Uncle Buck Reviews

3.5

62% would recommend to a friend

(41 total reviews)
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Steven George Murray

57% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Uncle Buck has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 41 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Uncle Buck employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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41 reviews
1.0
5 Oct 2017
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I worked for this company for close to 2 years. It started off as alright place to work but things began to go downhill after the first year. In January I had to take UNPAID leave for one day as my youngest sister was ill and unable to go to school, my Mother was out of the country therefore I could not come to work because I had to look after her. I had followed the correct procedures called in and explained the situation to a manager and had taken the day as unpaid leave. During my unpaid time off, I was called by a number of my colleagues only to be told they had been taken off the dialler (where the company makes money) one by one and taken into a meetings and quizzed about my whereabouts and was accused of going on holiday, can you imagine??? My colleagues were asked all sorts of ridiculous questions such as my social media accounts and whether I had ever discussed going on holiday. Upon my return to work I was asked to attend a meeting on 3 occasions in a dark room with no windows for hours on end in an attempt to interrogate me about my sister and was asked really intrusive and invasive information about my household. To make it worse they had googled my sisters illness and printed information about it and attempted to cross examine me with this information. They went though all that trouble for a day that they had not paid me! I guess the case was thrown out due to insufficient evidence. I few of us hit our targets and were never recognised for our excellence because we refused to do compulsory overtime while others who did an additional 100 hours a week and never managed to hit target were praised regularly. We were banned from talking, had the microwave, dishwasher, cutlery, radio and TV taken away. I was given a disciplinary for forgetting to lock my screen at the end of the day

2.0
22 Jul 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Not much to say here, the team members are nice

Cons

Awful managers who talk down at you, misleading job role (they don't tell you the role is debt collecting during interview process). Honestly the management are the absolute worst, they try to turn team members against each other, treat you like school children, and if you don't hit target - they really go off on you.

1.0
4 Oct 2017

Better off signing on

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Made good friends Old management amazing

Cons

Ever since MASS AND HIS MINIONS TOOK OVER it was the worse place to work. Vile...i forgot I wasn't at school anymore.. the most petty stuff ever... if your late by 2 mins you would have a disciplinary... if you had an opinion don't use it as your be shown the door..if you laugh you get told your have another disciplinary... if you have something medically wrong you need to take a day off and get a doc note to prove your not lying...if you stand up for one minute your told to sit down... although if you standing up you actually sound better on the phone... your talking to the person next to you because there is no work to do as they have no money left and no work to do you still get told off... oh one good thing at Xmas you get to make Xmas cards because the website gets turned off because they cannot fund. Honestly I would not recommend this company to my worst enemy... managers do not speak with you directly all done through emails. I would rather stick a thousand needles in my eye then work here...look elsewhere or sign on to the dole... I was saved but other people are stuck in a hole... get yourself out of there

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