Hermes job reviews

Freedom to work at my own pace,

The rain

Colleagues I work with. We are seperate to the rest of the warehouse working as part of the assets team we regulate ourself most of the time.

Treated as a number, poorly paid. People only progress by who you know not what you know, and if you keep your mouth shut and don't try to think or give suggestions...just blindly follow orders, mostly from people that don't really know what they are doing, less experienced than yourself.

Solid reliable work
Opertunities to progress
Choice of shifts
28 days paid holiday
Overtime paid at higher rate
Great teams

Cold in winter
Hot in summer

Work outdoors, flexible hours & above minimum rate

Bad weather

My customers

Getting paid 55p per parcel and the price of diesel

Meeting people

Waiting to pick up parcels

Good rates of pay

No respect from Hermes , quite stressful

Meeting people

Dealing with management

The pay, guaranteed hours, time and a half for overtime and double for holidays. Lots of great people to work with.

Long hours with heavy lifting. Volume of parcels can vary from very easy to very hard each night.

Your controlling everything...

It is depending some times you do have a good day and a bad day

No holidays, no sick pay,no breaks, low wages , parcel rate cuts s every year , no health and safety, work 6 days a week.

ON THE ROAD ALL DAY

LATE DELIVERIES

freedom to set own route

varied start times due to bad organising in depot

Meeting customers they are lovely

Fixed timing
Prompt payment

Public transport not available

Peaceful atmosphere sometimes ...

Racism.. and higher post being given to only the mangers or supervisors friends which is not fare at all .. and making people work I. 2 different departments without paying extra ( no equality)..

It help to motivate me

It’s stressful

When you leave the depot

No security

Driving
Radio music

Loading the lorry

Freedom to work my own hours. Getting to know customers.

No control over the number of parcels each day.

Early finishes

6 days a week, no sick pay, no holidays, no pension, no training, no information from management, system crashes almost daily

The people, it's like family

The people, it's like family

Seeing happy customers , talking to the elderly people who feels lonely

Nasty customers

Local

No care for people. Managers not making decisions based on customers but all about profit.

Easy

Little respect at times

Finishing time

The companies reputation.

Meeting my customers.

Dealing with depot staff, and conditions at sub depots

Easy enough and clean work.

Treated differently to EU workers
Expected to commit two weeks in advance and then get cancelled at 10pm the day before when it's too late to find a shift elsewhere

Good pay

Cool weather and sorting parcels outside

You are own boss

Finding addresses

I enjoy getting home and switching off. Not on call like my previous roles

You’re anonymous

It’s great, I get to drive all over delivering pallets to just a few places daily, and I choose to do just 3 days a week

Getting paid

Never noing if I'm in or not

The people who I work with.

The increasing volume

Stop and start when you like

Working in the rain

The people I meet

Working in the rain and snowv

not getting paid for breack

Night drive

Long hours, work to finish

poor standards, no assistance when needed, unreasonable parcel sizes, poor pay, bad time keeping by delivery drivers to depot

Job and finished

6 Days a week

left alone to get on with it

wages, only told 1 day in advance what I'm working the next day

I'm the boss

Waiting for manifest

• My colleagues - work well as a team, communication is good and the task gets done

• On your own initiative, support your self, managers don’t check up on you for the who shift - check your doing okay or if there is any issues going on or anything like that.

• Never know when you going to start or finish a shift due to no set rota for any set week so that can be a little annoying because you don’t know when at all you will finish.

• Company doesn’t seem to care about you at all, including your personal health

• Very repetitive job roles every shift, nothing changes and can always expect the same every day which is boring and can drain down your self esteem and even effect one mental health

being out and about delivering

not starting early enough

The people I work with

Management not helping as much as they could do and the wage for nights being rather low.

Good hours

No holiday or sick pay

The people

The way we work

The money?

Not knowing what shift I'm on one week to the next