Sainsbury’s
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Best thing
The colleagues and 5-A-Side football (organised by employees out of work)
Worst thing
Line manager is almost non-approachable. Contract was changed without permission. Little flexibility. Holidays get rejected despite 4 weeks advance. Heavily impacts on my studies.
Sainsbury’s Employee, March 2024
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Best thing
Helping customers find products or alternative produces to suit their need
Worst thing
Management rarely listens to issues that can be easily fixed until it becomes a major task to rectify.
e.g stock rotation,
Long life code check date code control
Waste management from damages in warehouseSainsbury’s Trading assistant, March 2024
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Best thing
The people here
Worst thing
The pay, the lack of benefits, the lack of hours in my department. No break pay. Dirty environment.
Sainsbury’s General assistant, March 2024
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Best thing
The team I work with.
Good rate of pay.Worst thing
Poor communication.
Sainsbury’s Employee, March 2024
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Best thing
Work with the best team. Feel safe. Can have a laugh.
Worst thing
Don't feel appreciated.
Sainsbury’s Trading assistant, March 2024
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Best thing
None
Worst thing
Being treated like a hamster on a wheel.
Sainsbury’s Warehouse operative, March 2024
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Best thing
Not a lot
Worst thing
To much put on you
Sainsbury’s Customer assistant, March 2024
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Best thing
The wages paid for the work done is adequate
Worst thing
Not enough cross trained coll
Sainsbury’s Employee, March 2024
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Best thing
The people
Worst thing
The rude customers
Sainsbury’s Customer assistant, March 2024
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Best thing
The best thing about my job is that I enjoin interact with my customers. I also enjoin work on the till, and scanning items.
Worst thing
Worst thing about my job is that I have very unsocial hours, so I don’t get much time to socialise with my friends or family.
Sainsbury’s Sales assistant, February 2024
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Best thing
The Colleagues
Worst thing
Lack of credit
Sainsbury’s Trading assistant, February 2024
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Best thing
Good pay
Worst thing
Constantly short staffed, managers tend to pick on the hardest workers to pick up the slack of others or give them extra jobs when others are taking their time. Holidays given out unfairly, not first come first served.
Sainsbury’s Retail assistant, February 2024
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Best thing
Pretty easy job to be honest
Worst thing
Early morning schedule, too much stress and running around to hit the target
Sainsbury’s Employee, January 2024
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Best thing
Get your work done and nobody bothers you.
Sainsbury’s Trading assistant, January 2024
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Best thing
Work life balance
Worst thing
The theft
Sainsbury’s Store manager, January 2024
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Best thing
If we all realise we are better if we look out for each other, it's great.
Worst thing
It's now just a job with a feeling of being afraid to be sick. Sad.
Sainsbury’s Shop assistant, January 2024
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Best thing
Leaving
Worst thing
More and more work gets put on us
Sainsbury’s Trading assistant, January 2024
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Best thing
The team i work with I get on with for the most part
Worst thing
They keep cutting hours sending people to other stores when we don't have enough sometimes to fully run our store and if anybody is on holiday or sick they don't try to find cover for the shift
Sainsbury’s Customer assistant, January 2024
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Best thing
The staff are friendly
Worst thing
Too much stress put on you and no thanks for it
Sainsbury’s Customer experience manager, January 2024
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Best thing
The few friends (top5)
Worst thing
Toxic
Stress
Don't get appreciated for the things you do
Sames doing the same jobSainsbury’s Employee, December 2023
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Best thing
Colleagues
Worst thing
Some of the Management.
Lack of being informed on changes.
Concerns not taken seriously or acted on.Sainsbury’s Customer experience assistant, December 2023
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Best thing
Working hours are flexible
Worst thing
People tend to leave you on self scan on ages and don't divide up work equally
Sainsbury’s Service Assistant, December 2023
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Best thing
Some of staff
Worst thing
No backing from management
Sainsbury’s Customer assistant, December 2023
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Best thing
Being on the road
Worst thing
Unsatisfied customers and poor management
Sainsbury’s Home delivery driver, December 2023
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Best thing
V supportive managers and colleagues
Worst thing
Music over p a in December
Sainsbury’s Customer assistant, December 2023
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Best thing
colleagues
Worst thing
customers and their attitudes towards things out of my control. i do not own the business so i do not get to make my own policies or rules!!!
Sainsbury’s Employee, December 2023
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Best thing
the people i work with
Worst thing
none
Sainsbury’s Trading assistant, December 2023
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Best thing
Supportive and friendly colleagues
Worst thing
Customers are rude
Sainsbury’s Customer service assistant, December 2023
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Worst thing
Very Stressful, no support from management, nasty horrible customers, bad for mental health, not being valued at all
Sainsbury’s Customer service assistant, December 2023
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Best thing
Staff is good over all. Employment benefits are good. Holidays time off are best.
Worst thing
Management, no communication on staff level. Not inclusive enough or flexible enough
Sainsbury’s Employee, November 2023
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Best thing
The company and distance
Worst thing
Amount of work and no real breaks
Sainsbury’s Employee, November 2023
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Best thing
Short working week.
Worst thing
Night shift
Sainsbury’s Trading assistant, November 2023
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Best thing
Going home and some of my colleagues
Worst thing
Overwork, not getting out of time,
Sainsbury’s Bakery assistant, October 2023
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Best thing
The pay, flexible hours
Worst thing
can be boring at times, some rude customers
Sainsbury’s Trading assistant, October 2023
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Best thing
Discount
Worst thing
I work alone in the corner of the store, and it’s hard to get help when needed, and customers sometimes talk down on me as I’m younger
Sainsbury’s Employee, September 2023
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Best thing
10% discount rising to 15% on Friday/Saturdays
Worst thing
No team work amongst departments, everyone’s very stressed all the time. Dishonesty and slyly adding extras into timed aisles when each colleague is held to a time per aisle … there are lots of negatives
Sainsbury’s Shift manager, September 2023
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Best thing
Great Working Environment. Closes to Toilet functions.
Worst thing
Storage in the peak seasons is hard to work around. You have to work as if you own the business its self.
Sainsbury’s Employee, September 2023
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Best thing
I’m out all day and it’s brainless just driving and delivering shopping
Worst thing
people are sexist and ageist towards me for doing a ‘man’s job’.
Sainsbury’s Delivery driver, September 2023
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Best thing
Flexible work hours
Worst thing
Management sometimes not sticking up for me when a customer is wrong about something.
Management not taking my autism and ADHD seriously.
Colleges being rude to me for no reason.Sainsbury’s Customer service assistant, September 2023
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Best thing
I like to keep active and it's a very physical job and love some of the staff they are like family can tell we care about each other not having any family myself the job makes it better
Worst thing
Most management can't do their job always putting me down making everyone's mental health really bad
Sainsbury’s Trading assistant, September 2023
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Best thing
Discounts
Worst thing
Hard labour, long shifts.
Sainsbury’s Employee, September 2023
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Best thing
Different people i meet
Worst thing
Attitude, disrespect and customers who make me scared
Sainsbury’s Customer assistant, September 2023
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Best thing
Freedom of being away from the store
Worst thing
Managers trying to reinvent the wheel
Sainsbury’s Delivery driver, September 2023
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Best thing
Good sense of community
Worst thing
Underpaid and overworked
Sainsbury’s CTM, August 2023
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Best thing
Staff discount.
Worst thing
No sick pay even for serious conditions until you have worked for the company for 2 years.
Everyone is getting taken to disciplinary meetings all the time for being ill, having bereavements etc.
Sainsbury’s Retail assistant, August 2023
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Best thing
It’s easy and means nothing at the end of the day
Worst thing
It’s repetitive it is boring and if I was there full time I’d go crazy
Sainsbury’s Retail assistant, August 2023
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Best thing
Flexibility
Worst thing
Very physically demanding as a result of constant cut backs in labour and a wage that isn't competitive with other retailers
Sainsbury’s Customer service assistant, August 2023
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Best thing
Meeting new people
Worst thing
Having rude customers
Sainsbury’s Employee, August 2023
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Best thing
pay and hours
Worst thing
-Dirty looks from colleagues
-managers treat you badly compared to other colleagues
- on my first day they didnt help or give me any trainingSainsbury’s Trading assistant, August 2023
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Best thing
Meeting new customers
Worst thing
Too much work with less people
Sainsbury’s Assistant manager, August 2023