I don't know how the government haven't shut them down yet - Anonymous employee B&M Retail Employee Review

1.0
Mar 27, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

In the beginning when we were involved in building the store: - Jovial atmosphere, made lots of new friends - Good nights out - Plenty of hours - Great banter

Cons

Now here's where it gets really interesting, so 2 months in I personally found out one of the Supervisors had no background checks done, was actually a criminal who went on to steal from me and then threaten me. Waves of redundancies hit the store whittling down 80 workers to 20 - who were still expected to output the same level of work. Gossip ran riot and I was personally victimised by malicious rumours, as were other members of staff. Our work output never changed from start to finish but at around the fifth month we were given written warnings for no reason, my hours were cut from 40 in the beginning to 10 come the end, I was unable to break even on my bills and they simply did not care. It went from one of the best jobs I ever had to being an abomination, wrought with health and safety issues, a total lack of communication, constant chastising for little to no reason and the company itself is an embarassingly poorly run outfit. So many concerns for basic welfare and rights I couldn't ever recommend this job unless it was as a form of torture. Despicable people, despicable company.

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Cons

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Cons

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