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Best thing
The staff discount
Worst thing
The mangers
Waitrose & Partners Sales assistant, January 2023
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Best thing
Customers are patient at most branches, great discounts and benefits, flexible managers in terms of hours.
Worst thing
Sometimes customers do become a bit rude but it’s not often, sometimes difficult to book a day off due to having to book it a month in advance.
Waitrose & Partners Supermarket assistant, January 2023
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Best thing
Partners treat each other with respect
Worst thing
Very picky and fussy and slow you down
Waitrose & Partners Employee, January 2023
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Best thing
The customers
Worst thing
Can get very busy
Waitrose & Partners Employee, January 2023
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Best thing
The pay is very good.
Partners look out and look after you when you need help and support.
Getting to know the customers very well.
Learning new skills, gaining more experience and buliding up confidenceWorst thing
Dealing with difficult customers.
Store gets very busy over the weekend.
Sometimes managers can get very misleading towards others.
Not getting enough time for breaksWaitrose & Partners Supermarket assistant, January 2023
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Best thing
Environment - all my coworkers are really lovely and I’ve got a solid group of friends from it. Also the responsibility at 17 i had been there for 1.5 years and they allowed me to train people because I was good and didn’t think that I was too young
Worst thing
Management - I wasn’t told when i was even meant to start working when i first got the job and had to call head offices.
Waitrose & Partners Employee, January 2023
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Best thing
Being recognized
Worst thing
Shift hours not ideal
Waitrose & Partners Shop assistant, January 2023
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Best thing
Amazing team of partners
Worst thing
Witnessing the stress levels of a very stretched team during high sickness levels
Waitrose & Partners Supermarket assistant, January 2023
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Best thing
The team I work with by a mile
Good training/benefits
Reputable companyWorst thing
Disorganised at times/ organised chaos
Waitrose & Partners Supermarket assistant, December 2022
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Best thing
Left alone most of the time
Own boss
Early finishes sometimesWorst thing
Late finishes sometimes
Unsafe addresses sometimes
Driving stress
Parking stress
Ticket stress
Can be back breaking
Heavy loads
Always in a rush to be on time
Cram too many deliveries in a day
Want the delivery xomplWaitrose & Partners Home delivery driver, December 2022
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Best thing
Get to meet lots of people and work with some good people
Worst thing
Other employees can make your job harder,
Managers don’t respect your decisions and a work life balance isn’t taken into account sometimesWaitrose & Partners Sales assistant, December 2022
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Best thing
The people and perks
Worst thing
The minimal training and sometimes there is grumpy old customers
Waitrose & Partners Sales assistant, December 2022
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Best thing
very easy
most other employees are chillWorst thing
annoying/rude customer
Waitrose & Partners Supermarket assistant, December 2022
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Best thing
Making friends, benefits.
Worst thing
Managers and being understaffed.
Waitrose & Partners Duty manager, November 2022
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Best thing
Communications and loads of good energy
Worst thing
Customers
Waitrose & Partners Supermarket assistant, November 2022
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Best thing
Meeting new people interaction with the customers.
Discount
wageWorst thing
Inexperienced managers
Overworked feel pressured
No training to new startersWaitrose & Partners Employee, November 2022
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Best thing
Learning about partnership
Worst thing
Same people take advantage of sick pay and lazy people
Waitrose & Partners Warehouse operative, November 2022
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Best thing
we work as a team in branch , very respected by other partners . a very transparent company to work for - free food too !
Worst thing
the rude customers
thievesWaitrose & Partners Supermarket assistant, October 2022
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Best thing
The discount
Worst thing
Management and no staff
Waitrose & Partners Sales assistant, October 2022
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Best thing
It is great pay, most people are really nice and it can be fun if you’re working with your friends.
Worst thing
It is so hard to book off holiday, or change shifts. Requests are often denied with no explanation and the whole process takes several weeks
Waitrose & Partners Supermarket assistant, October 2022
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Best thing
My peers and I are close and very supportive of each other.
Worst thing
Manager is a bully and picks on certain people. Not a nice place to work.
Waitrose & Partners Team manager, October 2022
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Best thing
Great team manager and team colleagues
Worst thing
Holiday system isn’t fair. Blame gets passed around for things.
Waitrose & Partners Customer assistant, October 2022
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Best thing
the people i work with are some of the nicest people i met
Worst thing
the stress of the pressure of finishing tasks and the lack of help when needed it
Waitrose & Partners Employee, October 2022
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Best thing
The people I work with
Worst thing
The lack of care & details by managers & partners
Waitrose & Partners Retail assistant, September 2022
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Best thing
The best thing about my job is spending time with my work colleagues
Worst thing
The worst things about my job is trying to find cover or book off holiday or basically anything to do with management.
Waitrose & Partners Barista, September 2022
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Best thing
The people on my team are lovely
Worst thing
Management don’t care or help when times are hard
Waitrose & Partners Employee, September 2022
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Best thing
Dicount
Worst thing
People not pulling their weight
Waitrose & Partners Sales assistant, September 2022
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Best thing
People and chatting
Worst thing
Repetitive boring
Waitrose & Partners Supermarket assistant, September 2022
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Best thing
Pay and staff discount
Worst thing
Management
Waitrose & Partners Supermarket assistant, September 2022
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Best thing
All of the workers
Worst thing
The customers and abuse with the managers not caring
Waitrose & Partners Till operator, September 2022
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Best thing
The people
Worst thing
Fairness of pay
Waitrose & Partners Team leader, September 2022
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Best thing
Good pay and hours, brilliant co-workers, nice environment
Worst thing
Not very exciting, snobby customers, equipment such as tills are very old and keep breaking
Waitrose & Partners Supermarket assistant, September 2022
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Best thing
The people I work with, we are like a family
Worst thing
When something goes wrong it goes really wrong and it’s just a bit of a shit show
Waitrose & Partners Delivery driver, September 2022
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Best thing
Team
Worst thing
Managers
Rude customers
Bad hours
No lifeWaitrose & Partners Supermarket assistant, September 2022
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Best thing
meeting new friends
Worst thing
hard to get time off
Waitrose & Partners Supermarket assistant, August 2022
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Best thing
Friendly welcoming team, very good training, supportive managers and team leaders, great job satisfaction
Worst thing
Sometimes the volume of customers requiring assistance can delay you getting your tasks done
Waitrose & Partners Supermarket assistant, August 2022
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Best thing
Friendly staff and friendly customers most of the time
Worst thing
Occasionall rude customers as expected
Waitrose & Partners Supermarket assistant, August 2022
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Best thing
The people at the same level are nice and the benefits are good.
Worst thing
Poor management / bad senior leaders
Waitrose & Partners Warehouse assistant, August 2022
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Best thing
Being out and talking with customers and lovely colleagues
Worst thing
People at working who are in the same position and act as if they own the place and have it out on me because they simple don’t like me, not that I have done anything wrong just trying to be a boss
Waitrose & Partners Home delivery driver, August 2022
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Best thing
Culture of being a partner in the business
Worst thing
Expected to do more because you are a partner. Pushed to do a lot.
Waitrose & Partners Supermarket assistant, August 2022
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Best thing
The pay and benefits doesn’t change pay based on age they change it on skill so 16 year old gets payed the same as a 50 year old
Worst thing
The older partners don’t realise that younger partners can learn and supervisor jobs such as welcome desk and consistently undermine the ability of young people.
Waitrose & Partners Employee, July 2022
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Best thing
Discount, team, management
Worst thing
Difficult to change shifts, unpaid breaks
Waitrose & Partners Employee, July 2022
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Best thing
The discount and some of the people I work with
Worst thing
Some customers and partners
Waitrose & Partners Customer assistant, July 2022
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Best thing
Freedom
Worst thing
Rare incentives for overtime
Waitrose & Partners Delivery driver, July 2022
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Best thing
The people
Worst thing
Amoint expected from each person.
Waitrose & Partners Team leader, June 2022
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Best thing
The breaks
Worst thing
How much work they expect you to do in a small period of time
Waitrose & Partners Shop assistant, June 2022
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Best thing
The people, flexible hours and can leave work at work
Worst thing
Physically hard work, Low recognition, no progression
Waitrose & Partners Customer assistant, June 2022
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Best thing
People I work with
Worst thing
No overtime
Waitrose & Partners Sales assistant, June 2022
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Best thing
The team you get to work with
Worst thing
Massively understaffed.
Little to no support from higher ups regarding training and customer interactions.Waitrose & Partners Supermarket assistant, June 2022
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Best thing
Since of these people
Worst thing
The lack of positive direction
Waitrose & Partners Team leader, June 2022