B&M job reviews

People who I work with

Minimum wage
Manager

Some of my coworkers and the discount

The management team being disrespectful, rude and lazy. The short breaks, no chairs at tills, they depend on part time staff too much I.E. instead of putting a full time or an adult staff member on main till they normally put me or other younger part time staff which is stressful and do not check in

Easy

Hire anybody, managers don’t care about individual skills, only care about getting out on time, left to pick up the slack for others. Impossible to change hours/shifts, keep you until 11/12 at night to clean up when shop closes at 8, generally horrible atmosphere, overworked and underpaid

Working with a wide range of different people from different cultures

Long hard shifts hitting productivity targets

some of the people

the people

Get unwanted overtime and if you ask to go back to contracted hours they say NO. This is especially hard as a student that needs time for classes, studying and a life.

Staff are amazing

Customers treat you like rubbish
Have to stay late if things aren’t done

The people who I work with

Not enough staff, too much is expected

The employees, everyone there is close like family. you are always welcome and everyone is really kind

the customers we tend to get are not usually the happiest, we still give the best customer service:)

The money

Causes back and knee pain, Long shifts (12 hours)

The experiance, some members of my team

Other members of the team not pulling their weight, stressful understaffed and underpaid

Paid for every min and guaranteed hours.

Pay and lack of respect.

Most people are good to work with

Moody customers that don’t get their own way (Karen’s)

My managers are really friendly and actually listen to you if you have any issues/queries. They also try to place you where you want to be so you are happier

The customers can be rude sometimes

The people you work with.

It's very busy and not enough staff

Great colleagues

We don’t have enough people working at my store and the manager refuses to hire more people

More breaks than most retail jobs
Easy job

Management are lazy, not proactive and unable to delegate
Favouritism
Unequal opportunities
Lack of overtime
16 hours is maximum contract hours
Minimum wage
No rewards

Other colleagues on my shifts

The management

Making new friends that’s about it

You are just a number you are tracked on how many pallets you work so if you are set 3 and only complete 2 you get a disciplinary letter sent home and put under watch by your store manger. You constantly get called off your breaks and get set many peoples jobs and expected to get them all completed in the space of one persons job if not competed once again get a disciplinary letter sent home. Man here’s don’t listen to you and is hard to book holidays off or even talk to your mangers. I got a letter sent home because I got my mum to phone in sick for me as I got rushed to hospital early hrs before my shift. Your are treated very unfairly in B&M the manger treats you with next to no respect

Engaging with customers and making their day happy as well as my own

There are no bad pointers about my job role

Meeting people

Varying hours

Interacting with the customers

The long hours standing in the one place

The People I Work With

Not Guaranteed A Lot Of Hours

Good staff, good hours, decent location.

Poor pay and not enough opportunities to progress.

The customers are very nice

Staff not helpful

The team

Hard work low pay

A great boss, working as a team,

Customers

The people I work with

The pressure the management put us under

workload cannot be completed in timeframe, supervisors and managers are unqualified and incompetent

Some colleagues

Management lack of support and structure

Not being listened to about my health problems and alot of favorites

Helping customers and colleagues.

Constant standing at the tills.

People you work with

No respect from manager

Overall work atmosphere

Not enough pay for amount of effort put in

My colleagues

We get verbally abused on a daily basis, customers have zero respect for the staff, we don't get paid anywhere near our worth, we don't even get 2 days off at Xmas as we are back open on boxing day, zero family time after making them a fortune right up to the death on xmas eve...the list goes on!

Easy to do

Shift times

Some Work colleagues are great

Poor management,
Bad health and safety
Unclean and staff and management don't care.
Expected to do 2 or 3 peoples work by yourself,
Permanently understaffed,
Some work colleagues get away with doing nothing all shift,
Staff members acting like management when they're not management

Can't pick the list is to big

The people I work with

Nothing your expected to do everything but get know acknowledgement

Working for little respect

Early shifts, control of my Warehouse and work life balance.

Pay could be better.

They are very flexible for parents and when they can work

Management don't appreciate you and no way of progressing your career

Poor technology. Targets too high.

Customers and colleagues

Been put more work on top of you and expecting it done when your only the one working deliveries and been shouted for sorting codes and seeing to customers as well. Very stressed 😫

The only good thing is the employees.

No communication between management as well as between management and the staff. Boss micromanages

Always have a good laugh with the staff.

The pay is way behind other stores. Stores also have a limit to how much they can spend on toiletries, PPE etc.. Ranging from £10 a week to larger stores around £30 I believe.

Team attitude
Some freedom to set own agenda

Technology
Training
Systems & Procedures
Logistics

Low hrs always pressured to perform un achievable goals