Does anyone else take advantage of their LFS? lol

[Fat Homer]

I fully understand they do not get paid well. However, the owner/manager should pay them to at least spend a couple hours a week to research, or learn it themselves to instruct the employees. Sure, this would cost them more money, but it would make up for it with higher survival rates, healthier fish leading to more sales, less mislabelling and the ability to actually answers questions customers ask sometimes.

Fair enough, but the problem is most of these shops are barely scraping by as it is (at least over here), so for them to pay even more on top of that as incentive is very rarely going to happen if ever since we live in a far from perfect world...

Also, how can you guarantee they will learn it? by testing them each week, or even each month? i think a lot of people would turn around and just look for another low paying job that didn't require them to learn about the things they were selling... its kinda like if i were to all of a sudden lose my job, i wouldn't go and try and be a mechanic, coz A) I don't want to learn an encyclopedia worth of of new things since i already have my skill set and B) there are other low pay jobs i could probably do and still get paid the same and not need to learn a whole new load of new information and C) Who's to say even the shop owner has the correct info in the first place for all the fish?

Either way, i'm not saying its not a good idea, but sadly we don't live in a perfect world and as such, things like this very rarely happen unfortunately... although maybe in the US / Canada its slightly different? i don't know?

 

[Horiyoshi III]

Your using your knoledge for evil, you get it now?
Be the bigger person.It's actually kind of embarrassing, you are only speaking of really small dollar amounts.

 

[Bottomfeeder]

You guys are ridiculous. He didnt rip them off, they screwed themselves by not knowing their own stock.

 

[Falazo]

I think if LFS label fish wrong and when you tell them and they argue or just eh whatever then its all fair game. Lol

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[bichir84]

I see more fish labeled as more expensive types than the other way around. You think they would tell you ? Negative. I tattoo for a living and when I price something I don't change it if it ends up taking more time than I thought.

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[demonte1997]

There aren't any quality LFS in my area of CT, so count your blessings that there is anything near you. PetCo and Pet Supplies "Plus" (I always laugh that they put quotes around the Plus as if they don't even believe it's any better) are all we have and they suck a fat one. As the economy keeps sputtering, it will become increasingly difficult to get almost any fish aside from local breeders on aquabid and whatnot. :/

 

[Psylant]

Fair enough, but the problem is most of these shops are barely scraping by as it is (at least over here), so for them to pay even more on top of that as incentive is very rarely going to happen if ever since we live in a far from perfect world...

Also, how can you guarantee they will learn it? by testing them each week, or even each month? i think a lot of people would turn around and just look for another low paying job that didn't require them to learn about the things they were selling... its kinda like if i were to all of a sudden lose my job, i wouldn't go and try and be a mechanic, coz A) I don't want to learn an encyclopedia worth of of new things since i already have my skill set and B) there are other low pay jobs i could probably do and still get paid the same and not need to learn a whole new load of new information and C) Who's to say even the shop owner has the correct info in the first place for all the fish?

Either way, i'm not saying its not a good idea, but sadly we don't live in a perfect world and as such, things like this very rarely happen unfortunately... although maybe in the US / Canada its slightly different? i don't know?

I don't know about that. Almost every basic job requires you to learn something. Imagine working at McDonalds or something for example. When someone orders a Big Mac do you make them a a Fillet of Fish because you don't know what a Big Mac is? Pretty much every job requires SOME training. Even working at Walmart you have to do training on a computer for 2-4 days depending on how fast you can finish it. I don't think any testing is required, and I don't think the research needs to be very in-depth either. A small amount of knowledge would go an extremely long ways. Even if they just learned the nitrogen cycle, basic tank maintenance, and how to treat ich they'd be saving themselves major headaches. I know this wouldn't be a perfect solution but I think it is better than nothing. I'm pretty sure they could do research in the time no one is in the store, and they are being paid anyways. The store makes a decent amount of money since they charge so much money for their fish and equipment, and they sell a lot of dog and cat food.

 

[Psylant]

Your using your knoledge for evil, you get it now?
Be the bigger person.It's actually kind of embarrassing, you are only speaking of really small dollar amounts.

Exactly! I buy fish that are mislabelled so I am a horrible, evil person with morale deficiencies. I'm so ashamed!... *cough*

You do realize that even at the price I buy their mislabelled fish, they are still profiting, right?

 

[frnchjeep]

There aren't any quality LFS in my area of CT, so count your blessings that there is anything near you. PetCo and Pet Supplies "Plus" (I always laugh that they put quotes around the Plus as if they don't even believe it's any better) are all we have and they suck a fat one. As the economy keeps sputtering, it will become increasingly difficult to get almost any fish aside from local breeders on aquabid and whatnot. :/

Where in ct are you?



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[Horiyoshi III]

Hahaha, lololololol, this site is tooEZ!1 HA!
When you score a deal on something between 3 and 4 digits then holla at me.

School those people that work there though, so at the least maybe some conditions may improve and you can build a report with the right people, and deals might come that way. Done it a few times.