Waitrose reviews

Hounding to do overtime as branches won't hire more partners, despite admitting that they don't have enough current partners to cover the required hours. Holiday often rejected due to "inappropriate timings" despite the holiday rota not being full (it is published and can be referenced). Partners often forced to do tasks that they are untrained for, such as delivery and de-kit, service counters, or Welcome Desk as the hours required are not covered. Managers operate on favouritism and an 'old boys club', in that greater benefits (such as extra allocation of paid holiday) will be awarded to favourites of managers, despite no company or branch gain. There are very few hard working managers, all work falls on that of the basic partner, irrelevant of whether it is within their duties. Managers such as Customer Service managers or Replenishment managers stand around and chat, neglecting duties in place of creating the wholesome shopping experience that Waitrose implies it gives. Customers are the worst at Waitrose. Some customers seem wonderful but it is merely a lack of the terrible nature of the others. No possible career progression, though not expected as it is a shop job.

Some poor senior management especially from operations point of view warehouse illogically set out Bad training (if any at all) Too many chiefs Hard to gain promotion or move higher Routes are scheduled with NO breaks! Given routes that start before shift, so inevitably late to deliveries Verbal abuse by clients for being late etc.. Expect to be given an easy route when you start, which in no way is a true reflection of the work given afterwards Some staff are given preferential treatments on their manifest, so deliver much much less A GPS system which is outdated and Waitrose has not paid for traffic alert, so expect to be directed towards lots of traffic. Old and outdated handheld that persistently crashes and makes the job even more difficult Clothing that makes you sweat so that your underclothing is wet through Expect to carry tons of water up flights of stairs in London apartments with no lift and be treated like a second class citizen Filthy internal vans with mould where the food is Dirty food crates Great benefits, if you can afford them on the very low wages