company takes advantage of young people - Auditor Serve Legal Employee Review

2.0
15 Feb 2023
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Pros

flexible work for students free alcohol and groceries the delivery audits are fine

Cons

1. would spend 8 hours driving around a day to different audits, extremely stressful trying to find locations/find parking, area manager would promise the audits were close together but they be 40 minute drives from each other and from my house and I'd be assigned 10-12 a day - pay worked out less than minimum wage because of how long it would take, only 20p a mile for petrol so I was basically spending money to give this company free work, not worth it at all and extremely tiresome, intimidating and stressful driving in areas you don't know for hours on end 2. if you forgot one thing from your audit like to take a photo of the store/get a receipt/remember a name badge/someone else in your house answered the front door even though the delivery was an hour early you wouldn't be paid. it is so wrong that such a successful company would rather let their young staff take the financial burden whether that be £1.50 or £20 for their audits if there is one slight error. so on top of driving around all day, exhausted, humiliated, stressed and emotional, when you got home and had to upload all the reports, when you realised you'd forgotten something like to take a photo of the shop but you have the receipt as proof you were there, you realised you weren't going to be paid and neither were your expenses. 3. UNDERPAID SLAVE LABOUR !!!!!!!!!! you spend more money than you earn for this company. you'd typically be paid £3/4 an audit required to spend at least £1.50 on an alcoholic beverage which comes out of your pay. so in total you'd take home £1/2 an audit, or you'd just spend exactly what you were paid and take nothing home, or even spend your own money if there was nothing cheap enough - not worth the hassle and stress 4. put in intimidating, embarrassing situations - how is an 18 year old girl not meant to stick out like a sore thumb in a betting shop or arcade? middle aged men would laugh and stare at me, including the staff - sent to scary, dodgy pubs in rough areas 5. delivery audits are the only ones that are okay, stay in all day/for a time slot waiting for a delivery which has its benefits (especially if its a grocery or deliveroo one as a student as expenses are covered). however, if you're waiting on a delivery all day and it comes in the. evening, you've been trapped inside all day, stressed about not getting anyone else answer the front door and your reward is getting paid £3 and a bottle of Prosecco that will be paid for by expenses 2 weeks later. but again, if one simple thing goes wrong and your mum or housemate accidentally opens the door before you, you won't get paid and you've just spent £10 that you wouldn't have spent otherwise - again, not worth it

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Serve Legal Response
3y
Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review! Thanks for your feedback above. Please remember that you do not have to complete any audits where you feel the pay does not represent good value for you, as there is no obligation to complete any of the audits assigned. We complete regular internal audits of our hourly pay rates, and currently, our average hourly rate of pay is considerably higher than minimum wage (we do not include the cost of the item in this calculation, only net pay per audit). The quality of our pay is also supported by our wider feedback on this platform and others. In addition to this, we cover all travel expenses for public transport and make a contribution to mileage (which covers the average cost of fuel for the type of car used by most of our auditor demographic). For each audit, we provide a detailed briefing document to follow, and an Area Manager is on hand to help with any questions. Audit information should be carefully read and where necessary, points clarified with your Area Manager before going out to complete audits to ensure they are done correctly. If you do forget to do something on the audit, you should speak to your Area Manager straight away who will be able to advise. If the brief has not been followed, we may not be able to use the report but we do provide every opportunity to ensure our auditors have all the information needed to avoid mistakes and often we’re able to offer the auditor the opportunity to re-do the audit (though not always due to rotation restrictions). If you do not want to complete an audit, you should raise this with your Area Manager. It may on occasion mean the Area Manager cannot offer you the same work they intended to, but we endeavour to find suitable groups of audits for all our willing auditors. We complete work for all different types of clients which does mean our auditors will experience a variety of retail environments and due to the serious nature of the type of testing we do; we do have to ensure audits are conducted fairly and thoroughly and we must therefore have high standards of our auditors and processes. For the home delivery audit example you give, to ensure the audit is fair for the delivery driver, it is vital that the auditor is the person who answers the door and takes the delivery. For the vast majority of our home delivery audits, the auditor is able to pick a delivery slot so there is no need to wait in all day. Where an auditor must wait in for a sustained period of time, the audit is paid accordingly. If you live with other people and feel at risk of others answering the door which causes you to stress, you do not have to complete this type of work. We appreciate this feedback and take onboard your points but we do not feel it is a fair representation of working life at Serve Legal and we employ thousands of happy and fulfilled auditors who find our work to pay well and provide flexible opportunities to work around their other commitments. We would however be very happy to discuss this further so we can understand why this has not worked out for you and can understand if there are any actions we can take to make improvements, so please get in contact with us directly.

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Thanks for taking the time to leave us a review! If you do miss the social side of work, we try to recreate that as best as we can over on our Auditor Community group on Facebook, have you joined? https://www.facebook.com/groups/149419896384711
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Hi, are you sure you're reviewing the correct company? Just we do not operate in the USA and it says you are a Legal Assistant in Texas
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