Careless - Supermarket Assistant Waitrose Employee Review

1.0
13 June 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I had the flexibility to exclusively work early morning shifts

Cons

Soulless management who have no regard for personal wellbeing, worst of all they refused to fire somebody who regularly used racial slurs towards minority employees. The offending worker received a 2 week suspension and was 'demoted' to work on the shop floor instead of at the bakery. An absolutely foul old man who made people feel unsafe and uncared for at work. The management truly didn't care, instead they were considerably more interested in getting people to sign onto taking up extra hours. I wasn't fond of the general work ethic either, as a university student on a temp contract I'd be given the worst tasks whilst many employers contributed very, very little, if anything at all to the general operation of the branch. Presenteeism was rife and I quickly caught onto the fact that looking busy mattered considerably more to the management than being productive - after all there was always more work to do.

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