When Dobbies workers have taken our quiz, we will share with you their best things and their worst things about working there.
The team i work with
Red tspe
Dobbies Employee, April 2022
Treatment from staff and costumers
Dobbies Employee, March 2022
some of the other employees
customers and management
Dobbies Employee, February 2022
Relatively undemanding, nothing too difficult. i always get a 30min break halfway through my shift, and my colleagues and manager are down to earth.
Didn’t find out my wage until my second shift and i started 2 months ago and haven’t been paid yet so that’s iffy
Dobbies Employee, December 2021
The variety and the people I work with
Not really any
Dobbies Employee, December 2021
The team I work with
Expected to do too much, no breaks.
Dobbies Employee, November 2021
Colleagues
Easy to understand
Lack of staff
Hours
Heat
Long time on feet
Dobbies Employee, August 2021
Team work, meeting and helping customers and looking after plants.
Not enough staff, doing more than one job at a time.
Dobbies Employee, July 2021
Working as part of a team
Long hours
Dobbies Employee, July 2021
Meeting people, good team, local.
Short notice on rotas, not finishing on time, not getting breaks, bad management
Dobbies Employee, July 2021
loads to do never quiet
REALLY busy always doing something
Dobbies Employee, June 2021
People I work with
No respect from managers treated like a robot and they like I should be available to work when needed no work life balance
Dobbies Employee, May 2021
The other general staff I work with
Management
Dobbies Employee, May 2021
Mangers were extremely rude and ungrateful for all our hard work. Felt very underappreciated. Some customers were very nasty. Got breaks at ridiculous times. Paid minimum wage.
Dobbies Employee, May 2021
The people I work with
Too much stock
Dobbies Employee, April 2021
The atmosphere is lovely, all the workers are nice and take into account your feelings and when time off is needed
none of it! i love every bit of it
Dobbies Cashier, March 2021
Wage
Pressure and feeling anxious and unsafe at work
Dobbies Customer assistant, January 2021
My colleagues
The pay is dreadful. Minimum wage does not meet the expectation of the job. The majority of us are multi skilled and have years of experience. When supermarkets can pay 18yr old till operators £10 an hour is shocking that the largest garden centre chain in the UK can't do the same.
Dobbies Sales assistant, January 2021
Working with customers, we have a great bunch and it makes your day, some people are lonely just takes a few minutes of your time to make theres
Horrible customer,s
Dobbies Catering assistant, January 2021
Great for earning money and something to do.
Can be tedious and hard work. Customers can be annoying.
Dobbies Horti Customer Advisor, November 2020
Relationships built with coworkers, skills learnt, flexibility around shifts, caring management
Customers at times, breakfast rush early on a Saturday
Dobbies Waitress, November 2020
My colleagues
Management, Head office, workload
Dobbies Core expert, September 2020
People, managing team, working with plants
General manager, head office sending in too much stock
Dobbies Horticulture manager, August 2020
Have a reasonably good team at the minute
Target selling, cameras on you all the time, poor manager of section. None stop
Dobbies Customer service assistant, August 2020
Serving customers
Unrealistic budgets and targets
Dobbies Restaurant manager, July 2020
Discount
Treated poorly and not with respect
Dobbies Deputy manager, April 2020
People I work with
All critism and no praise
Dobbies Assistant restaurant manager, March 2020
The people
The amount of work expected
Dobbies Customer assistant, March 2020
The hours I work and how close it is too my house
We don’t have a lot staff or hours t get the job done
Dobbies Head chef, March 2020
I'm in control of my own department and I know that my opinion is heard and taken on board
Certain members of staff lack the get up and go attitude and drag there workload behind and therefore onto others
Dobbies Pet expert, February 2020
Some Staff are lovely and its busy
Youngsters that don't do anything except mess about and are to slow.
Dobbies Restaurant assistant, February 2020