Retail assistant: The experience could have been better. - Retail Assistant Farmfoods Employee Review

As a student at the time and on a 12 hour contract, I had the opportunity to take a significant amount of overtime due to the store being understaffed, however, this crept up to being more than full time hours (40+) due to staff summer holidays. Staff were not in a position to refuse overtime, or even acquire shifts that suited their needs (as someone who relies on public transport, my shifts often began at 6am, even though I had specified this to the manager in an interview). Gloves were not provided as part of uniform, which was quite ridiculous when staff would be unpacking frozen food deliveries for hours. Box cutters were also rare to come by.