries reported	$17.30 per hour
Cleaner 1 salary reported	$17.30 per hour

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