The AA

The AA is a membership organisation for drivers. They provide vehicle breakdown, insurance services and roadside assistance.

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The AA job reviews

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  • Best thing

    Flexibility. Always going to new places

    Worst thing

    Long shifts

    9.3

    Recovery driver at The AA, April 2026

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  • Best thing

    No two jobs are the same great place to work friendly and people focus focused

    Worst thing

    Having to book holiday so far in advance if you take time off, there’s nowhere else to do your job so you just need to catch up when you get back

    8.4

    Employee at The AA, January 2026

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  • Best thing

    The freedom, money , easy work

    Worst thing

    Motorcycle Recovery,

    9.6

    Roadside patrol at The AA, August 2025

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  • Best thing

    The people who deal with the day to day

    Worst thing

    Pay
    Flexibility

    3.5

    Claims handler at The AA, June 2025

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  • Best thing

    Empowered to make own decisions

    Worst thing

    Can be micro managed

    6.1

    Recovery driver at The AA, October 2024

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  • Best thing

    Pay

    Worst thing

    The extra overtime we have to work.

    8.6

    Recovery driver at The AA, July 2024

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  • Best thing

    The people I work with

    Worst thing

    the hours

    7.8

    Customer service advisor at The AA, May 2024

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  • Best thing

    I get to do what I love, helping people

    Worst thing

    Picking up customers that moan about how long they’ve been waiting

    9.1

    Recovery driver at The AA, May 2024

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  • Best thing

    Engaging and helping customers in vulnerable situations

    Worst thing

    Work load and delays

    9.2

    Customer service advisor at The AA, February 2024

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  • Worst thing

    Poor wage
    Staff treated poorly
    Overworked

    3.3

    Claims handler at The AA, February 2024

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  • Best thing

    Diversity

    Worst thing

    Long hours, not enough breaks, stressful situations

    6.2

    HGV driver at The AA, January 2024

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  • Best thing

    Work Environment

    Worst thing

    Work life balance

    7.0

    Technical support at The AA, November 2023

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  • Best thing

    We have good work set every day, we are treated fairly and we have regular catch up meetings

    Worst thing

    Not paid well, lack of staff, have too much work sometimes

    6.7

    Claims handler at The AA, July 2023

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  • Best thing

    The people and lower management

    Worst thing

    Pay is not competitive and staff are undervalued.

    7.1

    Insurance advisor at The AA, July 2023

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  • Best thing

    Team mates are good.

    Worst thing

    Everything else.

    3.0

    Customer service advisor at The AA, May 2023

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  • Best thing

    Job satisfaction

    Worst thing

    No sense of what we need at the roadside from indoor staff/ upper management

    7.0

    Employee at The AA, March 2023

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  • Best thing

    The people I work with

    Worst thing

    The people who change how we operate have never done our job so they just make things more difficult than they need to be

    5.5

    Customer advisor at The AA, November 2022

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  • Best thing

    The people

    Worst thing

    Pay, long hours, constantly monitored and micromanaged

    2.6

    Call handler at The AA, August 2022

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  • Best thing

    Most members of staff are lovely

    Worst thing

    The constant abuse from customers
    No career progression
    SSP after 7 days absence
    The stress and anxiety this job has given me

    2.3

    Customer service at The AA, August 2022

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  • Best thing

    Home working

    Worst thing

    Stress, poor pay

    4.5

    Customer advisor at The AA, June 2022

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  • Best thing

    Pay

    Worst thing

    Long shifts 11 hours

    6.4

    Patrolman at The AA, January 2022

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  • Best thing

    Helping people.

    Worst thing

    Pressured by performance monitoring. Dangers on the road, bad drivers and terrible cyclists.

    3.0

    Patrolman at The AA, September 2021

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  • Best thing

    Being at home

    Worst thing

    Stress. Lack of communication. Treated unfairly.

    5.0

    Customer advisor at The AA, August 2021

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  • Best thing

    Pay
    Seeing different parts of the country

    Worst thing

    Management ethos towards staff
    Lack of work/life balance
    Pressure from management

    1.5

    Roadside patrol at The AA, June 2021

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  • Best thing

    Regular work, paid holidays

    Worst thing

    Not enough support. No weekends or bank holidays off. Find it difficult to book time off if needed

    4.6

    Customer service at The AA, May 2021

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  • Best thing

    Customers

    Worst thing

    Hours to long for such disruptive working times
    Not family friendly

    6.0

    Mechanic at The AA, April 2021

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  • Best thing

    Mobile working and meeting intrsting peolle

    Worst thing

    Management have no idea how dangerous our job really is and do not care we are just a number

    1.5

    Roadside patrol at The AA, March 2021

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  • Best thing

    Own boss, good pay, simple jobs if you have enoigh experience

    Worst thing

    Motorways and fast roads can be dangerous.

    8.2

    Patrolman at The AA, December 2020

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  • Best thing

    Choose own hours

    Worst thing

    Nothing it’s a great job

    9.8

    Employee at The AA, December 2020

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  • Best thing

    Social aspect and pay is okay

    Worst thing

    Late and some long shift
    Work every other weekend

    7.3

    Customer service advisor at The AA, December 2020

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  • Best thing

    People and environment

    Worst thing

    Customers rude at times

    9.8

    Employee at The AA, October 2020

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  • Best thing

    Flexibility, improving others

    Worst thing

    Demands on time

    9.1

    Employee at The AA, August 2020

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  • Best thing

    I enjoy my job delivering and excellent customer service to customers

    10

    Customer advisor at The AA, August 2020

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  • Best thing

    Very friendly, very focused, good pay and perks, good training and development

    Worst thing

    Working the shift pattern which includes nights and all over Christmas and New Year

    9.9

    Customer advisor at The AA, July 2020

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  • Best thing

    Making own decisions

    Worst thing

    Last job a shift

    9.1

    Employee at The AA, July 2020

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  • Best thing

    My own boss most of the time.

    Worst thing

    Difficult to get direction quickly when something unusual occurs. The office don’t understand the complexities of the job.

    8.9

    Employee at The AA, April 2020

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