awful - Retail Assistant Primark Employee Review

1.0
3 Feb 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

you know the exact hours you will be working each week

Cons

Everything else. The most boring part time job ever, time in there moves in slow motion, honestly rather watch paint dry. No fun at all cant even have a conversation with a customer without a manager being in your face yet they sit on their phones all shift or sit and yap to each other. There is a clear bias as some workers will be allowed to roam around the shop like its there own home and kick the feet up whilst others will be made to slave away getting the worst shifts constantly. Great place to work if you want flashbacks to primary school as you have to ask for permission to go to the toilet or get a drink of water, sometimes you are even told no or that there is a queue. you are limited to 3 shift swaps a year and they need made 3 weeks or more in advance despite the whole point in swapping shifts is usually down to last minute plans.

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5.0
5 Mar 2026
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Pros

reasonable, low stress, good PTO practices, consistent schedule

Cons

leadership was not the best

2.0
5 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You get lots of PTO up front as a part timer and can gain flex hours overtime. Get a 50 cent raise every six months.

Cons

Was told during onboarding that if a Christian comes into the store spreading the gospel, I have to kick them out. This includes the mention of the Jesus without the church invite. Managers claim its rude and if a customer does it, they get booted. Faced harassment from a customer and management didn't let me switch too a different department. Extremely high turnover rate and managers don't replace them, making your job more stressful during peak hours. Hard to use PTO. Little to no training. Too many bachelor and master holding part timers who get lucked out of moving up in the company. Managers give some people no task while pilling on multiple tasks on one person. Too many managers to deal with (and usually never find) and the full timers make you do the dirty work while they "unpack boxes". Its a pro-LGBT anti christian company. If they want to be pro-LGBT, than more power to them. But anti-Christian is discriminatory and unnecessary.

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