Abusive environment with serious safety violations and low pay - Kitchen Porter/Waiter Butlins Employee Review

1.0
19 Jun 2026
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Pros

There are no real pros

Cons

Minimum wage, what that says is that if they could pay you less, they would. Minimum wage means a bad employer. If an employer only makes the minimum effort to pay employees, why would those employees have any incentive to put in anything other than minimum effort to the job? Think about that before you apply because that's who you'll be working with. They regularly break established employee rights and say "Oh that's an ideal world" as a defence. No Butlin's it's the LAW. As an example, they stopped supplying vital PPE aprons, their excuse being "They don't use them at Minehead". They should have been prosecuted for that alone. They actually had a sign on the wall that said, and I'm not kidding here. "Employees may not leave until all their tasks have been completed". Seriously, I even took a picture of it. On several occasions they completely lost all hot water, And they expected us to continue cleaning equipment with cold water. The restaurant should have been shut down. The sanitation violations alone there were ridiculous. I suffered prolonged physical and mental abuse by other employees. Management knew what was happening and they did nothing, just looked the other way, absolutely despicable. I am still suffering with mental health issues today as a result.

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5.0
28 Jan 2022
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Pros

Job satisfaction, You meet new people.

Cons

its hard work and a lot of chalets to clean.

1.0
18 Apr 2026
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Pros

If there was more training for managers maybe they would think twice before bullying people to try and make themselves feel important. Anxiety attacks and headaches now stopped.

Cons

No one should have to endure being targeted from new management trying to make a point. Being gay isn’t a crime and nothing to do with anyone. Was made very ill and made to feel sick to the stomach knowing he would never let up until I was gone. A job I loved turned into a nightmare because of this hateful man. People like him should never be in charge of anything or anybody. The lovely guests actually put some lovely things about me on line and I was very touched. I suppose that’s why he went so full on to try and make me look bad. What the guests thought of me is far more important to me than his opinion.

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