Platypus Reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(16 total reviews)

Donald Burkholder

100% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Platypus has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 16 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Platypus employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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16 reviews
1.0
24 Oct 2023

Bully and Unprofessional

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Team is fun to work with, discount is okay.

Cons

Upper management should manage the stores instead since they all like to micromanage. Bullying is rampant and it starts from the top. No matter what you do, your worth depends on the socks that you sell. Lots of stores don't have first aid kit. Most workers don't take their 10 minute breaks and were not encouraged to take it.

1.0
15 Oct 2019

Absolutely terrible

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great opportunity for young students with little experience to network and experience a retail environment. Awesome work mates, good discount.

Cons

Extremely political, unprofessional work environment. Causes natural friction between the team when certain members are given 5 hours a week, and others are given 20+. Absolutely spineless when you try and address any issue, upper and middle management are a group of children with no understanding of how to lead and think irrational, impulse decisions are the best way to cope with their problems. You will most likely not make your sales target, but that doesn't even matter unless the manager loves you and the area manager doesn't directly sabotage your place in the team. So unbelievably unorganised, very little training, often spring shifts and responsibilities on team with little notice - unreasonably strict rules while upper management themselves do not cooperate with said rules. Favouritism isn't hidden and you must essentially suck up to any superior to even stay within the company. Incredibly unprofessional dismissal process. There are no measures of success, no real opportunities to branch out into other careers and they will easily replace employees without a second thought. Really, really left a bad taste in many people's mouth and will never give this company my money or time. I cannot stress enough how absolutely terrible this experience is, don't do it.

5.0
31 July 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Good hours and pay - Nice discount

Cons

- A lot of standing and good but hard work

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