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DismissPoundland is a discount retailer. The majority of their products are sold for £1.
poundland.co.ukPoundland job reviews
Showing 103 reviews
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Best thing
Routine,
Worst thing
Clicky, managers attitudes ,never happy and bring people down from the getgo as soon as you turn up
Poundland Cleaner, January 2023
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Best thing
Friendly team that I work with and perks of the job like a 10% discount card
Worst thing
Customers are sometimes quite rude
Poundland Sales assistant, December 2022
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Best thing
It’s a relaxed atmosphere even though it’s nearly Christmas
Worst thing
Can’t get boring
Poundland Sales assistant, December 2022
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Best thing
Some of the stuff and Customer
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Some of the stuff and at the moment is being cold as we have to have the doors open
Poundland Sales assistant, December 2022
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Best thing
It's something I enjoy
Worst thing
Being put in for random shifts and more hours than I wanted to work
Poundland Sales assistant, November 2022
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Best thing
Meeting customers
Worst thing
Not enough hours
Poundland Sales assistant, November 2022
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Best thing
The people I work with
Worst thing
That I’m still in education and I have to only do the days I’m available and then it gets held against me I am limited on days if I ask to change a odd day to see a family member and people who arnt supervisors act like they are and gossip about you and constantly feeling like your doing everything wrong at work
Poundland Sales assistant, November 2022
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Best thing
Smoke breaks
Worst thing
Given job after job when I haven’t finished the previous job
Poundland Sales assistant, November 2022
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Best thing
my colleagues
Worst thing
Not enough notice for your rota
Poundland Sales assistant, October 2022
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Best thing
My sales assistants I work with
Worst thing
My manager and the company
Poundland Supervisor, September 2022
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Best thing
Gr8 team gr8 customers
Worst thing
Stressful, Undervalued, under appreciated and sometimes unsafe.
Poundland Store Assistant, September 2022
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Best thing
My team we get on really well and I have made some very good friends
Worst thing
Management do not care for staff area manager has no people skills and just comes in to stir the pot and verbally abuse staff
Poundland Sales assistant, August 2022
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Best thing
I get on well with colleagues
Worst thing
Certain staff members
Poundland Sales assistant, August 2022
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Best thing
Money, and a schedule
Worst thing
Bring on my feet with not breaks
No communication
I do everything while everyone does notjingPoundland Store assistant, August 2022
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Worst thing
Health and safety risks, no security guards and customers are disrespectful
Poundland Sales assistant, July 2022
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Best thing
Some employees
Worst thing
The way your spoken to by management
Advertising your job without knowing
Discriminate mental healthPoundland Sales assistant, July 2022
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Best thing
Some of the employees and nice customers
Worst thing
Some employees abd the mean customers
Poundland Sales assistant, July 2022
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Best thing
Some of the other sales assistants as well as a couple of
Poundland Sales assistant, July 2022
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Best thing
Visual merchandising in fashion, the team.
Worst thing
Management, company policies, pay, lack of communication, recognition and respect.
Poundland Assistant manager, May 2022
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Best thing
The people I work with
Worst thing
The lack of communication. Only being allowed to book whole weeks holidays at a time.
Poundland Sales assistant, May 2022
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Best thing
Getting on with members of the team
Worst thing
Managers are not doing their part in order to make things fair for everyone! Head office needs to tackle this
Poundland Sales assistant, April 2022
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Best thing
Great colleagues
Worst thing
Standing all day
Poundland Sales assistant, March 2022
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Best thing
The best things about Poundland is the discount and you meet different people
Worst thing
The worst thing about poundland is the manager they moan about not pressing the buzzer for more staff when their is a cue or they moan if your not quick enough doing your jobs that your asked to do their has been times when I have thought on the way home about quiting
Poundland Sales assistant, March 2022
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Best thing
Fellow staff members, friendly customers, getting to do physical work can be very satisfying
Worst thing
Managers will let you be abused and screamed at and do nothing, head office want everyone on 0 hour contracts and to keep us desperate for hours so we’ll come in whenever we’re asked. They don’t respect us, just exploit our labour and make our lives unliveable.
Poundland Sales assistant, March 2022
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Best thing
Team spirit, the community, staff discount
Worst thing
The workload
Poundland Supervisor, February 2022
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Best thing
Really kind welcoming staff. Flexibility.
Worst thing
Customers
Poundland Sales assistant, February 2022
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Best thing
The team
Understanding between usWorst thing
Shoplifters
Abuse from customersPoundland Employee, February 2022
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Best thing
Discounts, vouchers
Worst thing
No security, constantly getting robbed, standing all day, selling product focus to every customer then getting in trouble if you don’t
Poundland Employee, February 2022
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Best thing
People work with
Worst thing
How get spoken to
How much work is expected of mePoundland Supervisor, February 2022
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Best thing
Nice employees
Worst thing
Sometimes short staffed
Poundland Sales assistant, February 2022
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Best thing
We all have lots of fun
Worst thing
When the place gets to full of people
Poundland Sales assistant, January 2022
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Best thing
Managers and staff in charge are brilliant
Worst thing
Standing all shift with bad knees
Poundland Employee, December 2021
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Best thing
the team i work with and the job role
Worst thing
customers can we quite rude towards staff
Poundland Sales assistant, December 2021
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Best thing
All the colleagues are so nice
Worst thing
Sometimes there is nothing to do
Poundland Store assistant, December 2021
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Best thing
The team.
Worst thing
The equipment and the type of people that shop here
Poundland Sales assistant, December 2021
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Best thing
My colleagues and the nice customers
Worst thing
We get treated poorly by customers and we have no chairs at the till we have to stand the whole time
Poundland Retail assistant, December 2021
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Best thing
Delivery shifts when shops is shut
Worst thing
Management, hours , being forced to push product focus and getting shouted at if it’s not 7% rotas one day in advance
Poundland Sales assistant, November 2021
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Best thing
Nice customers
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Not so nice customers
Poundland Sales assistant, November 2021
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Best thing
How friendly the staff waso the Manager was lovely
Worst thing
Deliverys
Poundland Sales assistant, October 2021
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Best thing
What was great was the interaction with customers and coworkers
Worst thing
the Late shifts
Poundland Sales assistant, October 2021
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Best thing
My colleagues, the days I work which are really good for me
Worst thing
Some of the customers and the abuse we can get from them and sometimes how we get spoken to on the shop floor by management
Poundland Sales assistant, September 2021
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Best thing
Meeting differnt people
Worst thing
No one else cares or works as hard as myself
Poundland Sales assistant, August 2021
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Best thing
My manager and staff respect me for me
Worst thing
Not been appreciated by the top boss for what I have achieved on my own.
Poundland Assistant manager, August 2021
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Best thing
Customers and collegues
Worst thing
Late nite
Poundland Sales assistant, August 2021
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Best thing
The staff
talking to customers help them with their needs
Serving customers
Working deliveryWorst thing
Facing up the store
Poundland Sales assistant, July 2021
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Best thing
Meeting new people.
Worst thing
Standing in the same spot for the entire shift, no help from management.
Poundland Sales assistant, July 2021
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Best thing
Customers
Worst thing
Having to much put on you
Poundland Sales assistant, July 2021
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Colleagues
Worst thing
Everything else breaks pay management
Poundland Employee, June 2021
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Best thing
The people
Worst thing
Sexism. Boys club
Poundland Manager, June 2021
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Best thing
The team and management I work with are all lovely and they help create such a welcoming experience for new employees and customers.
Worst thing
The walk to the warehouse
Poundland Sales assistant, June 2021