Pros
- Perfectly highlighted what type of company / employer I do not want to work for.
Cons
Incredibly odd place to work. I have worked in large London companies which have cultures of bullying, sexism and gender pay gaps and nothing compares to WCF Chandlers.
There is one specific female employee who has been at the company for nearing 15+ years and essentially is apart of the furniture and can get away with treating any newcomer as they please. It has happened to multiple newcomers and they will not be confronted on this behaviour as they are essentially untouchable.
It is common practice to bring anyone on probation or contractual forms of employment to meetings with zero warning and confront them with these ‘issues’ which you can never actually respond to as they have already made up their mind to terminate your employment before you actually arrive to the meeting. One female employee who was a contractual member of staff was fired in the middle of the day and we were not informed by senior managers that she had left, we simply found out by employees gossiping that she had been fired and comments such as ‘well she was never truly one of us’ were thrown around. Extremely unprofessional behaviour and odd management of a sensitive situation.
Anyone who will be joining this team should be aware you are working within a company with multiple family members among the team. This therefore means that anything said / done on the office floor is fed back to the manager ( who is a blood relative of low level employees ) and in the same token, anything said to your manager can and will be relayed back to those same family members, even outside of work in their personal private time.
In my first week with the company I informed my manager of a private health issue and her relative ( another colleague ) told me in passing they knew about my health issue even though I told my senior manager in confidence and explicitly stated I did not want anyone else in the team to know. This is clearly common practice for this company as someone else references this same issue in a review for WCF Chandlers on Indeed.
I genuinely would urge anyone to heavily consider working here, it isn’t long until you see the cracks and how small and narrow minded your new colleagues are.
Racist views regarding the NHS wait times and how this relates to immigrants were passed around the office freely. Even a senior member of the team stating they engaged in fox hunting.
Good luck to anyone taking on a contract of employment here!
