Nice people, few bonuses and inflexible working - Sales Assistant Primark Employee Review

4.0
5 June 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of employees and most are lovely to work with. Management was good at the time but became stricter as I was leaving. All under-25s got the same minimum wage salary, regardless of age.

Cons

Very few bonuses of working here, the only bonus was 10% discount but only 4 times per year (for a couple weeks at a time). Incredibly inflexible working. You were contracted a day(s) and time(s) and that was your shift for the duration. No shift swaps allowed, meaning if something came up, you had to use holiday (of which you had very little as a part-timer) or take it unpaid. Introduced new contracts whilst I was there which I didn't experience as I never moved over from my original contract which meant you HAD to work a day in the week AND a day at the weekend if part time. Incredibly difficult to work around given the inflexibility of the shifts, especially if you are a student.

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5.0
5 Mar 2026
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Pros

reasonable, low stress, good PTO practices, consistent schedule

Cons

leadership was not the best

2.0
5 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

You get lots of PTO up front as a part timer and can gain flex hours overtime. Get a 50 cent raise every six months.

Cons

Was told during onboarding that if a Christian comes into the store spreading the gospel, I have to kick them out. This includes the mention of the Jesus without the church invite. Managers claim its rude and if a customer does it, they get booted. Faced harassment from a customer and management didn't let me switch too a different department. Extremely high turnover rate and managers don't replace them, making your job more stressful during peak hours. Hard to use PTO. Little to no training. Too many bachelor and master holding part timers who get lucked out of moving up in the company. Managers give some people no task while pilling on multiple tasks on one person. Too many managers to deal with (and usually never find) and the full timers make you do the dirty work while they "unpack boxes". Its a pro-LGBT anti christian company. If they want to be pro-LGBT, than more power to them. But anti-Christian is discriminatory and unnecessary.

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