Sub par - Till Operative Primark Employee Review

2.0
Feb 17, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Colleagues were very friendly. Pay was above the minimum wage. Supervisors were supportive of the staff. Looking back was an overall okay experience.

Cons

Management were beyond unreasonable, once kept behind to make sure all the piles of clothes were pulled literally millimetres forward. They also made getting a day off extremely difficult for anything. Supervisor who conducted my interview did not pass on any of the dates I couldn't work to management. Management blamed myself and generally felt like they held it against me. Management had no concept of having lives outside of the work place, people were given shifts on days they had exams etc and management would try to force them to work around. No benefits bar the 10% off that we had to use between 8-9am and 5-6pm in the two weeks before Christmas.

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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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