Pros
They do make some nice tasting teas Met some good friends whilst working there
Cons
Whilst working at Bird and Blend I twice worked 9 hour shifts where I was so extremely busy and rushed off my feet that I wasn’t able to take a break for the entire day. I didn’t get a tea or lunch break, nor 5 minutes to go to the loo. On one of these occasions I was also on my period and by the end of the day had bled through my pad and onto my jeans. If this sounds extreme and you’re thinking “that can’t be possible, how can anyone not have 5 minutes to go to the loo in a 9 hour shift” then you don’t know what it’s like to work at Bird and Blend. Worst still was the culture of toxic positivity at Bird and Blend. If you ever expressed anything other than orgasmic levels of enthusiasm about the teas or the business management then you were sidelined as a negative person and excluded, gossiped about, shamed and shouted at. Those same upper management staff members who would visit the stores and tell you how “fabulous it looks!” with big smiles would then turn around and talk crap about those same things they had complimented 30 minutes later to someone else. They culture cannot and will not change when the people at the top are setting this example. Hard work is not rewarded, there is no rewards programme whatsoever, the only incentive to work harder is so you won’t get shamed, gossiped about or told off. You also cannot trust the positive reviews on here as I have been in meetings where current staff members have been told to go online that day and write a 5 star review to try and combat the bad reviews. Only apply if you too are a toxic person and enjoy being worked into the ground.