Pros
- Reasonable working hours so if you're looking for a job that means you keep your evenings to yourself this is ideal. - Good company pension scheme, I believe the company will match up to 10% depending on how long you've worked there. - You can get staff discounts at certain gyms and other establishments just for being employed by this company which is a really nice touch. - The work spaces and location are lovely clean and tidy and have a very welcoming appeal.
Cons
Unfortunately my experience with this company hasn't been great so I have a lot more cons than pros - Pay is relatively poor at this company. A lot of the jobs going at this company are telesales so the pay grades are related mostly to how many sales are made per month. There are 5 pay grades the top one of which can allow you to earn about £21,000 per annum. However to reach grade 5 is difficult and will require you to put in a lot of unpaid overtime, typically 30+ hours a month, to reach the targets required to secure this. - Being a sales job there are bonuses on offer if you hit certain targets. These targets are unrealistic even for the most skilled sales person and very few hit the targets. There are also a lot of occasions where employees have hit there bonus targets but not received there bonuses. The typical reasons given are that said employees call audits have not been up to scratch or the amount of overtime they have done is unsatisfactory. - Promotion prospects are generally poor. There are few opportunities available to be promoted and it seems to me that you generally have to have a very brown nose in order to get into these positions. - I find the way that management treat the staff at this company to be very poor in general. There is very little appreciation if someone has made an exceptional effort to meet the targets they are set. The general feeling I get from the company is that it is run like a school. While recently skimming through my contract of employment I half expected to find detention as part of the disciplinary proceedings. Employees opinions tend not to be encouraged and any constructive criticism is patronized and subsequently shunned. Overall I would not recommend applying here if you're looking for a lifelong career or to get out of a job which you are unhappy in. I personally feel that the reality of working for Adrian Flux is far from the perfect picture they paint you at interview stage. The company as a whole seems to be very greedy and makes record sales and profits on almost a monthly basis (or so we are told). Yet to feel the benefits of this growth you are expected, in the words of one of the managers, to "give us something for nothing". I personally think that this is an unreasonable mentality from an employer because in my eyes if you put in a hard days work you should expect a decent remuneration in return.