Retail Assistant - Retail Assistant Primark Employee Review

1.0
Mar 1, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

There are no pros for Primark

Cons

Bank holidays are taken out of your 28 days statutory holidays No lockers to store your belongings in Staff discount is only 10% and only available 4 times a year Having to wait in line to clock in for your shift using a hand scanner and marked down as late because of this. Managers and supervisors have no respect for the retail assistants. The HR department have no idea what they are doing Having to pick clothes and hangers off the floor for the whole shift. Primark only cares about the customers The pay is only £8.09 per hour which is very low and shocking for central London and is only just above minimum wage. The toilets and locker room are dirty all the time. You have to ask for permission to go to the toilet The sickness policy is very harsh Staff have to walk around in a l love Primark top The majority of the staff are on 20 or 30 hours contacts.

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Pros

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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