Good place to work if you looking for good salary in Retail - Senior Department Manager Primark Employee Review

4.0
Jan 18, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- clean cash( there is nearly no discounts for employees but you get good salary to balance it) - established brand which is taking over the world and expanding which gives you opportunity to progress if you wish to - if you have good Store Manager of the store you can organize your days off if you are doing some activities during the week ( Tue, Wed, Thur. Other days forget it)

Cons

-48 hours minimum so you start 9:30am and going home sometimes at 8pm. - not much of work life balance place - if yo get a "weekend off" it is a Sunday before the week starts and Saturday after 5 days of work as rotas are build SUN-SAT. (not Mon - Sun). - No bank holidays off, no New year and Christmas days off. You work certain amount of Bank holidays as per contract. - No holidays possible between end of Nov and 2nd week of Jan.

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5.0
Mar 5, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

reasonable, low stress, good PTO practices, consistent schedule

Cons

leadership was not the best

2.0
May 5, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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