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1. While working at petsmart this past summer I had a direct supervisor in petcare as well as the manager of the store to which I reported to. The way that shifts worked out was there was only one petcare assosiate on at a time and my supervisor would have her hours spread out over the week so sometimes you may only see her once or by chance might work with her throughout the week. I was scheduled often early morning which tended to be the opposite time she would by in so she would leave notes on my task list for the day if she needed to relay informaton to me. I had been working there for a couple of weeks when some tension started to come to my attention in the workplace. Some of my colleagues had not been performing their duties as well as they should have been which then was affectign the animals health and visual presentaiton of the store.

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