Poor business model makes life very hard - Branch Manager Farmfoods Employee Review

1.0
Jan 4, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Great staff (but only because hard times bring people together)

Cons

•Overworked 60hrs+ •Only 1 day off a week most weeks due to lack management staff •No time back for overworking •Pay is a joke for what you do •Reducing delivery days so days when you do receive stock it's so much it can't be done with the amount of hours they give you •Insane amount of stocktakes even though results don't change •Threat of violence and abuse from customers and shoplifters daily (8 a day easily) •••No joke! Higher management will come in to do a visit and moan about leaves in the carpark and send someone you can't spare outside for an hour to sweep them up.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

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Cons

Micro management I’ve never experienced in 10 years of retail management. They’re living in the stone ages in terms of technology. Hourly staff get paid to 15 mins so upper management will try and shaft your pay in the name of prod, no clock in/out machine so you’re reliant on managers clocking you accurately. Everything they do is just weird and backwards. They don’t believe in employee law, 11 hour rest period being the big one.

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