If you work here, be prepared for a wave of bureaucracy around every single internal process imaginable.
The terrible mandatory ‘training’ you have to do that everyone just flicks through without actually reading
As an apprentice you get absolutely minimal respect from both the apprentice team and the people on your project
The company pretends to care about its employees but when I was suffering from mental health issues and had to take sick leave, upon my return I was met with a barrage of abuse from the apprentice lead for newcastle saying I can’t take a single day off or do a single thing wrong or I’ll be fired on the spot and criticising me for needing time off
If you file a complaint with HR, expect it to come back to bite you
Unfair performance reviews
No recognition for anyone except boot lickers to senior people within the newcastle management team
Terrible pay for the amount you do
Sub par holiday allowance
All the benefits that were good have now been taken away
Very little opportunity for progression
Toxic work culture and a cut throat environment with people fighting for scraps - this isn’t the 1990’s, shouldn’t be this way anymore
No real sense of being part of a team
