Greggs
Greggs is a bakery chain. They serve sweet and savoury baked goods.
greggs.co.ukgood team great perks decent pay good experience
customers in how they treat you if there’s something you don’t have or something goes wrong even when you cannot directly resolve the issue
Greggs Employee, May 2022
The staff I work with are like a family
Alot of rota changes. Under staffed. Under paided now for what we do.
Greggs Employee, April 2022
Good discount and wage
Gets really busy
Greggs Employee, April 2022
Great team to work with, decent holidays.
Verbal abuse from customers on a regular basis, frequent shoplifting
Greggs Employee, March 2022
The other workers and the pay
the customers and the variety in shifts on top of the length of shifts
Greggs Employee, March 2022
Team
Changing rota.just eat .not enough staff
Greggs Employee, March 2022
pay and coworkers
annoying customers
Greggs Employee, March 2022
Some of the people I work with, regular customers we get in and having conservation with them
Self entitled customers
Greggs Employee, March 2022
Close to home so can walk
Working 12 plus hour shifts. Manager selfish
Greggs Employee, March 2022
The people i work with
The stress that comes with running a shift.
Greggs Employee, March 2022
staff and discounts
stress and workload
Greggs Employee, March 2022
friendly staff, great pay
long hours, rude customers
Greggs Employee, March 2022
Some tasks can be simple and therapeutic. Interactions with customers can be rewarding. Form close friendships with colleagues.
Understaffed. Manager who shouldn’t be qualified for the role. Workplace drama/gossip
Greggs Employee, February 2022
Pay is goof for students who need a job and also isn't the hardest jobs for the pay
Greggs Employee, February 2022
The team i work withthe
The constant stress from greggs as a company
Greggs Employee, February 2022
the pay as I'm under 18
not getting listed to and when I get underpayed nothing happens. Getting bossed around and not having proper training
Greggs Employee, February 2022
the job it’s self like what I have to do
managers and customers
Greggs Employee, February 2022
Working with respectable people
Friday night shift
Greggs Employee, February 2022
Discount
Last minute shift changes, being ignored about hours
Greggs Employee, February 2022
The team I work with
Occaisional long shifts
Greggs Employee, February 2022
Lovely customers and work with the most amazing people
The burns 🤣 and some times rude customers however that is normal when working in retail
Greggs Employee, February 2022
Boosting your confidence, manager and friendly customers
Greggs Employee, February 2022
Good pay, amazing team
Customers have no manners
Greggs Employee, February 2022
The team becomes your family very quickly, and management are just as easy to talk to as other colleagues
Some Customers- but that’s just part of the job
Greggs Employee, February 2022
Love my team. Everyone gets on and respects everyone
The customers
Greggs Employee, February 2022
Making friends and customers
Management and bullying
Greggs Employee, February 2022
Pay for under 18
How understaffed we are
Greggs Employee, February 2022
Colleagues amazing! Most will be friends for life!
Discounts and Bonus’
Most customers
Open hours
Nightshift customers get aggressive
Too much work on a close for the 3 staff members in
The Managers are lazy
Greggs Employee, February 2022
The teams are really friendly, i have worked in various locations & had no problem with fitting in, staff respect my position within the company. The regular customers are amazing
Greggs Employee, February 2022
Discount, Friendly Peers, Sometimes nice Customers, Nice environment
Very stressful! Quick pace all the time.
Management can be judgemental and rude, training is absolutely shocking, get no help at all, takes double the time it should
Greggs Employee, February 2022
The Discount, making friends with co-workers, holiday hour pay is based on average worked hours not base pay so can get more money
Upper management are neglectful and expect store managers and staff to pick up after them, not paid enough to deal with the amount of rude customers, can not stick up for yourself from nasty customers- greggs company rules, breaks are too short to get anything done, 5:30/6am starts and 18:00/19:00 finishes, all day management shifts, senior team members (management below supervisors and managers) expected to know everything supervisors and managers know and the same responsability but only get paid 10p more than team members. No makeup other than natural, Piercings are banned, even if covered with blue plasters, cannot talk about company experiences online as can recieve warnings/disaplinares. Terrible at hiring new people and expecting staff to get on with 10x as much work on same pay. Company no longer do a yearly bonus. Not paid enough for the workload and physical training. Very hard to get new uniform, worn through shoes very fast and have to pay to replace every 6 months. Company keeps adding more daily rules and tasks for staffs to do but no pay increase. No other company benefits and no sick pay
Greggs Employee, February 2022
50% discount
Profit share
Stressful, long hours, no flexibility, exhausting, no support from area managers, no loyalty
Greggs Employee, February 2022
The team is great
Can always have a laugh and someone to talk to
Stressful
Can never have enough staff
Greggs Employee, February 2022
• you get 50% off the price for greggs branded food but 25% off for other bits like the drinks and crisps.
• The staff members and management are friendly and easy to work with
• Everyone knows everyone in the company so word of mouth from one to another always flys around
• we are often understaffed with a lot of pressure to perform well and complete different tasks
• Breakfast time is always busy and you can be serving sometimes for 2-3 hours straight with no time for a break in between
• customers are often rude and feel entitled (but you are allowed by company rules to refuse service to anyone)
Greggs Employee, February 2022
Discounts
Lack of communication
Holidays are hard to get
Loads of stress
Don’t get paid enough
Breaks are bad
Managers are sneaky and lie a lot
Get disaplined very easy over stupid things
Greggs Employee, February 2022
The staff discounts
Simple ,relaxed job
Friendly staff
Rude customers
Early mornings
Little to no chance to sit down / tired feet
Greggs Employee, February 2022
The pay
The start time
Greggs Employee, February 2022
the benefits, the east access to get more hours
area management put a lot of pressure on staff
Greggs Employee, February 2022
The staff team, I’ve met a great bunch of people who support you greatly
Work life balance, underpaid, harassment from customers, managers thinking greggs is everyone’s life. Changing the rota 2 days before the week starts. Getting 2 hours taken off you because of the pandemic and company needing to save hours/money but working double your contacted hours because they need staff and hours for contracts still hasn’t been changed or gone up. It’s been 2 years and the company is thriving.
Greggs Employee, February 2022
The free food during breaks and at the end of a shift.
Some of the equipment/utensils are old or broken
Greggs Employee, February 2022
Discount on food.
Very stressful especially when you're short staffed, training is poor, very little support if you have a disability or "difference" you don't get paid if you stay late even when your manager expects you to stay to finish everything off.
Greggs Employee, February 2022
Rubbish management (bad attitude)
No consideration for home life and flexibility needed
Always have to work above contracted hours
Greggs Employee, February 2022
The wages
The hard work busy days
Greggs Employee, February 2022
My team
My customers
Previous managers poor attitude and effect on the team.
Greggs Employee, February 2022
The pay and how friendly my colleges are.
The customers
Greggs Employee, February 2022
Team, pay, discount & profitshare
Long hours, weekend work, barely ever enough staff to do what we need, expections of what we should be able to do verus what we can do are so different.
Greggs Employee, January 2022
Not the worse place to work plenty of scope to go forward and improve yourself if u want to
Long hours early starts
Greggs Employee, January 2022
People I work with
Under staffed, stressful, 4:30am starts
Greggs Employee, January 2022
Customer interaction
Always having to change staff rotas
Greggs Employee, January 2022
Colleagues (mostly)
Discounts/perks
No late finishes
Some colleagues
Early starts (5am)
Constantly busy from open to close
Senior team pay is only 25p more than team member with much more responsibility
Greggs Employee, January 2022
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