Avoid - Sales Assistant Primark Employee Review

1.0
Sep 10, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Can get a job there quite easily

Cons

Made to wait a long time when I asked to go to the toilet. Treated like school, not allowed to work too closely on the shop floor in case we talk to each other. We would be split up if found to be talking at all whilst working and we would be sent to other floors as punishment. Regularly accused of stealing from the tills and later found it was one of the supervisors, no apology given for false accusation. Uniform inspection at the tills in front of the customers including being asked to Pat our bras to show weren’t hiding our phones there. Told off for sitting on the floor during closing hours when folding the items to fix the tables. We were told we were not being paid to sit!

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reasonable, low stress, good PTO practices, consistent schedule

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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