Horrid! - Store Manager Smiggle Employee Review

1.0
17 Feb 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The children are so funny!

Cons

No back of house area, no toilets the nearest public toilet takes 10mins to walk to often is dirty and don't have toilet paper, No fridge or mircowave and even got told to not let the staff keep bottles of water on the stock racking so no access to drinking water throughout the day. No where to hang your coats or bags and the stockroom is overflowing with stock which meant for the most of winter my coat has been on a floor sometimes still wet from rain when I put it on at the end of my shift. No hot food and no keep refrigerated food items can be taken in to work. You can hear the loud music clearly in the back meaning no where for 5mins peace. The RMs and HO are not realistic at all. They are rude and can not show you enough that you are worthless to them. Even though the turnover is nearly 80%. Always on a tasks means you never have time for customers. If you ever fall behind on the endless amounts of tasks they will belittle you! I have never been so overworked, stressed and de motivated in my whole life. They only think I learnt since working here is how to hold my wee for longer and that no matter what I do I will not be good enough for Smiggle.

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4.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Friendly atmosphere, lot of importance to child friendly workplace health and safety.

Cons

Blind eye to specialised masters IT degrees and prior SCM work experience which some of their retail assistants have from their past. Too much store politics and favouritism. Unequal expectations from newer and older employees at same level. “Drop and serve customers first” rule doesn’t apply to older employees, only expected out of newer employees even if they are doing multiple tasks. Intimidating way of telling mistakes which were made unknowingly. Makes you dull for the rest of the shift. Some older employees say they are fixing the back room but are actually not, just taking breaks, leaving you alone on the shop floor.

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