Sales Assistant - Anonymous employee Primark Employee Review

2.0
Sep 21, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Friendly staff, some customers are lovely which may take your mind off the hard work, time goes quick as you are always kept busy.

Cons

Long hours, you dont have a choice in overtime unless you finish before the store closes, low pay especially for under 18s, standing up all day, not even sitting down on tills by the end of a full day shift your legs will feel like they have been cut off, supervisors are generally okay but some managers expect you to do more than any human being is capable of doing and get frustrated or look at you as if you are stupid or even laugh when you dont know something. Defo not worth the money however when you only work part time it can be bareable to a certain extent, never expect a superior to help you and if they do expect them to complain about it. Always understaffed.. sometimes even managers need to fill in for work staff

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Cons

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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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