No room for growth - Trainee Manager Primark Employee Review

2.0
Nov 11, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-The pay is great but not enough for the work you do - I love the people I work with -PTO - Visits from CEO and others are great but stressful

Cons

It's a very stressful environment. Its very hard to advance with the company. Supervisors have also trained to be TMs in a 10 week program and no one advanced. They like to hire externally rather than promote from within. They bring employees from overseas to help out when we can do it ourselves, if they gave us a chance. The employees that come over have all expenses paid, the company pays for housing, meals and transportation. That is a lot of money being thrown around and they can't give management raises? Retail assistants just got a raise to $12/hr, they are giving that raise to all of them. Regardless if they have been working for the store since opening or if they were just hired. That is not fair to the staff who have been working over a year. There's no recognition plan in place. Not so much of a big deal but, I understand as a manager you need to be there for all your shifts. It's hard for managers to call out. My sick days and days owed can't be used.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

You get lots of PTO up front as a part timer and can gain flex hours overtime. Get a 50 cent raise every six months.

Cons

Was told during onboarding that if a Christian comes into the store spreading the gospel, I have to kick them out. This includes the mention of the Jesus without the church invite. Managers claim its rude and if a customer does it, they get booted. Faced harassment from a customer and management didn't let me switch too a different department. Extremely high turnover rate and managers don't replace them, making your job more stressful during peak hours. Hard to use PTO. Little to no training. Too many bachelor and master holding part timers who get lucked out of moving up in the company. Managers give some people no task while pilling on multiple tasks on one person. Too many managers to deal with (and usually never find) and the full timers make you do the dirty work while they "unpack boxes". Its a pro-LGBT anti christian company. If they want to be pro-LGBT, than more power to them. But anti-Christian is discriminatory and unnecessary.

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