could be better ... - Verkäufer/in Primark Employee Review

3.0
Oct 29, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Part time is a great option for people who need to study or have children and can not stay long hours away from home. Working five days a week, five hours a day and not working on weekends is very good. The salary is higher than the market average. Most of the time the team is friendly and helps each other without major ego problems.

Cons

Some supervisors are not an example for other workers and do not follow the rules of the company, for example, not talking their native language during working hours or not taking home the keys to the lockers. Visibly some are not prepared for the supervisory position and can not explain the task or the standard of the company. I believe that because they are not prepared for the position or even because they do not know how to speak very well the native language of the country that the company is located, they speak with the workers half words. At the end of the day when the store is closed and the team is finishing the store, supervisors do not want workers to talk to each other, while supervisors are talking to each other quietly or laughing. Is this annoying because you are working and thinking about what you are talking about? Is something going on? There is a supervisor who gets to the point of being stopped for fifteen, twenty minutes in front of the fingerprint waiting for the correct time to mark his exit time. This can easily be seen on the store security cameras. Some tasks may seem clear and obvious to people who are working some time in the store. But for people in the early months things are not clear. We who are already working some time in the store need to help new employees but at the same time we are afraid to talk because the supervisors do not like to talk but also do not explain how the standard system of the company works for tasks, such as a desk t-shirts whether when they should work standard or when they just organize fast. Everyone is always running, worried about their tasks and speaking half words to the team. In the fitting room, it should have a rota of team tasks, people spend months doing the same things as just 'austragen, or check-in / out or folding'. This is because the supervisor usually wants his patriots or his favorite workers inside the fitting room so they can talk their mother language without the others seeing.

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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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