Horrible company to work for - Retail Assistant Farmfoods Employee Review

1.0
Oct 15, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

15% staff discount, literally the one and only pro

Cons

Everything else you could imagine, unprofessional and corrupt managers, low pay, treated as if you don’t have a life outside of work and are expected to drop everything important in your personal life for Farmfoods, no sick pay at all unless you’re a manager, half of the shops have no security and the staff are expected to deal with shoplifters who often carry weapons and get aggressive and violent and throw things at us and hit us, depending on the manager, sometimes rotas aren’t sorted until the night before the shift, got told off for not wanting to work on my birthday which I’d already booked off months in advance and the manager ‘forgot’, so much wrong with this company, no employee benefits at all other than discount and a Christmas bonus, only apply for a job here if you’re desperate, so many people have quit since I started here, no one stays long and if you’re wondering why all of the staff look about 16, it’s because they can be paid less.

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5.0
Oct 6, 2022
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Pros

great managment team, competitive salary, flexible shifts

Cons

fast paced work environment, repetitive tasks

1.0
Sep 9, 2025
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Pros

15% discount Nothing else is a pro

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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