Terrible place to work. - Anonymous employee Primark Employee Review

1.0
Sep 15, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

I can't think of any apart from you're only required to give 1 week's notice of resignation.

Cons

The staff are not valued, you're treated worse than cattle. There is no flexibility in your working hours, weekend staff and weekday staff so weekenders have to work every Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holidays. Only paid minimum wage, under 18's is less than £5 an hour. If you're on a less than 20 hour contract you're not paid sick pay, (this wasn't explained to me nor is it made clear in the staff handbook). Us and them attitude from the management, no meaningful consultation with staff, we were made to feel like second class citizens. Students are treated especially badly. The worse place I've ever worked with very high staff turnover and no decent training for new starters. I'm glad to be out of there.

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Cons

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Pros

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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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