More Cons than Pros - Anonymous employee Savers Employee Review

1.0
9 Sept 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Staff Discount! Staff Discount! Staff Discount! shift goes fast, having Mondays off and working with friendly Co workers & Customers.

Cons

When I first started working at Savers, I was put into production area. I was excited because it was something I was looking forward to. My first month there I came to an understanding of what everyone's job description was and boy was I unhappy. You have Supervisor's & Managers walking around like Kings & Queens while everyone is working like animals because of the high expectations of there daily targets. It's ridiculous! CRAZY! I wasn't used to see things like this because when I was a Supervisor/Manager I would always help my staff no matter what. I was told that Supervisor's & Managers in Production are meant to direct the team and not do the job for them. Really???!!! When it was really busy and we were short staffed I've had supervisors/managers walk past constantly and not lend a hand, instead asking "is everything okay?" What about DO YOU NEED HELP? I've also had Supervisors walk past in the production area while we're all struggling on the lines and say 'I'M BORED, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO" wth! If you desperately need your short staffed team members to hit their targets than HELP OUT instead of asking What happened?! Why didn't you's clear the lines? I have never come across a workplace with such unprofessional staff members who don't care about the staff. MORE HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK I also found that in the my workplace there is a lot of favouritism happening. Best friends who are good friends with the managers aswell as being promoted as Supervisors. Keeping secrets from staff. Supervisors talking about other team members and making fun of them. We also had the store managers son being put into an area where another team member was supposed to be in. They didn't announce it at all during the staff meeting because they knew it would upset the other co-worker. So why do it in the first place if you knew it was wrong?! Not telling the other lazy staff what to do properly instead letting the other good workers do the dirty work for them! Everything in Production is not worth it because you're pretty much getting paid as the front in Retail. Our job description is classified under Retail because we're constantly rolling out items on the floor. How cunning is that for SAVERS to do, so they don't have to pay the Production workers more even though they work twice as harder than retail workers/supervisors/managers. The only bonus you have is getting dust in you face! Give PRODUCTION workers what they really deserve... a PAY RISE! & also put more staff on the TABLES & LINES so staff aren't always under pressure and absent from work due to STRESS and sore muscles from high impossible targets! It's absolutely ridiculous and inhumane. You's say Savers care about the wellbeing of Earth what about the wellbeing of staff members? If you take of you're employees than they will take care of your company! SAVERS YOUR WHOLE PRODUCTION SYSTEM NEEDS TO CHANGE! YOU SHOULDN'T LET YOUR EMPLOYEES WORK LIKE ANIMALS, IT'S REALLY DISGUSTING! I just can't believe there is a workplace like SAVERS that really exist. It really is SLAVERS not SAVERS.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

The pay is just over minimum wage. There is no work life balance they don't offer holiday pay and require you to work on all holidays except for Christmas and Thanksgiving. They constantly add new thing to the job and will never give you a pay raise or advancement. All around bad company that's taking advantage of working class Americans.

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