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Doug Perkins
324 Ratings
Pros
"Great team, great managers a busy but supportive environment" (in 30 reviews)
"Reliable job, often a good team to work with" (in 25 reviews)
Cons
"Minimum wage for the amount of training and knowledge you are expected to gain" (in 49 reviews)
"Low pay for what can be a very stressful job" (in 30 reviews)
Pros & Cons are excerpts from user reviews. They are not authored by Glassdoor.
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Great benefits, bonus, opportunities. People and culture are great. Also great office parties and bonus celebrations.
Cons
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- Former Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Pros
Great progression good benifits Great training avaliable Decent oppurtunity to move if needed
Cons
Pay is sub par for the amount of medical knolledge you have to learn to be good at your job, Hours tend to be heavy with no overtime pay
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 10 years★★★★★
Pros
Climbing the ladder is within arms reach if you want it. Various paths to choose, clinical, business, lab the choices are there should you want it. Opportunities to develop into a store partner via pathway. Job security is a big thing too and that’s certainly the case with Specsavers.
Cons
Salaries are not competitive due to flurry of potential candidates therefore experience and length of service can be easily overlooked. Becoming a joint venture partner is particularly tricky if you’re not from a wealthy background, the shares are too expensive for an experience store manager to buy into which is a shame.
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Friendly and helpful colleagues. Interesting work and feel important and helpful doing this role, get good benefits after 3 months.
Cons
Work load is outrageous for the pay, the expertise required and knowledge to be able to do the job does not reflect on the amount of pay. Minimum wage for this job is beyond a joke
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
If you value self esteem, having validation for doing your job well and being properly compensated, then don't work for this company. As you may guess, there are no Pros to working here.
Cons
Micro managing (not even from the managers), belittlement, poor rate of pay, being told to your face that you and every single member of staff is easily replaceable and a suitable substitute could be found by the director heading out into the street and recruiting complete strangers. That last one was a speech from one of the store directors from a genuine staff morning meeting.
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Fantastic leaders in the market, skilled teams however short term goals
RecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
- Fantastic in terms of technology training and support from a big team and network. - Pay is good and environment is friendly. - Has great structure is you'd like to progress within a team - Set work hours -
Cons
- Expect weekend shifts and have a very authoritarian structure. -Has little care about staffs emotional needs and how work stress impacts staff. - Shop floor has little pay for learning a lot and are underappreciated. - Seen as retail. There are customers that are abusive. - There are little to no employee benifits. No sick pay and no care if you were to be taken ill/maternity.
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Friendly staff and decent hours, fairly sociable aswell.
Cons
Not to much progression unless you’re willing to do a customer facing role, work load can be a lot sometimes, occasionally unrealistic targets etc
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Training, Colleagues, Supportive Management and a healthy work environment. Enjoy going to work in a morning
Cons
Wages are too poor for the job you do and the level of knowledge required.
- Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Felixibke working hours was very good
Cons
Had to work on Sundays
- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Computer system easy to use
Cons
Store dynamic varies between stores
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