Let's start from the very beginning, we took out two dogs to Peluche's for the first time a few months ago. They did a nice job. For $35 dollars they claim that they will:
1. Wash your dog
2. Trim their nails
3. Trim their fur
4. Clean their ears
5. Express your dog's anal glands
You can't beat this kind of service at a price point like the one they're offering, right?
Wrong. Spend a little extra and avoid the holier than thought employees who will do/say anything to excuse their lack of professionalism, horrible time management skills and lack of knowledge in pet services.
It was clear they were only trying to impress us, as new customers. The second time we took them, they only washed our dogs, after almost 2 hours of waiting.
A few weeks ago, we decided to give them another chance, seeing as they kept calling us every month to try and get us in. After explaining the previous experience we had, the employee tried lying about not being able to cut our dog's nails the last time, because they were indoor dogs and indoor dogs have longer nerve endings that grow along with their nails. (He wasn't working the last time we took them, nor did the employees working that day ASK us they were indoor dogs.) After telling him that we walk our dogs on concrete every day, he tried to blame us for keeping our dogs inside, as if that explained why they didn't cut their nails at our last visit. When we exited, they pretend to grab our dogs, as if they were going to work on them next.
After waiting over 2 hours, we tried to see if they were ready. Shocker, they hasn't even work on our dogs were locked in tiny cages for over 2 hours. They told us it would take at least another hour and a half. The same employee told is it was because we brought them too late, in such a condescending tone. We took our dogs in before noon and this was now a little after 2:00. Once again, trying to point the finger elsewhere.
We tried to take the dogs home, so they told us it would only take another 45 min to an hour. We didn't have another hour to waste.
Then the SAME employee proceeded to tell us they cried a lot, to seemingly try to justify why they didn't do their job. Please, explain his that hindered your ability to work for 2 hours? How did that impede your time management skills, considering there were very few dogs there? As "professionals," have you never dealt with nervous dogs that cry?
Customer service jobs are hard, because you have to deal with so many rude people, so I try to give people the benefit of the doubt. However, employees who lie to customers, are rude to customers and speak condescendingly from the beginning of an interaction just made businesses look bad.
Management: hire better employees, not family members who have no idea what they're doing. If not, management them better. Manage yourself better. Some if the reviewers here say that your employees have injured and sedated their pets and you just deny ever doing anything. If you cannot gracefully accept that you're accountable, you have no business running a company. read more