Where do I start?
From the first day I realised I had made a big mistake, the lovely staircase you go up to do your interview? Yeah that’s for managers and visitors only so it’s the miserable side entrance for you.
There was no structured training at all, so my first few weeks there were incredibly stressful and miserable.
Pay is poor considering you get the absolute minimum from the company. You work the maximum time they can legally get out of you whilst receiving just 30 minutes of unpaid lunch. Company benefits are non existent and there is no room for progression due to the rampant favouritism and nepotism.
They foster a culture of fear, there is no transparency. The owner doesn’t talk to the staff aside from a handful of managers, most of which are related to him.
You may have heard of a supposed gym that he uses to store items of questionable taste. Yeah that’s true, the “gym” is a storage room for some let’s just say troubling memorabilia. There is a gym in the ground floor, however this is only to be used by the owner and his golden-boy heir to the throne.
People are fired frequently, including a woman only recently back from maternity leave who had previously worked there for years. Classy!
Everything is outdated and haphazard, attitudes are stuck in the 70s and there is no support for mental health issues.
Lastly I want to add that my manager was the most unpleasant person I have ever met.
She was passive aggressive to the extreme, often had mood swings that would catch you off guard and often made me extremely uncomfortable with some very obsessive tendencies.
My partner also worked in Demon Tweeks at the time, my manager at one time questioned me as she noticed our trips to the bathroom overlapped on occasion. This was a coincidence but led to us having to check to make sure the other was at their desk before going to the toilet.
She also had a strange habit of staring intently at my partner, not sure why.
She would question why I wasn’t working when I was simply reading the screen, she would make personal calls at her desk that would last over 10 mins yet send me passive aggressive messages when I quickly changed songs on my phone (you are allowed to listen to music). The list goes on.
Basically it’s a backwards company run by a fear-inducing misogynist with rampant nepotism and no HR department. No disciplinary procedures, no support and they’ll fire you the minute you’re no longer needed. Avoid!
