Limited movement even when the company is "growing" - Department Manager Primark Employee Review

2.0
7 Jun 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

This company is opening 60 stores in the US by 2026.

Cons

This company is going through a management restructuring in 2024. It now has very little movement opportunities after reaching the Department manager role. The next role would be Assistant Store Manager. In the past the NY metro area stores would have 3-6 Assistant Store Managers. Now as of this restructuring they are limiting the position to 1 per store. During this restructuring the Department manager are now being giving tasks and duties that were once the responsibility of a higher role (which meant higher income and better title) with-out seeing any increase in wages. At the same time this company continues to bring over Store Managers from their European stores. This again limiting the chances of moving up with this company. Primark is managing their business to be all mid level managers with very little career enhancements.

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5.0
5 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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