Overall a good job - Production Assistant Simbodies Employee Review

Let’s get one thing clear this is not a SFX job, a media makeup job or even a creative job so it should not be advertised as this. This is simply a factory job where you are doing boring repetitive work in a factory style environment. Trying to pretend that it’s anything other than this is very misleading. You are expected to stand all day doing monotonous work. Sometimes you’re allowed to sit down but there’s deliberately not enough chairs for everyone which causes arguments between team and when you do sit down to complete detailed work you’re made to feel very guilty about it. You’re not allowed to make a drink, have a chat with your colleagues you’re simply a robot being pressured to make products as fast as you can. You aren’t even trusted during break times as managers watch to make sure you’re back in the workshop not a second too late. You are berated for going on breaks 1 second early whilst managers sit outside for double the time they’re supposed to gossiping behind everyone’s backs. You constantly feel like a naughty school child who’s waiting to get in trouble for something even though you haven’t done anything wrong. Managers are constantly nit picking at you, if you go to the bathroom twice in an hour trust me they’ll notice and have a passive aggressive comment to say about it. You can barely move without managers whispering about you or finding reasons to tell you off in front of everyone whilst they indulge in the behaviours that they claim to be so against. The paranoia and hopelessness I experienced during this job was massive and I was expected to act like this was a normal place to work at and that I should be grateful. If you don’t mind factory work, work in any other manufacturing environment. Don’t spend your time in a cold windowless dull factory that permanently stinks of sewage whilst you get whispered about by power obsessed supervisors and managers.

Everything about working here is a con. There are some great production assistants that work there but you end up being too miserable to talk about anything other than how bad things are.

Interesting work very unique, can be very interesting

No orders coming in over 3 months, work had to be borrowed from a sister company that wasn't sustainable. After being gaslit for months with people starting to worry about the lack of work, a full team meeting was held where Managers and American managers ambushed us with the statement that 18 people (out of about 45) were to be made redundant effective immediately. Avoid simbodies at all costs, I would be shocked if the business lasted another 2 months. About 1 manager to 2 staff. No management was included in the 18. They sacrificed loyal team members so they could keep their 40k wage and self inflicted "titles" that serve no purpose in the business.