Co-op reviews

Prepare to work for free, in the shadow of bullying and intimidation, and be more than prepared to feel lonely. One on one working all day every day, even when accepting deliveries. Deliveries often turn up together which means you have to fit 30 cages of stock into a stockroom built for 10 cages. Old buildings that are not fit for purpose. Area managers who really don't care less.

Absolute lack of training, supervision, feedback and support beyond my own questions, which made difficult to perform professionally. A line manager that didn´t follow internal process and procedures and the AWR regulations based, presumably, on personal affinities, undermining temporary staff. No internal feedback received by line managers in three months despite of an excellent feedback (internal survey and communications from hiring managers) received from external managers. A meeting organised (two managers, one employee in a formal room, privately during working hours) against the Employment Relations Act 1999 by which the employee has the right to be accompanied at a disciplinary or grievance hearing by a trade union representative, a fellow worker or the agency representative. The managers of this meeting stated that this was not a disciplinary hearing as such. However, considering that the only two topics discussed were negative feedback from the managers regarding the employee and it can be understood that this meeting was, in fact, a formal meeting (it took place in a meeting room, at a time previously arranged via email and with two line managers and only the temp, without any representation, colleague or witness), that goes against the statutory right of the employee (a temp in this case) to be accompanied to any hearing or meeting connected with "the performance of a duty by the employer in relation to a worker". The employee was verbally told that it was a 1-2-1 (whereas there were two managers in the meeting room) and he was not informed at all of the content of the meeting. No minutes were taken, no invitation of any other colleague, external manager or representative of the agency took place and, despite the verbal warning given. That is what a temp or new employee can expect from this department if the line manager doesn´t like them. All Apart from the report submitted to ACAS, the evidence accrued and a SAR pending. And other facts occurred during the weeks I worked there supported by relevant evidence that made me quit when I found another job to stop suffering this unprofessional behaviour by management that sometimes was close to bullying rather than supervision.