Bad management led to an unpleasant work environment - Retail Sales Assistant NEXT Employee Review

3.0
Aug 26, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Opportunity for overtime - Staff discount good - Bonus scheme led to nice surprises some months

Cons

- Rude managers who chose to treat younger staff like dirt - Once locked in store whilst setting up for sale. Shift was due to end at 10pm and expecting to run over I had arranged a lift from my parents at 11pm. However, when this time came I was unable to leave and manager got particularly angry when I explained my reason for needing to leave rather than be able to stay. I was expected to be in store again at 4.45am. - I started as a temp but ended up working for just over a year. It took the store a long time to actually train me because of this. I would have expected to be trained properly as soon as the busy Christmas season ended but this didn't occur until around May. - Took a long time for the store to sort out uniform allowance for me, everything seemed very disorganised

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