Enjoyed my time there! - Shop Floor Associate Primark Employee Review

5.0
May 5, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You meet so many nice people! In my experience the managers were really nice but were 'firm but fair' when needed to be, which is obviously a good thing. If you're looking at a shop floor associate, there is lots to do and the managers usually let you socialise, just as long as you're putting in effort doing your fair/assigned bit. You are praised for your hard work. You also get to work on tills (could be for 5 minutes, could be for an hour - completely dependant on how busy it is when they call you on) which is a nice change from tidying all the time.

Cons

Some shifts you may just be folding t-shirts for a solid 4 hours which does get very tedious. Just before I left they bought in a new (old) system which made it harder to get overtime (which I personally didn't need as I had 2 jobs at the time but I know the other staff wasn't best pleased)

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

You get lots of PTO up front as a part timer and can gain flex hours overtime. Get a 50 cent raise every six months.

Cons

Was told during onboarding that if a Christian comes into the store spreading the gospel, I have to kick them out. This includes the mention of the Jesus without the church invite. Managers claim its rude and if a customer does it, they get booted. Faced harassment from a customer and management didn't let me switch too a different department. Extremely high turnover rate and managers don't replace them, making your job more stressful during peak hours. Hard to use PTO. Little to no training. Too many bachelor and master holding part timers who get lucked out of moving up in the company. Managers give some people no task while pilling on multiple tasks on one person. Too many managers to deal with (and usually never find) and the full timers make you do the dirty work while they "unpack boxes". Its a pro-LGBT anti christian company. If they want to be pro-LGBT, than more power to them. But anti-Christian is discriminatory and unnecessary.

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