Waitrose reviews

I worked there one day and I quit the first day. Why? Firstly it took 5 weeks between interview stage and starting day. Nobody contacted me in the run up to my start date telling me what time to come in, who to ask for and what to wear. I made endless calls the day before with no luck only to talk to a line manager who did not care and said "I dont know, come in at 10am alright bye". This was supposedly my line manager. After calling the whole day that was my answer. Upon arrival of my first day I was brought up to a room and sat at a computer where I had to do my training online. I was left for 6 hours by myself to do this where nobody came back for me or to check on me. There was a lot of difficult stuff to get through with some things I did not understand and nobody around to ask. I was not given training face to face, shown around the building/staff area. I was not given a uniform or shown where to come in the following morning as it was a 7am start before the store even opened. It was a lot of stress and a lot of effort on my part to get people to try and help me even though they were the ones recruiting me that I decided to leave for the lack of efficiency and total unprofessional work ethic of the management.

Discount is not great considering the price of the food No union representation Poor rate of pay compared to other retail jobs (used to rely on the annual bonus to make it up - that bonus has been declining rapidly - this year chances are it will be between 0 and 3%) Pension fund is in a shambles Whole business being propped up by John Lewis sales They now expect you to do five jobs in the time given for one Section managers generally appear to have little training in leadership or management before being given an ipad, an air of authority and a total disregard for the welfare of their staff. They're implementing 'modern Waitrose' whereby you just keep getting pulled from doing a job on one section to do a job on another (whether you're trained or not) because the section managers can't plan. You then return to your original job (eventually) to find yourself getting a telling off for not having done it quickly enough (or at all). One branch rota. There isn't space for me to tell you all that's bad about that! Suffice to say, its not working. To save money they don't recruit until people leave (school age heading to Uni - happens every year at the same time and they know it does) so you end up short staffed, underpaid and overworked. Turnover is 80% plus in an industry where the average is 33% - and they wonder why?