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So for now I've been working in a certain chain petstore and I DO NOT sell reptiles, animals, or fish just to make the store money, I don't give a sh*t, if I sense there is no desire to really dedicate to the animal, they don't leave with an animal LOL!! This guy had a 2yr old and they were looking at our big White's treefrog for a while and I asked if they needed help and they said no. So I went on to manage the fish area. So, not long after I asked them if they needed help, this guy comes out of the bird isle with a bird cage and walks up to me. I'm thinking, okay now the want a bird, he walks up and says "I'm ready now, I want that big tree frog". I say nothing at first because my eyes are looking at the bird cage, then ask what the cage is for. "Oh my daughter wants to keep the frog in this cage, so can we get him now??" What? HELL NO!! WTF is wrong with you?? Okay, I'll give him a break, o, I cannot, have you ever seen a frog in a bird cage outside of a cartoon? Neither have I!
So I told him that that was not acceptable as a appropriate cage for the frog, and explained that it would be like you sleeping in a house that just had the skeleton, no walls, no doors, no bed no nothing and no shirt or pants. You'd be miserable! That's how the frog would be. So he wasn't interested after that. But damn, I shudder to think of the idiots who work around me at other locations would just sell the frog and not ask questions.........I've got so much more to share but it's have to go into the lizard section as well.
i got crap for it when i was the only one with that title. i'm just making sure to pass on the torch. the title goes by post count, btw. hopefully there's something after it, lol.
it is funny though. i didn't notice til i was taking **** like a pack of german shepherds on an all milk and chocolate laxatives diet either. i guess it's your turn. :: passes torch with fuel still leaking ::
I think this guy deserves Idiot of the Month award - a golden frog statue, with wings
Seriously, once I get my store front going, and if my business does well enough that I have to hire help, anyone that WOULD sell a pet to someone that idiotic would be immediately fired. Good for you for sticking up for what you know is right.
Kristina
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I think this guy deserves Idiot of the Month award - a golden frog statue, with wings
Seriously, once I get my store front going, and if my business does well enough that I have to hire help, anyone that WOULD sell a pet to someone that idiotic would be immediately fired. Good for you for sticking up for what you know is right.
Kristina
Lol, thanks. Yeah, that's one of my issues about working in a chain petstore. You have to be careful about what you say to people, even if their theory on how animal is treated is dreadfully altered. I had to kind of argue with this lady the other day. She couldn't understand why it would be wrong to keep a pacman frog in the petri dish (we usethem to be transported home) for a week. I told her, you need to put yourself in the frog's shoes. Would you be happy living in a bathtub just for a week? No. I mean these things generally have endless space when not captive in general. And then her thinking cap came on.....even still, that was another frog I didn't sell.....lol.
I think this guy deserves Idiot of the Month award - a golden frog statue, with wings
Seriously, once I get my store front going, and if my business does well enough that I have to hire help, anyone that WOULD sell a pet to someone that idiotic would be immediately fired. Good for you for sticking up for what you know is right.
Kristina
It's actually illegal to refuse a sale. Exotic pets are legally considered property, and unless every transaction for an animal is set up as an adoption, in the end if the person wants the animal it is illegal to not sell it. It puts stores that care in bad positions fairly frequently, but the law is the law, and if someone is refused, they can sue.
I'm not sure if there is a way to get around it by posting signs reserving the right to refuse an animal sale or something like that, but I do know that it is indeed illegal to refuse the sale.
In a big chain store such as Petstupid, you're lucky if anyone working there cares one whit about the exotics. The management generally doesn't, and company policy at Petstupid (unless it's changed) is that exotic pets are not animals, they are PRODUCT. How disgusting... I sacrificed my morals and bought dog toys from them yesterday... It sickens me... How weak I am in my resolve to NEVER give them my money again after what I was told in that job interview...
It's actually illegal to refuse a sale. Exotic pets are legally considered property, and unless every transaction for an animal is set up as an adoption, in the end if the person wants the animal it is illegal to not sell it. It puts stores that care in bad positions fairly frequently, but the law is the law, and if someone is refused, they can sue.
I'm not sure if there is a way to get around it by posting signs reserving the right to refuse an animal sale or something like that, but I do know that it is indeed illegal to refuse the sale.
In a big chain store such as Petstupid, you're lucky if anyone working there cares one whit about the exotics. The management generally doesn't, and company policy at Petstupid (unless it's changed) is that exotic pets are not animals, they are PRODUCT. How disgusting... I sacrificed my morals and bought dog toys from them yesterday... It sickens me... How weak I am in my resolve to NEVER give them my money again after what I was told in that job interview...
Well, looks like I shall be prepared to be fired soon. Lol, PETstupid! Lol, the whole time I was calling it PETsdumb. Yeah, I'm going to leave that place soon. I just cannot deal with the company who gives us our small animals. It's horrible. The delivery guys are asshats.....
Sure beats some idiots at Petco who watered their dumpy's with windex! I'm like OMFG THEY BOTH HIRE IDIOTS!! NO PET EXPERIENCE THATS OKAY!!!
Idiots and Frogs......lol.
What? HELL NO!! WTF is wrong with you?? Okay, I'll give him a break, o, I cannot, have you ever seen a frog in a bird cage outside of a cartoon? Neither have I!
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