Great place to work - Anonymous employee Humane Society Naples Employee Review

Rewarding work, great benefits, everyone from the top down is dedicated to the wellbeing of the animals. You get two days off together. Birthday off paid. There are plenty of opportunities for advancement and/or specialize training if you're reliable, do good work, and have an unproblematic attitude. Highly inclusive culture and a safe place for LGBTQ+ people.

The work is hard, physical, and not for those with delicate hearts. Compassion fatigue will happen if you're not taking care of yourself, and sometimes even if you are. You'll see plenty of animals that have been dealt a bad hand in life. You'll witness people needing to surrender animals, and how difficult that choice is for them. Euthanasia is uncommon but happens when it needs to.

All the animal love you could ever ask for, higher pay than most entry level jobs, above average benefits, great continuing education and exposure to new skills, and personal support- with the feeling that they care- from the big guns upstairs (which goes a long way). Plus the job, at its most base level, is the most rewarding job I’ve ever encountered. At the very least, everyone is able to bond over their love for animals.

Because the work is so exhausting, both physically and emotionally, the shelter turns into a tense, and sometimes passive-aggressive workplace- which is to be expected. What compounds upon that is the fact that there’s no productive or fruitful outlet to deal with problems- constructively- with either direct supervisors or coworkers; most are forced to act professional at the cost of bottling this stuff up. The training could be a bit more thorough to increase quality of stay for our animals, but great coworkers help with that.