Under appreciated staff - Anonymous Primark Employee Review

2.0
Jun 1, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Plenty of hours and opportunities to work extra hours. Good co workers Train you well when you first start

Cons

It is very demanding work, long hours, little breaks, and they expect you to get so much done in an unrealistic time frame. The managers and supervisors seem to do nothing and just walk around and criticize you. Poor communication between managers and supervisors. Working on tills can be a bit tedious, and it can become annoying having to ring a supervisor over every time you need something done on a till other than take money.. They don't seem to trust you at all! Be prepared to work a lot of overtime- we are supposed to finish at 6 on a Saturday shift, however for as long as I've been working there, we haven't finished until 6.45.. Just due to poor management of staff, the store being generally messy after the day, and an overfilled fitting room. Poor organisation of staff, poor communication, no trust, a very marked hierarchy of staff who look down on the sales floor workers.

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Cons

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Pros

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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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