Sytner Group reviews about "bully"

Favouritism, Bullying, Ageist. Customer is not cared for once spent their money. Authorised holiday get cancelled afterwards. The culture from Head Office is great but does not really happen at some site's. Managers just expect you to change personal plans at last minute.

Work life balance management Bullying Bad culture

The people (including management and co-workers) were really passive-aggressive with their way of working, pushing it like it was proven to be gospel but was tried and tested in their niche. I felt pretty isolated even though I was part of a big team. Everyone knows better than you about your field of expertise, even though theirs lies outside the realm you've made a career of working in. Interactions from co-workers in different teams was non-existent which was ironic considering management "encouraged" cross team interactions. People outside of your immediate team are very guarded and siloed. The benefits were pretty much bottom rung. Don't be lured in by the promise of driving whatever car you want, you'll get the lowest common denominators made available to you. I believe I was a diversity hire to colour out a predominantly white team. Work-life balance was talked about during the interview but in practise you turned up to a daily 9am meeting and work till 5:30pm with a mandatory 1 hour lunch that had to be taken at 1pm (mainly due to meetings). There was an imposed dress code. Even if you're working from home if you're to communicate with people outside of your immediate team. Being part of the EA team was like being a member of a cult where the majority of people worked a certain way and the rest were bullied into working that way and repeatedly told about the merits of it. I was told to bring cakes and food on my last day by a portly colleague. Who couldn't even bother getting me a leaving card.

An absolute mess.A HOB that continuely outsmarts himself and lacks any enthusiasm to motivate the staff.Allows health and safety breaches, creates an uneasy environment and has less man management skills than a headless corpse.Promotes racism at an uncomfortable level.Uses bullying tactics to accomplish his goals.Sales staff seem drained and underwhelmed. Staff engage in toxic gossip culture.Managment too weak to stop.

Bullying tolerated by senior management Hours required deviate from contract Limited progression outside of sales

Sytner itself has great values which makes this difficult to write as it’s not a reflection of head office and co but managers let them down by not following them. I’ve experienced bullying, sexism and working here is toxic

Long hours, fined when ever they feel like it, bully environment

Management especially in the prep areas has took a massive downhill turn recently, mainly due to one manager in particular who will be all friendly and act like your best friend to your face, but the second you turn your back he is calling you names and belittling you to your colleagues. No less than 8 technicians alone have left in the last few months, either because they cannot stand working with him, or because he forced them out because he didn’t like them. And it’s no secret he is the sole reason so many people have already left, and the majority of the ones who remain under his control are seeking employment elsewhere. A big thing for me is that you should be able to trust and respect your managers, but this one in particular has no trust and no respect from any of my colleagues. He has on multiple occasions had things said to him privately in confidence, only for it to somehow get out and for everyone to know what was said. People have tried to complain about him, which seems to go nowhere, but as soon as he finds out who made the complaint that’s it, he is focused on getting you out any way he can, either by using the official channels and giving out written warnings for seemingly no reason, or by bullying to make the person quit if he can’t find even a tiny reason to write them up. A lot of the time he will hand out written warning off his own back without even letting upper management know until after he has already done it. This one person is the only real bad thing about working at carshop right now. Sure, the days are long and can be hard, but these are just nitpicking. If upper management actually read this maybe they will actually start looking properly at why so many people have left already and why so many who remain are unhappy and thinking of leaving - one manager in particular is the root cause.

A bullying culture within the Sales environment resulting in high staff turnover and a very unnerving workplace. Extremely poor used car prep and attention to detail.