Waitrose & Partners

Very cold inside. Heavy weight items

Hours convenience people

Hard work money

Partner Discounts at Waitrose and John Lewis, Subsidised dining at workplace

Fixed rotas, unpaid breaks, poor work-life balance

The people I work with

Customers and management

Relatively guaranteed shifts.

Mismanagement, boredom, disrespected, bad culture, bullying, bad pay, bad communication, stress, abuse from customers.

No annoying co workers.
Go at my own pace.

Bad route planning.
Often skip breaks.
Navigation equipment not fit for purpose.
Zero chance of career progression unless you get in to the golden circle or are in the top 3 drivers out of over 300 people. Pay review is perfomance based and takes into account all aspects of driving, delivery on time, and arrival back at depot. Sometimes get less than half hour to get back but it takes an hour. Completely out of your control yet this was the only reason my pay didnt change this year.

Other partners, independence

Some extremely poor leadership, managers don't listen, line managers don't care about partners and only care about making themselves look good at the expense of lower level partners

People I work with

Under pressure not enough staff. Been told to work 110% never get to finish A job always getting told to go on tills then go on deli the. Get moaned out because stock isunt getting put on shelves

The people

Too much put on one person, taken for granted

No stress

Customer can be rude

Everyone is nice and it’s a friendly environment with lots of respect and trust and if your unsure of something anyone is approachable to ask for help.

Lack of resources and sometimes when they ask your to do something with in a time and it’s an impossible expectation.

Discount sick pay

Too many people thinking they are in charge when they are not

Don’t get planned breaks and always being asked what you doing ?

It's not far from home, pay is good, good work mates

The night shift hours

Nothing much.

No training. Poor management

The team

Some unsociable hours

Customer service.

Understaffed at times.

The hours I am allocated to work fit in with what I want.

Locating layout of stock changes

Some of the people working there

You get unfairly treated

The work is pretty easy

Didn’t get enough training but am expected to know everything and hours are really bad and they’re not willing to change it.

Career Progression

It never stops

Flexibility, the people I work with and the diversity of the role

Negative people

Love working with them
Good communication

Just people give up at times

Local some people

Treated differently

Working with friendly colleagues and serving pleasant customers

Lack of support by some members of the management team

The management really like to know if we have any problems and everyone is very nice

Regular hours, paid on time, partner discount.

Holiday/time off can be hard to get, unsympathetic managers, very strict sickness policy, abolition of annual bonus, managers can be quite intimidating/bullying at times (they have their favourites too who are treated better), lack of staff which means current staff are expected to work harder and faster. It used to be a good company to work for but unfortunately not any more.

Own boss o ce on the road

Time spent in branch before getting on the road

20%discount

Can be heavy work

Some people within the team are really great to work with and can make a shift enjoyable if you are with the right people.

Some staff are so hard to work with and can sometimes make you hate your job. Management definitely have favourites and treat some people with absolutely no respect. Actually made me get diagnosed with depression due to how badly I was treated!

I get to meet lots of nice customers and staff.

Discount

Lack of manpower when required

Great team of people to work with .

19 miles from home

A lot of the time is spent driving. We help families in lockdown. Low stress

Pay rate, some rules fly in the face of common sense

Best things are my team

Staff shortages

The people you work with

Customers can be difficult

Work mates/banter and cake

Facing up the store before we open in the morning ( making it look nice)

Decent rate of pay, decent discount, employee owned business

People are great
Great perks

Flexible hours can be difficult
Holiday can be hard to book if last minute

People and customers

Hours and stress

Being with people

Very physically demanding

The partners and some customers

Them meeting quotas for equality when you could be doing more than that person

There is a fair amount of autonomy permitted, and suggestions are encouraged.

It can be stressful if we do not have enough people to cover the work expected.

Nice customers, friendly colleagues,good pay & benefits

Pay
Working on your own

Treated like kids

meet and talk to lots of people daily

My colleagues
Able to be myself

Customers can be rude

good working environments, benefits, free food

unchanging set hours- working the same days every week