Don't ever work here!! (Must read!!) - Anonymous employee Butlins Employee Review

A huge amount as follows...Rock bottom money with having to work a week in advance because they only pay you up to a week behind the current date which is an insult. You should be paid up until the date you have worked & when minimum wage increases you don't get it on time because of this very poor but crafty & clever set up for them. (Employers have it all their own way.) There's some extremely ignorant staff on site even when you say hello to their face some completely ignore you extremely rudely. I don't know how some people think & can be comfortable doing that & sleep of a night afterwards. Some staff that think they're gods gift on the maintenance team especially David W who is one of the rudest people on site (for no reason at all) & takes some beating although Karen A on control is close. (The perfect couple.) Poor, weak, & ignorant management that have no respect for their staff after all their efforts especially. No hello most of the time, no bye & zero thanks for all your efforts rushing around for rock bottom wage when you leave. Extremely high staff turnover but all they do in rejuvenation is talk about the 1 positive half way through the year about taking on over 500 new staff, never the negatives that they've already lost this year only 6 months in close to 600. They can't keep anyone & it's obvious why when you work there. (They know they can pay you peanuts & treat you however they like because the employers have it all their own way & there is a huge lack of jobs around here which they know.) Their answer is if you dont like it, there is plenty of other departments on site to work for which is clearly the wrong answer, poor & they can't deal with problems (mostly because they're not interested.) Poor pension payments from employer. No advancement in your job on offer. Extremely appalling staff accommodation with no cooking appliances allowed on site & no kitchen sinks. Management that have nothing better to do than to take pictures of your work & plaster it all around buildings for everyone to see & talk about & won't come up to you 1st to see why you had to leave it like that. They are a disgrace. Control & management (if you can call them that) do anything they can to make you do other departments jobs especially when you're leaving. More jobs given to you to do for the same pay. Multiskilled workers required for rock bottom wages & even in departments where your title isn't a Multiskilled Operative you're expected to do multiskilled jobs for rock bottom wages. Cleaners are paid more than maintenance team members for doing an easier less skilled job. Some lazy staff here that won't do anything to help you even when it's their job to. Incorrect pay often. Many times they've paid me incorrectly there & I had to keep fighting for the correct money & I was paid approaching £200 in cash once (when I had bills to pay from my account). They do anything to not pay you correctly & try to trick/fool you it seems too with your pay. They have purposely also put payroll in the hr office too so that if there is any complaints with pay, they know nobody will make a scene in front of an office load of about 20 members of staff. You also have to fill in your own forms instead of the payroll team members to get money you should of been paid in the 1st place. Management want extreme bodgers there with the lack of parts available sometimes, with rushing you to do jobs & not the correct tools required to do jobs. -They try to save money on small littles things but won't spend money on badly leaking roofs that have been like that & reported many times for months, they won't spend it on the close to collapsing staff accommodation but happily spend in on entertainment. People's accommodation even guests is far more important to look into currently. No overtime available unless they want you do it but having said that you wouldn't want to do it for them because overtime rate is the same as normal pay, you get no thanks for doing it & your money will most probably be incorrect after doing it/you won't be paid. Also you will be rushed off your feet like most days. Most days you don't get a second to yourself (all day.) B*tchy office staff most of them in control that like being sarcastic, lazy & causing drama especially Karen. A lot of maintenance staff that are happy to bodge & think that bodging is normal & the way to fix things. (There is no job satisfaction here because of this & it just leads to others having to fix someone else's work which if it was done properly in the 1st place, you wouldn't have to do.) Saddos working here well beyond retirement because they don't have a life.