Great Role, Terrible Hours - Assistant Buyer NEXT Employee Review

There is an ethos on the buying department of ‘if I sufffered when I was a trainee then you’ll suffer too’. I have seen trainees crying under the pressure. I left because it was a completely thankless job, you’d be expected to work 7:30-6/7pm with no lunch break. The employment contract states that you must work according to business demands which allows them to ask you to work all sorts of hours without a break. The vast majority of the people on the buying floor are lovely, but a few people made me dread coming into work. And don’t expect flexi time as a trainee/low level assistant - you have to be with the samples.