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Toronto Humane Society Reviews

3.0

42% would recommend to a friend

(38 total reviews)

38% positive business outlook

Toronto Humane Society has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 38 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Toronto Humane Society employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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38 reviews
1.0
6 Mar 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There is one pro to working here: if you love animals, it seems like a dream job. Emphasis on SEEMS.

Cons

Working here is like walking on ice all the time. Upper management does not want to hear your opinion and will in fact punish you for it. These punishments come in the form of seemingly meaningless write-ups, passive aggressive changes in shifts or work assignments and often firing. In fact, every six months or so a bunch of people get fired out of nowhere. Their goal is to keep the organization running by keeping happy employees, not by maintaining the morale of current staff members, but by firing the ones who speak up about the abhorrent management style and hiring new, fresh faced, ignorant ones. Things have improved since the Tim Trow days for the animals, but the staff is still being treated like dirt.

1.0
5 Sept 2018

horrible workplace

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

working with alot of animals

Cons

very political. They only want to hear what they expected to hear, animal care workers are at the lowest class at THS whom have no right to speak up/defend themselves. There are only 2 types of employees, the supervisors favorite and unfavorite. The supervisors have too much power, they can scream, yell at you if they dont like you and will give you more work as punishment, unfavourite employees can get warnings for something that everybody else does. The big boss put partial amount of money from donations into his own pocket, there was a donation from a family which was a big amount of money, the boss took 10% from it.

3.0
6 Apr 2018

Poor management

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Working with animals Good team of workers

Cons

Management The shelter managers and supervisors act like they are running a prison. The work is hard at times but is very rewarding. I do not believe they take the time to appreciate the work of the animal care workers in the shelter. I remember one instance of the then assistant manager yelling at me because I forgot to clean a cage out. I seriously almost lost my cool. Thick skin and a love for what you are doing sometimes is not enough to get through the day. People end up taking a lot of sick time to get a break from the cruel attitudes of the management staff who believe they are above you.

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