Simply Fantastic - Retail Customer Service Representative Hastings Direct Employee Review

5.0
26 Jun 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Great Support - Great Culture - Great Training - Decent Pay-to-Role ratio - Great Career Progression - Decent Equipment - Great Positivity - Great Structure - Great individual and collective mindset aka 4Cs (Colleague, Customer, Company, Community) and Digital 2.0 - Great Benefits - Great People

Cons

- Somewhat Micromanaged, but to be expected in the type of role discussed here. - Can be difficult to deal with sometimes hostile and verbally aggressive customers, but again... to be expected in a Customer Service Role. - Semi-mandatory Hybrid working model, meaning some people have to come in once a week to their "local" (closest) office, others don't, depending on role, department, whether they joined from an aggregation of previous partner business into Hastings Group and whether Team leaders care whether you are in office or not enough to look out for times where you don't. "Grey areas" is a common theme. - "Grey areas is a common theme". You will often find that individual people are great, individual departments even more so... but there are a LOT of inter-departmental issues that the current model and structure doesn't fully address properly but work is in progress to fix this as I type so won't be as big an issue going forward.

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Hastings Direct Response
11mo
Thank you for leaving such a thorough review – we appreciate the time you’ve taken and will share your comments. Remember we have the Your Voice survey twice a year which is another way to raise some of the points you’ve suggested. All the best – we hope you’ll continue to be happy here.

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