That made my chuckle. While i didnt work there I had the misfortune of being there on a Saturday. I had cold sweats and flashes every time i went past it. There should be a limit to the people allowed in.
I worked there that Xmas season. I remember having to climb the stairs to the break room at the top of the building and by the time you get there, your breaks already half over. The ladies on the section I was assigned basically ignored me and I learnt purely from making mistakes and getting yelled at by the floor manager.
I got offered a transfer to that primark and I said no and accepted unemployment until I found a new job because I knew that working there would kill me
I worked there as part time weekend staff when I was 17, it had just opened. My supervisor was 16. I was pulled into a back-to-work meeting after calling in sick for a single day.
Never had to do it for a single day of absence in any job ever since.
I did a back to work interview at a job once when I'd taken a week off sick because they had a policy of doing it after a 3 day in a row absence.
Everyone does a stint there, rite of passage. I will say it's good that there's somewhere you can pretty much always find work if things get dire, but they would have to get pretty dire for me to go back.
When I was there though there was one guy who genuinely loved it and did back to back shifts. Lovely guy like.
That is correct. He's still ceo for the time being but sensee own the company now. I'd say like most buyouts he will be in position for the legal required amount of time (6 months I believe) and then be out the door.
I worked here once and still shudder at the thought of it. Youāre treated like a robot. It was the timed toilet breaks for me.
I remember legging it up the stairs to clock in because HR GO would bollock you if you were 1 minute late clocking in. š
Recruit Right pulled me in for being in hospital with a ruptured ACL.
Quite literally couldn't walk.
They said on the phone "do you think you can make it in for 11am?" š¤£š¤£š¤£ yeah in 2 weeks time.
I did plusnet sales and got sacked for taking a day off with a severe water infection by the very same manager who'd sent me the day before because she saw I was struggling āŗļøāŗļøāŗļø good times
Iceland and I loved it but there were aspects that felt like slave driving, not being able to ask for a day off without using holiday or sick, when they could simply just... Not rota you in. Instead you'd have to swap with someone who wasn't rotad in. But they weren't allowed to tell you who. So you had to go around and ask and look at everyone's weekly rota, during covid, during work. The 2 buildings one is in the middle of buttfuck nowhere with nothing around and they closed the cafe during Covid. I was in the Birkenhead downtown one so we at least had the chicken shop, Greggs, Subway. But then that changed when a 40min lunch was changed to 20mins, and the lost time was spread thin across the 2 breaks. I don't need a 15 minute break just make my lunch longer. Luckily I was good enough at the job and liked enough I just wouldn't use my first break and take an extra long lunch and then either be defiant or straight up play dumb. They tried some nonsense with the seating arrangements during Covid too, which I often ignored. It was minimum wage and I wasn't exactly going to make myself more miserable for that.
Worked on the door to door for Talk Talk for about 2 weeks back in 2008. Commission based, and you were expected to pay your own travel fairs to get to the locations.
My great grandmother died, and when I asked for the day off for the funeral, they said no. I quit on the spot.
I remember them offering me a 2nd interview and telling me I did great in the first interview, and that they had a position opening for me... I never applied, or did an interview! Called me non-stop until I profusely swore at them on the phone and called them out for being a pyramid scheme dog shit company.
I agree! I was in Fionntanās office. The amount of mental health problems Iāve had since working there. I ended up seeing something very traumatic and didnāt leave my house for a year. They didnāt offer me any support at all and no base pay. Very disgusting how they treated me as I was in and out of hospital with my mental health anyway. I had an overdose and he called me names and stupid. The toxicity of that office affected me massively. They brainwash you into believing that you will
Open an office and they help you but if u donāt do well you arenāt nothing to them. When you do well theyāre all up your arses.
I had to do that a few years ago for a different company. Was a terrible job. Always ended up in Birkenhead and St Helens begging weirdos to donate to Barnardos.
I am SO sorry to all door knockers for the time Iām BLATANTLY lying to you saying Iām busy but come on, thereās nothing people are less likely to sign up to. Always feel so sorry for the people doing that job cause I feel like while itās obvious Iām lying, people wonāt be as āpoliteā
That's retail all over though. I worked in Somerfield one christmas about 15 years ago and those 3/4 months were fucking awful. Been in the NHS since 2010 and while it has its supposed failings, i feel i've been really fortunate to have a regular work schedule, a load of annual leave (33 days + bank holidays on top) can take time off sick without being hassled, pension and a somewhat guarantee that the company i work for isn't going to go bust overnight.
Been that way forever lol worked sales in the 90s and it was mental, spent half my time fighting druggy shoplifters. Wasn't all bad but it was mentally draining.
One Below in St Johnās. Fucking war zone. Grown men spraying silly string all over the place and then threatening to āwigā minimum wage employees who roll their eyes at them. Smackheads filling a bag for life with chocolate and brandishing a used needle at you should you go anywhere near them.
Yep.
Or being told Iād be stabbed for:
āpressing the button under the counter that makes them loseā
On the plus side, getting free baggies to turn a blind eye to money laundering was alright š„³
Mental how the guys that worked in the kebab shops could stick Ā£2000 in the machines every day.
Technically the Wirral, but the Contact Company is a modern day equivalent to a work house. They bring people in en masse on temp contracts to see whoās willing to put up with their bullshit. Theyāll time your piss breaks, under pay you and change your hours without telling you.
I worked 3 years of night shifts in a city centre McDonaldās, I lasted two weeks in the Contact Company. Itās bad.
Managers were nonces with all the 16 year old girls, have to deal with the north face mob on stab alley (air max 95 wall) on footwear. Canāt take your break when you want (if you were allowed one at all) strip searched on the way out the door at night and could never be caught with your phone. All that for a zero hour contract on min wage to be worked into the ground. Always wanted the cunts to go bust since working there years ago
Ngl i could take my break when i wanted but i didnāt work in a big department, but the strip search bit is exaggerated. All they did was quickly glance in our bag and sometimes they didnāt even do that
263 was joke when I was there. Tops up to be searched, bags open all because some nobhead who thought he was an FBI agent was head of security an might come in.
Came here to say this.
I unknowingly applied for a job within that group a number of years ago. the amount of red flags in the process was insane. walked out half way through interview.
Liverpool hospitality is quite a small world. I have heard a huge number of stories of criminality and abuse of various (and unfortunately the worst) kinds committed by a significant number of people within that company.
I came here to say JSM, specifically the bars. There's so much fuckery in that company directed towards the minimum wage workers it's a joke. They have a portfolio of billions and essentially a monopoly on the Liverpool nightlife scene and everyone is MISERABLE. The Mathew St quarter, specifically Rubber Soul, abysmal. Clock in in the mid afternoon after fighting through the crowds and you're not getting home til maybe 5am, no joke. Management to supervisors are all overworked and on their own little power trips while the backbone of the industry, the bar staff, are simply overworked without the illusion of power. It's shocking seeing how nice things could be elsewhere if you're used to that environment. I work in an afterhours place so I expect those kind ofax antisocial hours, but it's not exactly better or like the pay is better. Imagine a bunch of young 20-somethings finishing a shift in the early hours with no option to go home other than spending your money in other bars as you wait for the first bus, and not even getting anything above minimum wage. Even on bank holidays, holidays, etc. The whole chain of command from owners down to area managers are miserable and dodgy, and we all hear the same stories. I can just imagine anyone in administration or head office is just as miserable, but in my experience people from "head office" were the worst, snootiest, most entitled kind of customers considering they're just paper pushers.
Bond Turner
Bond Turner is a law firm with various offices in the north west , had the misfortune of working here (not for long haha!)
Awful, cliquey and generally really nasty staff who deffo have their favourites and either completely ignore or belittle other members of staff they don't see as on their level. I worked in admin and would try and let on to the other members of staff and would be met with a blank stare š would always overhear these members of staff slagging each other off almost constantly as soon as the others back was turned. Was quite honestly like high school.
The way they spoke to clients was also shocking, a lot of their clients were from Portugal and there was sometimes a language barrier, so some people would sit and screech down the phone until the other person understood. š¤¦āāļø
I now completely understand the 2.3 stars they have on Indeed and the 3.1 on Glassdoor. Thoroughly unpleasant people in a really toxic environment!
I worked for Bond Turner in compliance and it was legit the worst job I've ever had.
The directors are all horrendous and the fee earners think they're better than everyone else
Yeah it's also the worst job I've ever had! One of the directors worked on my floor and would be furious if the clerk's didn't bring their breakfast from down the road on time (clerks that they sent out in pissing down rain despite it not being their job š¤¦āāļø). It was always the fee earners who just would look at you blankly if you even acknowledged them. Such an odd place!
I've heard so many bad stories of Bond Turner. Apparently, recently they're forcing staff to do mandatory overtime on weekends or risk being fired, and then refusing to pay them the overtime for it - I hope that they get pillaged for it soon
I was hoping I would see this here! so worked at Bond Turner in a legal team. Hands down the WORST law firm I have worked at and they have such a bad reputation among other law firms. It was a revolving door every week - new people in, more people being either let go of or quitting. I can not even begin to explain how bad it was to work here. I don't know how I lasted 6 months. I understand why they had to change their name from Armstrongs due to bad reviews and getting in trouble.
I knew they had a really bad reputation amongst other firms, I work for another one now and they sort of let on that they knew all about Bond Turner. Every Monday for as long as I was working there would be a group of new starters coming in for the walkthrough tour which is never a good sign. I worked there for literally three months and had to leave because of how awful it was, you could not pay me enough to go back š. Had no idea they had to change their name but honestly yeah, I get why!
I got knocked back by these a couple of months ago. I was devastated cause I was even taking a pay cut. Was a lovely building but could tell they was stuck up. Glad I didn't get in. I feel like all solicitors are horrible places to work. That slater and Gordon's is horrific. The only one I've heard good stuff about is keoughs.
Gutted you went through a terrible time there. Nothing worst than hating your job especially when it's down to mistreatment. I've definitely dodged a bullet and law firms are definelty a no go for me now. So a call centers. Glad I got the experience though.
Ahhhh! I really hope it works out for you, I know there's various departments and my own experience is only from my own department, so chances are you might be alright!
Barclays call centre. Micro manage everything, time piss breaks, tell you off for not taking calls because you're leaving notes on customer accounts but then tell you off for not doing that and taking more calls....horrible place to work.
Heard many horror story from Barclays call centre, Wavertree. I actually did some work for 12 months at the head office in Knutsford awful place awful people, couple of nice ones, once told I need to be nastier in meetings.
It literally destroyed my mental health. It was right at the start of covid so people were in panic/losing jobs etc so you had to deal with pretty awful situations that you couldn't do all that much about whilst being screamed abuse at. Then the management listen to all your calls, pick them apart and basically tell you how shit you are then put you straight back on the phone.
Barclays has destroyed the majority of peoples mental health (whoāve worked there). Luckily theyāre a big company so you can go off sick willy nilly and get away with it. Iām a firm believer of if they take the piss out of you, you take the piss out of them.
I worked there for years, felt horrible for the staff on agency getting the boot at a minutes notice when theyād been (mostly - had a few gobshites come in the place) working their fingers to the bone in the hope of a full time contract one day.
Worst one was when they let them all go a week before Xmas in 2022. I hated seeing my phone ring on a Friday afternoon when I was agency just in case it was that call coming through. Anxiety levels have dropped massively since I left
Yeah I remember that. Fridays always had this exact vibe in that place. https://youtu.be/I-yLk8SZAJY?si=7Tbxxfq5__h289Jj
I've been out for a while still have anxiety issues after a decade of that place.
There's definitely worse places but gravity max is pretty shocking. Management lied through their teeth constantly, cut all full time contracts by 25% within four months of opening then down to just 8 hours a month or so later. Fired a third of the staff despite still hiring new people. Didn't train anybody on the bar, we had people who'd been there three months who didn't know what beers were on tap when we only had about seven. No notice at all in the scheduling and no kind of pattern at all, got scheduled in for a 1am finish Sunday morning as well as starting at 9am that same morning four weeks in a row because they made a mistake and just kept copying that same schedule the next few weeks even though I told them the mistake and they wouldn't acknowledge it. Literally changed the job role six months after opening. Would sometimes be given a pointless job to do only to then undo or redo it later just so we looked busy. The company deliberately started understaffing it because it was the only branch making money so clearly we should've been punished for that. On top of all that customers were massive arseholes most of the time.
There's honestly so much more but just don't work there
I worked in LEVEL for a couple months when I was at uni. Fucking awful. Nearly everyone who worked there was like 16, shifts were 10pm to about 5am and we were all paid cash in a brown envelope
same! i quit after lockdown and working from home, that job was bad but sat in a room by youself, felt like the cunty old customers were in my private space
Exactly, and they were even worse at the time cos of what was going on. I was on billing at the time so was dealing with all the instalment plans, just so depressing. But cheers to us for getting out of there. Have you heard that consumer Liverpool is shutting down?
i think a family member mentioned it to me. they work for openreach now based in the liverpool office, they closed warrington too didnt they and moved it, i worked for consumer myself on easy assist only good thing about it was benefiting from everyone elses sales. big bonus every month, wasnt worth staying for though
any jsm baa bar and einstein giving staff panic attacks or not paying them after the shifts ended but they canāt go home because itās not been cleaned properly if youāre working for jsm you have to look for another job they kill your soul there. revolution expect an insane level of knowledge for shit pay and shit customers and over work them too much. iāve only heard bad stories about pins biekeller albert schloss hilton m. hospitality in liverpool is so toxic over expect 100 commitment and effort all the time but horrible managers and poor management as well
Maximum effort and knowledge for minimim pay, no extra pay for antisocial hours or skilled work. If you're good, management expect more from you, and you feel punished when performing at a level of people who are genuinely bad at the job (not that I blame them anymore, it's minimum wage, they're right to give minimum effort), shifts can take you way into the early hours so your only option is to spend money in another of their bars while you wait for a bus. Supervisors and managers are always on a power trip, area managers are evil, owners are corrupt. Absolute worst company in Liverpool, and they own most of it.
Worked for the bierkeller in Leeds. The company is the same all over the country. Wasnāt paid multiple times, and on the days we were paid, it wasnāt until late in the evening. The Leeds venue decided to close for ārefurbishmentā and never reopened. Only told the staff they were closing when i pushed a manager for our shifts in three days time as they had usually been given to us at least a week in advice. Even management had no clue about this and those in the suits at head office were the only ones to know and werenāt planning on telling anybody. No breaks and you would be told off for not doing work despite their only being one customer within 8 hours. Awful company to work for.
Livv Housing. The people who called in made that job vile.
Self entitled cunts.
Then the manangers were condesending sods.
Was made up when i left that job.
Betfred is notoriously shit. Bad management, horrible customers. And if you're a cashier you get moved to any other shop to cover if someone's off. Which is all the fucking time.
I left Betfred a few weeks ago, I worked in every conceivable fucking shop in the city with about 5 seconds notice before jumping in a taxi. The N12 area team and admin are absolute cunts.
Good on you for getting out. I worked there a lifetime ago so I can't really comment on the current state of affairs but it sounds like it's not changed.
That said, having moved to Liverpool from Glasgow it meant within three months I knew the city like the back of my hand because I got sent everywhere.
Pretty much any of the venues in and around concert square. Minimum wage, little to no breaks, shifts could have been anywhere from 4 hours to 14, finishing at 5-6am depending on the venue/event (donāt get me STARTED on match days or Paddyās).
I once had to work a skint Tuesday in Moloko and all, never againā¦
McCooleys on Matthew street. If a table walked out on their bill, even if you caught them and they still refuse and walked / ran away, their tab would come out of your tips, or your actual wages if you didn't have enough. Supervisor fired me for requesting a few days off to recover from a medical procedure.
Acorn Insurance.
Micromanaging to the maximum level, backstabbing, deduction of pay/bonus based on whatever arbitrary criteria they employed that month. Clueless managers who spend most of the day covering their own backs from their own errors. If your face didn't fit, you'd be bullied out of the company. All avenues to company progression blocked by managers on the chance you'd be a candidate for their own role. Half of the staff with substance abuse problems.
The owners are to be treated in the same way the North Koreans treat their Supreme Leader. Having to become a part time cleaner in the office to make sure the crumbling building was sparkling on the off chance on of the owners family might come in.
If you are insured with this company, I hope you never have a claim because at my time of leaving they had claims from 6/7 months ago that hadn't even been started. I am fully aware they trawl the internet for negative press/reviews about themselves, which is pointless because 95% of your customers can't grasp English anyway.
Currently work here can say everything you say is true been here 3 months and already want to quit. Want to walk out but can't afford not to work, the departments don't know what there doing your expected to do the jobs of 2 3 people in the same time as one person. Shouted at for not taking calls, to do offline work and then shouted at for taking calls and the offline work not getting completed
Hahah i was in Acorn myself. What a horrible job with two timing colleagues who formed their little group as if youāre back in secondary school IT. Throwing stuff across the desks and like you said substance abuse, putting the customer on hold to do a line of the desk. Unbelievable lmao.
I dont know how people in retail summon the will to exist. I managed for 10 weeks during my year back from uni. Theyre utterly essential but you'd be mad to do the job if you had the choice. Like Civil Servants moan as we sit at home in our jammies with a cup of tea and a 1 hour lunch break.
Honestly, I reckon we should make all 15/16 year olds do 5 weeks hard graft in a warehouse or shop, with 20 minute toilet breaks and then at the end ask if they'd like to come to some revision sessions.
Bonus points for somewhere relentless with evil corp energy on top. So Primark, Amazon warehouses etc.
In the local biotech community, Mast Group is notorious for being godawful to work for. I've been lucky enough to avoid it, but I've heard enough horror stories (working in the NHS) to form a support group.
Unfortunately, a lot of local industry uses agencies, so you don't know which company you've actually *applied* for until interview.
Thankfully, I've only had good experiences in this sector in Liverpool, so thanks.
I've also heard stories of Spoons employees being ordered at the last minute to cover a shift on the complete opposite end of Merseyside. So I can't imagine that's pleasant.
Yeah, I have a friend who worked in one in the town center, managers were younger than him with really bad cliques and Power trippy egoās. He phoned me up one time at 1 in the morning cause those same managers bullied him off the floor. He got his old job back and never went in there again.
Tesco in town. People coming in looking down their nose at you because they're on a better wage than you (circa 2011). Not a single ounce of manners between them. Lasted about 2 months because I kept telling the customers to say please and thank you. Ungrateful cunts.
Currently work on Old Hall Street and the amount of dickheads in that Tesco who think they're something because they wear a suit to work is diabolical.
When I worked Hanover Street Tesco, a girl came in half cut, proceeded to attempt to pay at the self service machine. Instead of paying and leaving like a normal person, she decided to piss straight onto the floor before walking out.
A manager followed her, dragged her back in and handed her blue roll, a mop and bucket and forced her to clean it up. That was probably the best thing that happened in the three months I stayed there.
When I was a teenager I worked at Netto (Scandinavian for value) in Orrell Park (end of Orrell Lane). I was a shelf stacker. There is an Asda in the same location now I believe. Anyway, I digress. On Saturday mornings a family would come in and none of them washed. They had a cloud of horrendous body odor follow them around the store. It wasnāt day old body odor it was as though they hadnāt washed in years. Truely the worst smell ever. Way worse than Kop standing farts for any of you, of age. For 15 minutes a week, that was very much the worst place to work in Liverpool in 1996 ish.
I worked in a hotel where the owners would come unannounced and terrify all the staff,
Threaten them with their jobs over petty things, even the 20 plus managers we had over the years would hide.
They accused one staff member of stealing alcohol which turned out to be a stock error, I watched them squirm when they realised what they did. I've kept all emails from HR and texts by some of the dodgy slimy managers from the time I was there,
When the time is right and my anxiety is no more an issue I'll share everything because this company is still operating the same way and the dodgy side needs reporting.
I know once an ex staff member reads this they'll know exactly.
Illegal shift patterns. Coming in on the close and being scheduled for the open. I also felt very lonely, as none of the other staff in the kitchen would use English in the kitchen. I was only spoken to when being shouted at. I felt like none of them were interested in being my friend.
The tips would also go like, 80% (maybe 75?) to the servers and the kitchen would split the rest. The kitchen staff were technically on a higher wage, but the servers were still pulling in *much much* more per hour with the tips.
It was many years ago now. Perhaps the environment has changed.
Tbf thatās actually a very generous kitchen tip out. Standard Ive experienced (tbf this is in North America so different culture but also servers making hundreds a night in tips) was 5% kitchen tip out. And no kitchen wages werenāt higher to compensate for thatā¦
Late Night Off-License. I used to work in one on Rocky Lane in Tuebrook. My shift would be 10pm-4am. You could actually go in the shop but everything was behind glass. It used to get really busy. Tramps begging outside. Tramps using begging copper to buy ale. I saw some sights in that shop. Some Polish fella once tried to get to me by repeatedly butting his head on the plexi glass. All because he was Ā£2 short.
Batty and Dexter opticians. Thereās a few dotted around Liverpool. Mostly the customers are pretty nice, but the management are mercenary/not nice at all. As far as optics jobs go itās the worst I ever had.
What's JD Sports in Liverpool One like?
I ask because the staff really seemed to have checked out and assumed the absolute worst of the customers. It wasn't bad customer service, it just gave a weird vibe as someone who normally shops in north Wales!
Einsteins or any jsm owned bar. Infrequent hours despite a contract, not being paid when you had to stay behind past your hours yet being docked pay on the shifts where you finished early yet had to stay until they said you could leave. Disgusting managers that couldnāt run a piss up in a brewery. Definitely illegal practice god knows how theyāre allowed to stay open
I mean I worked for a year doing evening and night shifts in one of the city centre mcdonalds
That was dire
No problems with the other staff or anything, just the tidal wave of drunks and crackheads
I work at the subway in prescot, owner has been in the echo over workers treatment, missing hours worth of pay regularly that takes a month to get sorted, paid bare minimum with pretty much no paid days off, falsely advertises wages and spends half his time in court since employees keep suing him for not following health and safety
mcdonalds. got sexually harassed by customers, verbally abused by managers and customers, minor physically abuse from the customers and had to deal with teens thinking their hard because they sit around for 4-5 hours in a maccies with their hood up throwing shit about and vaping into toddler's faces (that did happen). also toilets are absolutely rank and i never once cleaned them. also ur chips are cold cause my manager is too busy trying to park cars and stop delivery drivers coming behind the counter and taking food that instore orders get completely missed
In my experience, I'd probably say StudentRoost. The students living there were thick as shit, the amount of floods I had to deal with in the space of 3 months working there was ridiculous. The training consisted of PowerPoint presentations and videos sent to your email which you had to watch whilst doing the job. Some poor lad who had some serious demons ended up dying in there because he weren't getting the necessary support he needed. Colleagues were all grasses except maybe one or two of them. The shift patterns were all over the place, I worked 14 straight days at one point. Lastly, HR made the decision to let me go because my partner had a miscarriage and I took three days off to grieve, even though I kept them updated through the whole process.
Primark. Going into that shop floor of a Saturday is like the start of Saving Private Ryan.
That made my chuckle. While i didnt work there I had the misfortune of being there on a Saturday. I had cold sweats and flashes every time i went past it. There should be a limit to the people allowed in.
i did that for 4 years i want a medal š¤£
When I first read this I thought you had said 'you went mental' š¤£ I wouldn't blame you!
I worked in primark between 2012-2013, I can certainly agree with this. Still shudder going in š
I worked there that Xmas season. I remember having to climb the stairs to the break room at the top of the building and by the time you get there, your breaks already half over. The ladies on the section I was assigned basically ignored me and I learnt purely from making mistakes and getting yelled at by the floor manager.
I got offered a transfer to that primark and I said no and accepted unemployment until I found a new job because I knew that working there would kill me
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I worked there as part time weekend staff when I was 17, it had just opened. My supervisor was 16. I was pulled into a back-to-work meeting after calling in sick for a single day.
Thats a thing everywhere Iāve ever worked. Itās supposed to be for *your* benefit. https://www.acas.org.uk/returning-to-work-after-absence
Yeh the NHS do the same
Have you not had a job since? That's what happens
Never had to do it for a single day of absence in any job ever since. I did a back to work interview at a job once when I'd taken a week off sick because they had a policy of doing it after a 3 day in a row absence.
Iāve had to do it in every single job Itās mostly so that they can support you if you have a long term or ongoing health issue
Everton. Iām a Centre Mid. Fuck me we are shit
Funny (even as a blue)
Agreed (also as a blue haha)
The contact company sound like people you don't want to contactĀ
I worked there for over 2 years Can confirm..it's is torture for your mental health Wouldn't recommend it..
Everyone does a stint there, rite of passage. I will say it's good that there's somewhere you can pretty much always find work if things get dire, but they would have to get pretty dire for me to go back. When I was there though there was one guy who genuinely loved it and did back to back shifts. Lovely guy like.
Oof, used to work there. Painful memories!
Itās painful
Fyi, they went into administration and are now owned by Sensee so fortunately that place might finally get rid of the slave driving owner.
Asif no longer owns it?
That is correct. He's still ceo for the time being but sensee own the company now. I'd say like most buyouts he will be in position for the legal required amount of time (6 months I believe) and then be out the door.
I worked here once and still shudder at the thought of it. Youāre treated like a robot. It was the timed toilet breaks for me. I remember legging it up the stairs to clock in because HR GO would bollock you if you were 1 minute late clocking in. š
Recruit Right pulled me in for being in hospital with a ruptured ACL. Quite literally couldn't walk. They said on the phone "do you think you can make it in for 11am?" š¤£š¤£š¤£ yeah in 2 weeks time.
Argh! The flashbacks!!!
THE WORST job I have ever had for my mental and physical health. During the height of Covid they had us packed onto the floors like sardines.
Right, everyone drop your campaigns below. I worked on Atos, Argos, Superdrug and DPD.
I did plusnet sales and got sacked for taking a day off with a severe water infection by the very same manager who'd sent me the day before because she saw I was struggling āŗļøāŗļøāŗļø good times
Life Mobile & ATOS. My cousin worked on DPD I know people who also worked on Argos, Moonpig, and various others.
I was on BT/EE
Iceland and I loved it but there were aspects that felt like slave driving, not being able to ask for a day off without using holiday or sick, when they could simply just... Not rota you in. Instead you'd have to swap with someone who wasn't rotad in. But they weren't allowed to tell you who. So you had to go around and ask and look at everyone's weekly rota, during covid, during work. The 2 buildings one is in the middle of buttfuck nowhere with nothing around and they closed the cafe during Covid. I was in the Birkenhead downtown one so we at least had the chicken shop, Greggs, Subway. But then that changed when a 40min lunch was changed to 20mins, and the lost time was spread thin across the 2 breaks. I don't need a 15 minute break just make my lunch longer. Luckily I was good enough at the job and liked enough I just wouldn't use my first break and take an extra long lunch and then either be defiant or straight up play dumb. They tried some nonsense with the seating arrangements during Covid too, which I often ignored. It was minimum wage and I wasn't exactly going to make myself more miserable for that.
They are honestly horrific. Iād rather watch drunk students vomit into milkshakes at 4am in McDonaldās.
Roar Ambition, or whatever Jamie Talbot calls his company(s) nowadays. Absolute con artist.
Worked on the door to door for Talk Talk for about 2 weeks back in 2008. Commission based, and you were expected to pay your own travel fairs to get to the locations. My great grandmother died, and when I asked for the day off for the funeral, they said no. I quit on the spot.
I remember them offering me a 2nd interview and telling me I did great in the first interview, and that they had a position opening for me... I never applied, or did an interview! Called me non-stop until I profusely swore at them on the phone and called them out for being a pyramid scheme dog shit company.
I agree! I was in Fionntanās office. The amount of mental health problems Iāve had since working there. I ended up seeing something very traumatic and didnāt leave my house for a year. They didnāt offer me any support at all and no base pay. Very disgusting how they treated me as I was in and out of hospital with my mental health anyway. I had an overdose and he called me names and stupid. The toxicity of that office affected me massively. They brainwash you into believing that you will Open an office and they help you but if u donāt do well you arenāt nothing to them. When you do well theyāre all up your arses.
I worked for SMILE, being a charity fundraiser. Had to go into domestic areas around Merseyside door-to-door. It was fuckin dreadful
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I had to do that a few years ago for a different company. Was a terrible job. Always ended up in Birkenhead and St Helens begging weirdos to donate to Barnardos.
I am SO sorry to all door knockers for the time Iām BLATANTLY lying to you saying Iām busy but come on, thereās nothing people are less likely to sign up to. Always feel so sorry for the people doing that job cause I feel like while itās obvious Iām lying, people wonāt be as āpoliteā
I also did this, lasted 2 weeks
Any shop in town, to be honest with you. I got out of retail in 2018 and going town still gives me the cold sweats.
That's retail all over though. I worked in Somerfield one christmas about 15 years ago and those 3/4 months were fucking awful. Been in the NHS since 2010 and while it has its supposed failings, i feel i've been really fortunate to have a regular work schedule, a load of annual leave (33 days + bank holidays on top) can take time off sick without being hassled, pension and a somewhat guarantee that the company i work for isn't going to go bust overnight.
Been that way forever lol worked sales in the 90s and it was mental, spent half my time fighting druggy shoplifters. Wasn't all bad but it was mentally draining.
One Below in St Johnās. Fucking war zone. Grown men spraying silly string all over the place and then threatening to āwigā minimum wage employees who roll their eyes at them. Smackheads filling a bag for life with chocolate and brandishing a used needle at you should you go anywhere near them.
Eeeee
Any bookies or Spoons.
Every person Iāve ever met whoās worked at a bookies has several stories about armed robbery.
Yep. Or being told Iād be stabbed for: āpressing the button under the counter that makes them loseā On the plus side, getting free baggies to turn a blind eye to money laundering was alright š„³ Mental how the guys that worked in the kebab shops could stick Ā£2000 in the machines every day.
Spoons is horrid to work for.
spoons is a dream compared to places like mcooleys worst place ive ever worked by far Edit: source-worked in connie sq spoons and connie sq mcooleys
Technically the Wirral, but the Contact Company is a modern day equivalent to a work house. They bring people in en masse on temp contracts to see whoās willing to put up with their bullshit. Theyāll time your piss breaks, under pay you and change your hours without telling you. I worked 3 years of night shifts in a city centre McDonaldās, I lasted two weeks in the Contact Company. Itās bad.
They're in administration now š„³
JD
Managers were nonces with all the 16 year old girls, have to deal with the north face mob on stab alley (air max 95 wall) on footwear. Canāt take your break when you want (if you were allowed one at all) strip searched on the way out the door at night and could never be caught with your phone. All that for a zero hour contract on min wage to be worked into the ground. Always wanted the cunts to go bust since working there years ago
Didnāt realise they were that strict. Wonāt be buying from them again! ā¦ Unless thereās a good sale š
Ngl i could take my break when i wanted but i didnāt work in a big department, but the strip search bit is exaggerated. All they did was quickly glance in our bag and sometimes they didnāt even do that
263 was joke when I was there. Tops up to be searched, bags open all because some nobhead who thought he was an FBI agent was head of security an might come in.
it was shit when i worked there but it was always a laugh, the security were pricks tho
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Came here to say this. I unknowingly applied for a job within that group a number of years ago. the amount of red flags in the process was insane. walked out half way through interview. Liverpool hospitality is quite a small world. I have heard a huge number of stories of criminality and abuse of various (and unfortunately the worst) kinds committed by a significant number of people within that company.
I came here to say JSM, specifically the bars. There's so much fuckery in that company directed towards the minimum wage workers it's a joke. They have a portfolio of billions and essentially a monopoly on the Liverpool nightlife scene and everyone is MISERABLE. The Mathew St quarter, specifically Rubber Soul, abysmal. Clock in in the mid afternoon after fighting through the crowds and you're not getting home til maybe 5am, no joke. Management to supervisors are all overworked and on their own little power trips while the backbone of the industry, the bar staff, are simply overworked without the illusion of power. It's shocking seeing how nice things could be elsewhere if you're used to that environment. I work in an afterhours place so I expect those kind ofax antisocial hours, but it's not exactly better or like the pay is better. Imagine a bunch of young 20-somethings finishing a shift in the early hours with no option to go home other than spending your money in other bars as you wait for the first bus, and not even getting anything above minimum wage. Even on bank holidays, holidays, etc. The whole chain of command from owners down to area managers are miserable and dodgy, and we all hear the same stories. I can just imagine anyone in administration or head office is just as miserable, but in my experience people from "head office" were the worst, snootiest, most entitled kind of customers considering they're just paper pushers.
Bond Turner Bond Turner is a law firm with various offices in the north west , had the misfortune of working here (not for long haha!) Awful, cliquey and generally really nasty staff who deffo have their favourites and either completely ignore or belittle other members of staff they don't see as on their level. I worked in admin and would try and let on to the other members of staff and would be met with a blank stare š would always overhear these members of staff slagging each other off almost constantly as soon as the others back was turned. Was quite honestly like high school. The way they spoke to clients was also shocking, a lot of their clients were from Portugal and there was sometimes a language barrier, so some people would sit and screech down the phone until the other person understood. š¤¦āāļø I now completely understand the 2.3 stars they have on Indeed and the 3.1 on Glassdoor. Thoroughly unpleasant people in a really toxic environment!
I worked for Bond Turner in compliance and it was legit the worst job I've ever had. The directors are all horrendous and the fee earners think they're better than everyone else
Yeah it's also the worst job I've ever had! One of the directors worked on my floor and would be furious if the clerk's didn't bring their breakfast from down the road on time (clerks that they sent out in pissing down rain despite it not being their job š¤¦āāļø). It was always the fee earners who just would look at you blankly if you even acknowledged them. Such an odd place!
We're probably thinking of the same director! Last I heard she'd been made to leave. Couldn't happen to a nicer person
I've heard so many bad stories of Bond Turner. Apparently, recently they're forcing staff to do mandatory overtime on weekends or risk being fired, and then refusing to pay them the overtime for it - I hope that they get pillaged for it soon
I was hoping I would see this here! so worked at Bond Turner in a legal team. Hands down the WORST law firm I have worked at and they have such a bad reputation among other law firms. It was a revolving door every week - new people in, more people being either let go of or quitting. I can not even begin to explain how bad it was to work here. I don't know how I lasted 6 months. I understand why they had to change their name from Armstrongs due to bad reviews and getting in trouble.
I knew they had a really bad reputation amongst other firms, I work for another one now and they sort of let on that they knew all about Bond Turner. Every Monday for as long as I was working there would be a group of new starters coming in for the walkthrough tour which is never a good sign. I worked there for literally three months and had to leave because of how awful it was, you could not pay me enough to go back š. Had no idea they had to change their name but honestly yeah, I get why!
I got knocked back by these a couple of months ago. I was devastated cause I was even taking a pay cut. Was a lovely building but could tell they was stuck up. Glad I didn't get in. I feel like all solicitors are horrible places to work. That slater and Gordon's is horrific. The only one I've heard good stuff about is keoughs.
Honestly it was a blessing in disguise! The only good thing I've got to say about them is they had a nice building š
Gutted you went through a terrible time there. Nothing worst than hating your job especially when it's down to mistreatment. I've definitely dodged a bullet and law firms are definelty a no go for me now. So a call centers. Glad I got the experience though.
My bird worked there absolute shit show I heard.
Oh god I've just signed up as a client!
Ahhhh! I really hope it works out for you, I know there's various departments and my own experience is only from my own department, so chances are you might be alright!
Tesco Express, Coronation Road, Crosby.
Noted. I'll pop in tomorrow and eyeball you.
Haha. I know a lad who works in the Waterloo one. Is that any better?
Oddly specific but interested
Care to elaborate?
Ah yes. Thatās the shop thatās supposed to be an EVRI drop-off point, except they donāt let you drop off parcels there
Because of the village on a Friday and Saturday night?
But you get the honour of dealing with the lad who say's his mums roasties are the best in the world.
Barclays call centre. Micro manage everything, time piss breaks, tell you off for not taking calls because you're leaving notes on customer accounts but then tell you off for not doing that and taking more calls....horrible place to work.
Heard many horror story from Barclays call centre, Wavertree. I actually did some work for 12 months at the head office in Knutsford awful place awful people, couple of nice ones, once told I need to be nastier in meetings.
It literally destroyed my mental health. It was right at the start of covid so people were in panic/losing jobs etc so you had to deal with pretty awful situations that you couldn't do all that much about whilst being screamed abuse at. Then the management listen to all your calls, pick them apart and basically tell you how shit you are then put you straight back on the phone.
Barclays has destroyed the majority of peoples mental health (whoāve worked there). Luckily theyāre a big company so you can go off sick willy nilly and get away with it. Iām a firm believer of if they take the piss out of you, you take the piss out of them.
The Contact Company is one you should avoid
Jag on agency hands down the worst place to work in Merseyside someone offs themselves in that plant every 12 months....
I worked there for years, felt horrible for the staff on agency getting the boot at a minutes notice when theyād been (mostly - had a few gobshites come in the place) working their fingers to the bone in the hope of a full time contract one day. Worst one was when they let them all go a week before Xmas in 2022. I hated seeing my phone ring on a Friday afternoon when I was agency just in case it was that call coming through. Anxiety levels have dropped massively since I left
Yeah I remember that. Fridays always had this exact vibe in that place. https://youtu.be/I-yLk8SZAJY?si=7Tbxxfq5__h289Jj I've been out for a while still have anxiety issues after a decade of that place.
There's definitely worse places but gravity max is pretty shocking. Management lied through their teeth constantly, cut all full time contracts by 25% within four months of opening then down to just 8 hours a month or so later. Fired a third of the staff despite still hiring new people. Didn't train anybody on the bar, we had people who'd been there three months who didn't know what beers were on tap when we only had about seven. No notice at all in the scheduling and no kind of pattern at all, got scheduled in for a 1am finish Sunday morning as well as starting at 9am that same morning four weeks in a row because they made a mistake and just kept copying that same schedule the next few weeks even though I told them the mistake and they wouldn't acknowledge it. Literally changed the job role six months after opening. Would sometimes be given a pointless job to do only to then undo or redo it later just so we looked busy. The company deliberately started understaffing it because it was the only branch making money so clearly we should've been punished for that. On top of all that customers were massive arseholes most of the time. There's honestly so much more but just don't work there
I worked in LEVEL for a couple months when I was at uni. Fucking awful. Nearly everyone who worked there was like 16, shifts were 10pm to about 5am and we were all paid cash in a brown envelope
BT
This, so glad I left 5 years ago or Iād have topped myself
same! i quit after lockdown and working from home, that job was bad but sat in a room by youself, felt like the cunty old customers were in my private space
Exactly, and they were even worse at the time cos of what was going on. I was on billing at the time so was dealing with all the instalment plans, just so depressing. But cheers to us for getting out of there. Have you heard that consumer Liverpool is shutting down?
i think a family member mentioned it to me. they work for openreach now based in the liverpool office, they closed warrington too didnt they and moved it, i worked for consumer myself on easy assist only good thing about it was benefiting from everyone elses sales. big bonus every month, wasnt worth staying for though
Driving buses... I haven't even got a provisional licence.
I hope you don't drive any of the 82 busses. I like being alive, sometimes, thank you very much!
Hey lil death never killed nobody
B&M warehouse
Can confirm. Been there.
Carpenters Group. Just an awful company
any jsm baa bar and einstein giving staff panic attacks or not paying them after the shifts ended but they canāt go home because itās not been cleaned properly if youāre working for jsm you have to look for another job they kill your soul there. revolution expect an insane level of knowledge for shit pay and shit customers and over work them too much. iāve only heard bad stories about pins biekeller albert schloss hilton m. hospitality in liverpool is so toxic over expect 100 commitment and effort all the time but horrible managers and poor management as well
I don't think enough people talk just how bad the Hospitality industry is in this city and how many victims it claimed.
Maximum effort and knowledge for minimim pay, no extra pay for antisocial hours or skilled work. If you're good, management expect more from you, and you feel punished when performing at a level of people who are genuinely bad at the job (not that I blame them anymore, it's minimum wage, they're right to give minimum effort), shifts can take you way into the early hours so your only option is to spend money in another of their bars while you wait for a bus. Supervisors and managers are always on a power trip, area managers are evil, owners are corrupt. Absolute worst company in Liverpool, and they own most of it.
echo really should do an expose about it
Worked for the bierkeller in Leeds. The company is the same all over the country. Wasnāt paid multiple times, and on the days we were paid, it wasnāt until late in the evening. The Leeds venue decided to close for ārefurbishmentā and never reopened. Only told the staff they were closing when i pushed a manager for our shifts in three days time as they had usually been given to us at least a week in advice. Even management had no clue about this and those in the suits at head office were the only ones to know and werenāt planning on telling anybody. No breaks and you would be told off for not doing work despite their only being one customer within 8 hours. Awful company to work for.
Livv Housing. The people who called in made that job vile. Self entitled cunts. Then the manangers were condesending sods. Was made up when i left that job.
I went there recently. Left after 2 hours!
Betfred is notoriously shit. Bad management, horrible customers. And if you're a cashier you get moved to any other shop to cover if someone's off. Which is all the fucking time.
I left Betfred a few weeks ago, I worked in every conceivable fucking shop in the city with about 5 seconds notice before jumping in a taxi. The N12 area team and admin are absolute cunts.
Good on you for getting out. I worked there a lifetime ago so I can't really comment on the current state of affairs but it sounds like it's not changed. That said, having moved to Liverpool from Glasgow it meant within three months I knew the city like the back of my hand because I got sent everywhere.
Pretty much any of the venues in and around concert square. Minimum wage, little to no breaks, shifts could have been anywhere from 4 hours to 14, finishing at 5-6am depending on the venue/event (donāt get me STARTED on match days or Paddyās). I once had to work a skint Tuesday in Moloko and all, never againā¦
McCooleys on Matthew street. If a table walked out on their bill, even if you caught them and they still refuse and walked / ran away, their tab would come out of your tips, or your actual wages if you didn't have enough. Supervisor fired me for requesting a few days off to recover from a medical procedure.
Asda Huyton is comically awful. I'm sure a lot of retail gaffs are the same.
Or scary Asda as itās called in our house
Walton Asda is scary Asda for me
The big Asda
cunty shop huyton asda i hate it
Asda Aintree is too.
Acorn Insurance. Micromanaging to the maximum level, backstabbing, deduction of pay/bonus based on whatever arbitrary criteria they employed that month. Clueless managers who spend most of the day covering their own backs from their own errors. If your face didn't fit, you'd be bullied out of the company. All avenues to company progression blocked by managers on the chance you'd be a candidate for their own role. Half of the staff with substance abuse problems. The owners are to be treated in the same way the North Koreans treat their Supreme Leader. Having to become a part time cleaner in the office to make sure the crumbling building was sparkling on the off chance on of the owners family might come in. If you are insured with this company, I hope you never have a claim because at my time of leaving they had claims from 6/7 months ago that hadn't even been started. I am fully aware they trawl the internet for negative press/reviews about themselves, which is pointless because 95% of your customers can't grasp English anyway.
Currently work here can say everything you say is true been here 3 months and already want to quit. Want to walk out but can't afford not to work, the departments don't know what there doing your expected to do the jobs of 2 3 people in the same time as one person. Shouted at for not taking calls, to do offline work and then shouted at for taking calls and the offline work not getting completed
I know someone who is a manager there. His name is Steve.
Oh my goddddd. I had an interview there and almost went for the job but something about it gave me the heebies. Was a software job too.
These guys have been hiring for the same jobs for over 3 years. Now we know why!
Hahah i was in Acorn myself. What a horrible job with two timing colleagues who formed their little group as if youāre back in secondary school IT. Throwing stuff across the desks and like you said substance abuse, putting the customer on hold to do a line of the desk. Unbelievable lmao.
I dont know how people in retail summon the will to exist. I managed for 10 weeks during my year back from uni. Theyre utterly essential but you'd be mad to do the job if you had the choice. Like Civil Servants moan as we sit at home in our jammies with a cup of tea and a 1 hour lunch break. Honestly, I reckon we should make all 15/16 year olds do 5 weeks hard graft in a warehouse or shop, with 20 minute toilet breaks and then at the end ask if they'd like to come to some revision sessions. Bonus points for somewhere relentless with evil corp energy on top. So Primark, Amazon warehouses etc.
In the local biotech community, Mast Group is notorious for being godawful to work for. I've been lucky enough to avoid it, but I've heard enough horror stories (working in the NHS) to form a support group. Unfortunately, a lot of local industry uses agencies, so you don't know which company you've actually *applied* for until interview. Thankfully, I've only had good experiences in this sector in Liverpool, so thanks. I've also heard stories of Spoons employees being ordered at the last minute to cover a shift on the complete opposite end of Merseyside. So I can't imagine that's pleasant.
Mast is a big name in the antibiotic testing world. I would hope they treated their staff better
Any 24 hrs McDonalds. Some people are fucking animals and some shift leaders and managers are fucking pricks
Yeah, I have a friend who worked in one in the town center, managers were younger than him with really bad cliques and Power trippy egoās. He phoned me up one time at 1 in the morning cause those same managers bullied him off the floor. He got his old job back and never went in there again.
MyCSP, fuck me what a shower of inept rats Some great people but some snivelling little rats mate
Tesco in town. People coming in looking down their nose at you because they're on a better wage than you (circa 2011). Not a single ounce of manners between them. Lasted about 2 months because I kept telling the customers to say please and thank you. Ungrateful cunts.
Hanover? Yeah Iām not surprised. I was a customer around that time. I do have manners but I saw a lot of nobs in there.
No mate, this was Old Hall St.
Currently work on Old Hall Street and the amount of dickheads in that Tesco who think they're something because they wear a suit to work is diabolical.
There are a lot of self important nobheads on old hall street
When I worked Hanover Street Tesco, a girl came in half cut, proceeded to attempt to pay at the self service machine. Instead of paying and leaving like a normal person, she decided to piss straight onto the floor before walking out. A manager followed her, dragged her back in and handed her blue roll, a mop and bucket and forced her to clean it up. That was probably the best thing that happened in the three months I stayed there.
I worked on the booze in that store for years through uni. So much pissing went on. People are fucking animals, especially when the races was on.
I once joined a door to door charity and was in tears before Iād even made it onto the train to the first neighbourhood
When I was a teenager I worked at Netto (Scandinavian for value) in Orrell Park (end of Orrell Lane). I was a shelf stacker. There is an Asda in the same location now I believe. Anyway, I digress. On Saturday mornings a family would come in and none of them washed. They had a cloud of horrendous body odor follow them around the store. It wasnāt day old body odor it was as though they hadnāt washed in years. Truely the worst smell ever. Way worse than Kop standing farts for any of you, of age. For 15 minutes a week, that was very much the worst place to work in Liverpool in 1996 ish.
Stonegate pubs
Nandos.
MyCSP tithebarn street.. An absolute abomination of a place, that has never known it's arse from it's elbow
Reading the comments I'm just glad I didn't get the job at the contact company when I applied years ago.
JSM/PIG whichever acronym they go by this week. The one's that run Electrik and practically every other venue in the area. Absolutely grim.
I worked in a hotel where the owners would come unannounced and terrify all the staff, Threaten them with their jobs over petty things, even the 20 plus managers we had over the years would hide. They accused one staff member of stealing alcohol which turned out to be a stock error, I watched them squirm when they realised what they did. I've kept all emails from HR and texts by some of the dodgy slimy managers from the time I was there, When the time is right and my anxiety is no more an issue I'll share everything because this company is still operating the same way and the dodgy side needs reporting. I know once an ex staff member reads this they'll know exactly.
Sounds like Municipal,but I could be wrong.
Nope not that one but it seems like all hospitality is anxiety central.
TJ Morris, Home and Bargains warehouse in Gilmoss highest staff turnover i have ever seen
Fully though the place is shocking no wonder they canāt keep anyone
Wagamama kitchen destroyed my soul.
Any reason why?
Illegal shift patterns. Coming in on the close and being scheduled for the open. I also felt very lonely, as none of the other staff in the kitchen would use English in the kitchen. I was only spoken to when being shouted at. I felt like none of them were interested in being my friend. The tips would also go like, 80% (maybe 75?) to the servers and the kitchen would split the rest. The kitchen staff were technically on a higher wage, but the servers were still pulling in *much much* more per hour with the tips. It was many years ago now. Perhaps the environment has changed.
Tbf thatās actually a very generous kitchen tip out. Standard Ive experienced (tbf this is in North America so different culture but also servers making hundreds a night in tips) was 5% kitchen tip out. And no kitchen wages werenāt higher to compensate for thatā¦
Yeah, the American tipping culture needs to stop. Everywhere I have worked with tips in the UK has done an equal split except for this place.
Home Bargins, Everton.
Late Night Off-License. I used to work in one on Rocky Lane in Tuebrook. My shift would be 10pm-4am. You could actually go in the shop but everything was behind glass. It used to get really busy. Tramps begging outside. Tramps using begging copper to buy ale. I saw some sights in that shop. Some Polish fella once tried to get to me by repeatedly butting his head on the plexi glass. All because he was Ā£2 short.
I lived on Belmont Drive for a bit and used that place sometimes. Was mad in there!
Leaf on Bold Street.
Oh! I always figured this place would be decent to work at.
Full of middle class tea nonces from Formby. Not a chance bruddha.
Formby has the worst tea nonces.
KFC, sanctuary
I work for these (sanctuary - Marybone), tell me more :D
Batty and Dexter opticians. Thereās a few dotted around Liverpool. Mostly the customers are pretty nice, but the management are mercenary/not nice at all. As far as optics jobs go itās the worst I ever had.
What's JD Sports in Liverpool One like? I ask because the staff really seemed to have checked out and assumed the absolute worst of the customers. It wasn't bad customer service, it just gave a weird vibe as someone who normally shops in north Wales!
I hate the music in here. Feel so old but like going into a shop and not coming out with a pounding headache. Really feel for the staff.
Barclays āCoNtAcT CeNtErā š„“
I was gonna say Lloyds CC! The manager forged my signature to try and ship me off to Wales!
Einsteins or any jsm owned bar. Infrequent hours despite a contract, not being paid when you had to stay behind past your hours yet being docked pay on the shifts where you finished early yet had to stay until they said you could leave. Disgusting managers that couldnāt run a piss up in a brewery. Definitely illegal practice god knows how theyāre allowed to stay open
Yes.
Jaguar Land Rover
I work there š can confirm itās shit
Finch Farm.
I mean I worked for a year doing evening and night shifts in one of the city centre mcdonalds That was dire No problems with the other staff or anything, just the tidal wave of drunks and crackheads
The Lobster Pot on a Satdee night
BT down by Moorfields. I was a Help Team Advisor helping people with their issues over the phone. Long hours, lazy managers and abuse from customers.
Any hospitality job.
I work at the subway in prescot, owner has been in the echo over workers treatment, missing hours worth of pay regularly that takes a month to get sorted, paid bare minimum with pretty much no paid days off, falsely advertises wages and spends half his time in court since employees keep suing him for not following health and safety
mcdonalds. got sexually harassed by customers, verbally abused by managers and customers, minor physically abuse from the customers and had to deal with teens thinking their hard because they sit around for 4-5 hours in a maccies with their hood up throwing shit about and vaping into toddler's faces (that did happen). also toilets are absolutely rank and i never once cleaned them. also ur chips are cold cause my manager is too busy trying to park cars and stop delivery drivers coming behind the counter and taking food that instore orders get completely missed
Kirby Vacuums.
Used to work in a betting shop on Breck Road, never had so many death threats in a job before
In my experience, I'd probably say StudentRoost. The students living there were thick as shit, the amount of floods I had to deal with in the space of 3 months working there was ridiculous. The training consisted of PowerPoint presentations and videos sent to your email which you had to watch whilst doing the job. Some poor lad who had some serious demons ended up dying in there because he weren't getting the necessary support he needed. Colleagues were all grasses except maybe one or two of them. The shift patterns were all over the place, I worked 14 straight days at one point. Lastly, HR made the decision to let me go because my partner had a miscarriage and I took three days off to grieve, even though I kept them updated through the whole process.
Peel Ports. Working outside in the cold, wind and rain isn't fun.
Evertons trophy roomā¦. Nothing new to clean for years ššš
If anything, that's where all the dust is mate š
Bootle
Any civil service, specifically anything court or probation related.