Management bully. Management brainwashed. Partners are not looked after at all. All about profits. Bank holidays worked and not paid back They refuse your leave and then you lose it because you haven't taken it within 30 days. Work is expected outside your normal hours at no pay. IE Training is in your time Not theirs at no pay. You're expected to be flexible like a rubber band but don't expect flexibility back. This is the new MODERN Waitrose. Holidays will be refused all the time when you have to try and book all SIX of your weeks over a year in advance. If you then want one day off for a funeral or wedding they have you over a barrel. Contracted hours are a joke and you're expected to be on call for the company at all times. Woe betide if you go sick. Nobody else can call in for you even if you're dying you have to call in yourself and explain you're symptoms. Even then they call you back every 12 hours to see if you have recovered.
The general public think this is a good company to work for, but believe me it's not any more. It may well have been 5 years ago but now it is just a money making machine that doesn't give a jot about the shop worker. Do not work for this company, shocking wages and very soon even the bonus will be taken away and put towards company profits. Oh and finally they have this thing called partner voice whereby your opinions can be heard. The people they select to sit on these councils have already been brainwashed into thinking like managers so there's no hope there either.
