Friendly co workers , terrible hours - Anonymous employee Primark Employee Review

3.0
26 Oct 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The other people working in my floor were friendly and around my age Funny and friendly supervisor who understood my problems with the job Simple interview and willing to take me in with no experience

Cons

Poor contract hours that did not fit in with what I wanted and I wasn't allowed to change them and wasn't told them until it was too late. Expected to do a lot of overtime , only contracted for 8 hours at the weekend then told the day before that I was to do four hours overtime on the Saturday (which would increase as it got closer to the holidays) and work Sunday and fit in other commitments Not allowed to leave your section most of the time and this meant that I was bored for long periods of time as I was on a simple section that did not require me to be there most of the time. Only allowed to refill at certain times meaning there would be times when my section was empty yet I wasn't allowed to refill for another hour, just recover the barely filled shelves. Didn't know who to talk to be about problems such as handing in my notice in the end and couldn't find my supervisor half of the time to ask about when my break was or what I was supposed to be doing. Induction was poor as it was literally signing forms for two hours then a short tour if the shop.

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reasonable, low stress, good PTO practices, consistent schedule

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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