Primark reviews

Terrible people management by those at the top who speak to supervisors and operatives like slaves. They dictate how the store should be run, yet have no idea how to practise what they preach. Lack of praise and progression within this business unless you get through the back door. The pay is minimum wage for shop floor staff and a few pennies more for supervisors. You get no discount, no bonus, no clothing allowance, no benefits. Nothing. You will get disciplined if work more than 40 hours in one week. You get accused of stealing by the manager. You work extremely hard long repetitive back braking days on your feet without a break. And the customers have absolutely no respect for what you do!

*sigh* where do I start?? - The management; there was a number of managers in my store and I found the majority of them to be unprofessional, rude and often suffered from power trips. None of them bothered to learn my name but were quick to jump down my throat if I had done something wrong. - Although my job in fitting rooms was easy to pick up, I also found it very repetitive. I would've preferred to have done different roles around the store so I could've had better experience for future jobs because I sure as hell wanted to get out of there asap. - We, in the fitting rooms, were often held responsible if stock was stolen from the store, despite there being a full security team in place. - HR were absolutely hopeless. The amount of times I requested holidays and had no response was shocking and made it difficult for me to plan anything, when I called in sick, the HR manager was unavailable so I had to trust a random sales associate that I didn't know to pass on the message to my department and we were very often underpaid and not paid on time. The was also a lot of part-time staff that was made to work full time hours. - Due to the hectic manner of the store, I often had to face the wrath of rude and dissatisfied customers.