If I could give 0 stars, I would - Retail Sales Associate Primark Employee Review

1.0
5 Feb 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- You will meet good coworkers - Decent pay for high schoolers or college students

Cons

-White/Hispanic supervisors will talk about you behind your back and give you dirty looks -HR never answers the phone and is very rude at times -Will criticize you for the way you work -Doesn't allow black employees to talk to each other but white/hispanic employees can do whatever they please -Supervisors and managers like to get in your face and get loud with you -Definitely don't know how to talk to their employees or how to treat them -Employee bathroom always closed and dirty. Customer bathrooms dirty as well -Garbage always piling up in the break room and fitting rooms -Never listening to the workers request -Don't request for time off during November-December you won't get it, they overwork you during the holidays and no they don't care about your personal life. -Will give you crazy hours during Black Friday and if you can't be there for whatever reason the only thing they will tell you is don't show up -Expects workers to find something to do when there is nothing to fix and there are no customers -If you work less than 5.5 hours, money will be taken out your check for a break you do not get -Working 4-5 hours you will not get a break, not even a 10 minute or a 15 minute break -Being sent to other floors to work as punishment -Does not appreciate their black employees, even though that is the majority race of people employed there -Had to beg for a permanent employee discount -Managers allowing supervisors to talk to employees any kind of way and the only thing said is "no matter what happens, that's still your supervisor"

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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
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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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