Not what they claim to represent - Supermarket Assistant Waitrose Employee Review

2.0
14 Dec 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The interview stage was the only positive experience about this company. It was 30 minutes and the hiring manager was a very nice man.

Cons

I worked there one day and I quit the first day. Why? Firstly it took 5 weeks between interview stage and starting day. Nobody contacted me in the run up to my start date telling me what time to come in, who to ask for and what to wear. I made endless calls the day before with no luck only to talk to a line manager who did not care and said "I dont know, come in at 10am alright bye". This was supposedly my line manager. After calling the whole day that was my answer. Upon arrival of my first day I was brought up to a room and sat at a computer where I had to do my training online. I was left for 6 hours by myself to do this where nobody came back for me or to check on me. There was a lot of difficult stuff to get through with some things I did not understand and nobody around to ask. I was not given training face to face, shown around the building/staff area. I was not given a uniform or shown where to come in the following morning as it was a 7am start before the store even opened. It was a lot of stress and a lot of effort on my part to get people to try and help me even though they were the ones recruiting me that I decided to leave for the lack of efficiency and total unprofessional work ethic of the management.

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Waitrose Response
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Thank you for your providing this information regarding your recent experience at Waitrose Abingdon. Please be assured that providing a professional, consistent and welcoming process for our new Partners is something we all strive for. It sounds like this was not the case for you so please accept our apologies for the shortfall in service. If you would like to discuss the matter further please feel free to email us: recruitment@partnershipservices.co.uk and one of our colleagues would be happy to help.

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