Pret A Manger Employee Reviews about "food"

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Low salary and poor manager insulted me on the job without any useful criticism

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Bad manager and team leader is lazy in the office long hours little wage Not a good company to work for

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The job was sometimes really stressful. Firstly, the full time staff had really early starts from 5am and the hours were extremely long. My colleagues who worked full time were absolutely battered in the last 2 hours of thier shift and it was so disheartening to see them go through this. Some of them were quite upset and stressed out. I was working part time so for me lunch time was a real pain. Sometimes, we had to make Sandwiches and Baguettes within 30 seconds. They had to be made and on the shelf within 15 minutes. You are constantly under pressure. You need to memorise how to make 10-15 different types of coffee and they have to be made within 20 seconds so the customer only spends a minute in the store if they are taking out. If you really want to be successful at Pret you need to be in your managers "good books" or their "favourite employee" and they are lenient on you. Otherwise, you are treated like a robot by them. If one person makes one mistake when a mystery shopper is in the store the whole team have to suffer and we all lose out on the £1 extra per hour bonus. The shelves have to constantly be filled else we lose out on the £1 extra per hour bonus. That's a loss of £25 if you work 25 hours a week at Pret. Overall, I still recommend it to people who are looking to kick start their career!

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Heavy workload, borderline demeaning, discrimination.

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long hours but is ok

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Racist management. They have serious issues that need to be resolved. I wouldn’t recommend this job to any black or brown person! They will bully you and remind you your place in society! It’s disgusting

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It's a very exhausting job if you work in a busy store Some customers were really rude

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You're held to the absolute highest standard at all times with no slack which is why the service is uniform and so great but of course very tiring on staff. Managers sometimes looking after 3-4 branches at once which makes it difficult to ensure your hours work for you because managers are spread so fine.

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- Time management is unpredictable, there are chances that you’ll be in for closing shift on a monday and opening shift for tuesday. (where you go back home at 7, sleep, wake up at 4am, work) - Mystery shopper, your extra £1 ph is determined by another employee. There are certain employees who doesn’t care enough for the other full-timers. Basically speaking, you are not in control of that extra income. - A lot of work politics

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-Racist, non-inclusive environment that upper management and hr are fully aware of but ignore. The use of the 'N word' and many other racial slurs are common every day. You wonder how some of these people got hired into a customer service job. -Very political when it comes to treatment of certain employees -Unprofessional and low class work environment, with coworkers treating each other horribly, and also being disrespectful and rude to customers. Sexual harassment is also common. -Terrible management training program for new hires. Very little follow through and proper instruction in the shop. You're basically on your own. Some decent classes at the training center with good instructors but there are very few of those. -Most outside manager hires and many other employees come from traditional fast food and are really unprofessional and have very low management skills