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Brakes is a food and distribution company. They supply food and drink to UK catering companies.

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Brakes job reviews

Showing 23 reviews

  • Best thing

    Pay.

    Worst thing

    Management, understaffed, planning, no social time, toxic environment, colleague morale, no equipment, unsanitary, prone to floods & other shifts are give better resources and praise.

    2.3

    Brakes Storeman, March 2024

  • Best thing

    Left to get on with job

    Worst thing

    No breaks, no overtime. Hassled on mistakes

    1.8

    Brakes Employee, December 2023

  • Best thing

    The people there

    Worst thing

    The high totals

    7.5

    Brakes Warehouse operative, October 2023

  • Best thing

    Always being on the move

    Worst thing

    Nothing

    9.9

    Brakes Lorry driver, July 2023

  • Best thing

    Staff sales

    Worst thing

    Lack of equipment

    7.6

    Brakes Warehouse operative, June 2023

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  • Best thing

    Salary

    Worst thing

    Heavy manual handling
    Long days
    Stressful work
    Every day is different, no consistency

    1.7

    Brakes HGV driver, April 2023

  • Best thing

    Fellow operatives

    Worst thing

    Anyone whose not on shop floor, work load

    3.0

    Brakes Warehouse operative, November 2022

  • Best thing

    Some colleagues are nice, hard working and fun to be around. Supervisors are understanding.

    Worst thing

    Managment lies, acts as they care, but they don't, monthly salaries are underpaid - promises to be paid on the next month and when the next month comes, new mishaps are there and you never know if they paid all your hours. Too much overtime, according to contract - you have to stay reasonable amount and be flexible for them,while they pretty much abuse your hours.

    6.4

    Brakes Warehouse operative, September 2022

  • Best thing

    Rota and money

    Worst thing

    Mismanagement of warehouse and holiday process as well as company sickness policy

    3.5

    Brakes Warehouse operative, July 2022

  • Best thing

    Great guys to work with

    Worst thing

    Pay could be better

    9.8

    Brakes Warehouse operative, July 2022

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  • Best thing

    The freedom

    Worst thing

    Lots of manual labour

    8.3

    Brakes HGV driver, May 2022

  • Best thing

    I like my job. But sometimes I can be overloaded and can be stressful to get your work done. Which I care about customer service and don’t like letting people down

    Worst thing

    Nothing really bot traffic wardens lol

    9.5

    Brakes Employee, May 2021

  • Best thing

    Large company with good organisational ability who are well on top of health and safety. Vehicles very well maintained and procedures in place to prevent incidents. Intense training programme .

    Worst thing

    The new scanning system which made a physically demanding job even harder and will eventually lead to drivers leaving

    7.7

    Brakes HGV driver, April 2021

  • Best thing

    Decent pay

    Worst thing

    Hard work and bad management

    4.2

    Brakes Warehouse operative, March 2021

  • Best thing

    Working from hone, great team

    Worst thing

    Pay, workload, no progression

    4.6

    Brakes Customer support advisor, March 2021

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  • Best thing

    I did love it although it was demanding

    Worst thing

    Long hours no communication

    6.1

    Brakes Administration, February 2021

  • Best thing

    Wages

    Worst thing

    No knowing from one day to the next

    1.3

    Brakes LGV driver, January 2021

  • Best thing

    Staff sales

    Worst thing

    Just being a number

    2.5

    Brakes HGV driver, January 2021

  • Best thing

    Freedom

    Worst thing

    Not knowing when you will finish for the day

    6.7

    Brakes Driver, December 2020

  • Best thing

    Monday to Friday, weekends off,workmates that help you out

    Worst thing

    Getting away late in the mornings,having to load your own lorry and reloading the lorry after night shift have made a mess of it to stop you having damaged goods

    8.0

    Brakes Hgv driver, September 2020

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  • Best thing

    Meeting new people

    Worst thing

    Early starts

    6.7

    Brakes Driver, September 2020

  • Best thing

    Wages

    Worst thing

    They just see you as a number

    2.3

    Brakes Loader, July 2020

  • Best thing

    Staff shop

    Worst thing

    Bullying style management lack of leadership

    2.0

    Brakes Warehouse operative, May 2020