NAAFI Reviews

Pros

Its a great place to work at

Cons

There are not any cons

Advice to Management

Keep doing what you are doing

Pros

You go all around the world with the navy and get paid for it.

Cons

Away from family and friends far too much and for long periods. Work/home balance non existent. Living conditions not good, small space. Salary could be a little higher considering you hardly see your family and friends. Not a job if your married. if you're young free and single ok.

Advice to Management

Look after your employees and listen to what they are saying.

Pros

Free accommodation, taxfree wages, alcohol, cigarettes, opportunity to serve the British Forces in different locations across the world, varied jobs throughout the company to learn from, plenty of opportunities to gain extensive knowledge of just about any customer service career

Cons

Accommodation can be really good or really bad depending on where you are based, very clicquey, training has lapsed severely over the years, difficult to get promoted

Advice to Management

The good old days were great, shame its coming to an end

Pros

Worked in great places all Over the world, it's a shame the company don't have any sites left in the uk.

Cons

The troops coming back from Germany and not been told by head office. Then having to open up 3 bars and fast food shop. With hardly any stock.

Advice to Management

None

Pros

live in free on the camp where I work

Cons

Employ useless people as managers who are "friends" but cannot do ANYTHING. People who can do the job get passed over. Wages are bad- they bang on that we dont pay tax, but 39hours a week and open every day of the year gets you £13500. Staff include thieves, drunks an people who are in incestuous relationships - you couldn't make it up.

Advice to Management

Learn how to manage and stop picking on staff who work, instead of lazy drunks because they are youre friends.

Pros

The management in this company is great. There is an unbelivable amount of opportunities to progress your career or even just travel as part of your job. You get to meet some amazing people.

Cons

I worked with some not very nice people during my role.

Pros

You get paid on time and arranging holiday time is easy. Apart from the reward you may feel from actively helping and providing a service for the British troops abroad, that's about it.

Cons

Management is useless. The general way of promotion does not reflect a persons hard work or relationship with the customers but, to word it politely, by how much you are willing to suck up to the management. I watched many hardworking and very competent staff overlooked for promotion for sometimes new inexperienced and unprofessional people who just happened to be related or married to another manager. The hard... workers they reward by giving the extra work caused by this new managements inability to do their job.

Advice to Management

Employ people who know how to do the job and reward them rather than overwork them. Then maybe you'll actually gain a decent reputation as a company.

Pros

Self fulfilment - devlop a 'can-do' attitude Possible with commitment to progress as far as you want to go Opportunity to visit parts of the world that are not usually on anyones to-do list

Cons

Very poor at listening to staff - pretend to do employee surveys and when they say it as it is scrap the process Every Operating Board Member thinks they have to rubbish whatever their predecessor did - and promise they'll improve things (which they rarely do)

Advice to Management

Stop thinking that you are the greatest gift to management and listen to the staff at all levels. Also stop the witch hunts - where you get rid of experience because it doesn't agree with you or your methods