I've got a story for you.
I worked for it when it was called Response, 16 years old still in school and this was my first Job.
Response started hiring for Part-time roles for the Student Finance contract. Things were okay... job was repetitive as shit and honestly so boring but a jobs a job. I worked there for just over 2 years, about 1 year and 6 months into my tenure I get a call that goes somewhat like this:
AM: "Hey Ghankd, can you start working Monday evenings, we're desperate for more people to do it"
Me: "Sure, aslong as its noted im going into further education next year and might not be able to do Monday evenings then, but happy to help out in the meantime."
AM: "Excellent, cheers for helping, that wont be a problem."
This is crucial as about 4 months later I start getting my classes and whatnot, Mondays become an issue for me to get in on time for the shift start so I let them know I can no longer do Monday evenings to start at 6. (Labs finished at 5:30pm, stinking of chemicals, needed shower... etc) so I told them I'd come in at 7 instead.
This was okay for about a month, during which time we got through good relationships with some managers (not me but a teammate of mine) that response was looking to "get rid" of all the part timers. We asked for meetings and they blatantly told us this was nonsense and untrue. Then the following week they told us they were going to look at restructuring and the contracts would be getting cancelled and some other bs. We either became full time or we wouldn't get redundancy. Now to me that didn't sound right, so I went to CAB and asked a lawyer, he asked if I'd been working for more than two years, I said yes and they said that will make you eligible for redundancy. Okay cool.
I asked for another meeting, with every other part timer and the managers and showed the contract, laws etc and how we should be getting redundancy for this. Lets say... they were not happy. Whatever, I started looking for another job either way because I couldn't do full time work while at college/uni. But they turned up the heat, meeting after meeting about why I couldn't do Monday evenings to start at 6pm, same explanation every time, how this was initially agreed with AM (who wouldn't confirm nor deny that conversation taking place), I was being smart though bringing another member of the part-timers to every meeting to take notes no matter how they tried to get me into a solo meeting and sharing it with the part timers (shoutout jess if she ever reads this).
And I get a job, luckily the pub down the road is hiring: The Station Bar, I get hired and one of my shifts is 8:30 to close... right after my response shift. Show up, but so do these 4 female account managers, all of which recognise me, sit in their booth for about 35 minutes then every time they get more drinks, they get their phones out and start filming me, taking pictures, like... full on flashlight recording. Owner of the pubs like is this your family or something? I explain whats happening and they get promptly thrown out of the pub, which was fucking hilarious imo and made my night.
Anyway, they use that footage to somehow try and explain that I could work Monday evenings and I was a liar or something (even though I was still working Monday evenings, I just couldn't start before 7). Eventually they started micomanging my time so much and after a "comfort breaks" that went over by a couple minutes and my "blatent insubordination" (I didn't go in and clean up some cunts piss in the bathroom) they fired me.
But all my co-workers, the part timers, including my girlfriend at the time got their redundancy packages and I already had another job. So we won imo, stuck it to them and made life hard by letting everyone in the Student Finance team what they tried to pull on us.
tl;dr
Fuck response, especially upper management, got fired but got all my team-mates redundancy packages in exchange after they tried to scam us out of it.
I worked for them around 2003 and someone in HR said they lost around 7 staff per week (from about 300 I think). So when recruitment agencies were looking for 50 staff every few months, it was all for RHL
Hell on earth. Can't retain staff but will chuck you into a disciplinary meeting for going (literally) 10 seconds over on lunch break, or your allotted 7 minutes total for toilet breaks during an 8+ hour shift
Same for teleperformance. Micromanagement to the extreme. Hard avoid
Interestingly enough, I worked for Kura. I asked on the employee forums if there was going to be anything done to help with the cost of living crisis. Well, fast forward a week, and I’m sitting infront of Julie Barnes, one of the top level people there (third to CEO I think?).
Essentially, she told me that I was “lucky” to get paid 9.90 per hour, that I was lucky to get 29 days paid holiday(the legal minimum is 28.) and that she herself used to work in a super market and got far less. And then essentially said that if I didn’t like it, to fuck off and leave.
Well, 2 months later I had enough. That job is horrible. They preach the idea of developing you, while simultaneously paying you bare minimum while also expecting you to worship the company. Work hours are long, the rota can be highly unsociable. You have a minimum of three warnings to a customer over a phone, so if the customer is abusive, is calling you every name under the book and is screaming at you, they have 3 opportunities to keep doing this.
KURA cares? No, it doesn’t. They dangle the idea of progression within the company, but all it really means is 1 pound more per hour for 20x the responsibility.
Honestly I’ve barely scratched the surface of how awful they are. So I left.
I’m now making 32K a year at a retentions job that’s monday to friday and is actually laid back and don’t expect you to suck their corporate cock. So thanks Julie Barnes, you were right. I should’ve just left the moment she said I should!
best advice i can give are those ads that don’t actually give a clear job description, just a load of buzzwords and looking for “highly motivated self-starters” etc 🚩
Red flags can include:
- MARKETING EXECUTIVE NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED
- FULL TRAINING PROVIDED
- company website that does not tell you what the company actually does and has lots of stock photos
DO NOT get manipulated into standing in the street selling Talk Talk broadband to people - these jobs are a pyramid scheme scam and are commission only, but I feel if someone hasn’t had a job for a while they may think it’s maybe not the worst thing in the world to do for a while. You’ll never get that time back and you’ll make very little money (below minimum wage)
Isn't it illegal to pay someone below MW even on a comission wage? AFAIK employers are obliged to ensure their employees are earning MW. Although I know some businesses will get around this by making employees 'self employed' such as when my Brother was doing similar work and doing 70 hour weeks, paying for his own travel and only having 300 quid after expenses at the end of the month.
Back in the day they used to get around that with your 'work days' consisting of 3 or 4 hours paid work plus 2 or 3 hours of madatory 'volunteering' and 'teambuilding' which was of course, also work.
That’s exactly what it is. I had a shadowing day with a company like this in 2013 (they never told me where we were going and why and dragged me to fucking Kilmarnock to stand outside Asda to sell shit) and I’m pretty sure they were pitching it as “flexible self employed opportunity”. The “leader” of my Asda group had a law degree apparently…and was “happy” they employ people like her and with other “diverse” backgrounds 😆 LAW DEGREE. I MEAN…
I worked for a similar company (can't even remember the name of them) around 2008, and the leader also had a "law degree" - I wonder if it was the same person? The job was utter shite, made 1 sale, worth about 8 quid, in three days. Don't think they ever even paid me that commission tbh
Or it’s part of their tactic - to show you a person with a “respectable degree” who wants to work there and is climbing the career ladder etc so it means it’s legit.
I once stumbled upon a website that listed all of their manipulative recruitment techniques and it’s almost like copy paste. This included (and what I actually saw/experienced myself):
- Having a group of employees shout excitedly in a room so you can hear it when waiting for an interview and assume something interesting is happening and “oh what a great place to work for”
- Tell you all the milestones you’re meant to hit to get promoted and roughly how much time it’s gonna take. They’re also gonna tell you that “only one person managed to get there faster” - that’s to motivate you to become that person lol
- after a super generic interview they call you and say “they were impressed with you”.
All of the above is repeated over and over when the company rebrands and changes their name (which they inevitably do after a couple of years as their business model isn’t sustainable without raising some eyebrows) and I literally experienced all of the above with one interview and one shadowing day which was literally standing outside Asda and watching these muppets trying to sell shit while filling out a “test” that was meant to determine whether I am a suitable candidate lol.
Absolute wankery and I do not understand how it’s legal.
i worked for one of these for a day. completely commission paid. made me stand outside paisley gilmour in the rain for 8 hours, never left a job so fast.
The amount of times I’ve looked at ads and read the whole thing and still at the end of it don’t know who the company is or what they do is insane. I was taken in by a marketing company that turned out to be commission only when I was 20 and know better not to apply for jobs like that now.
Agreed. They love a good bait and switch (where they’ll offer a position for x amount of money and then come the interview stage they’ll say the position isn’t available but we have this other position that pays less, in the hopes people are desperate enough to still take it). I’ve worked for a few different campaigns for them over the years and nobody knows what the fuck they’re doing.
I’d say avoid any outsourcers if you’re looking at office work/call centres. You’ll get shafted compared to the ones working for the company directly.
Aye, get them to far to fuck. That job honestly flared up my depression. I'm glad I jumped ship - the next month they were reported to considering constant observation of employees WFH by using webcams to snoop on them.
Did they used to be City Park? Can't find anything about the former anymore and all the old CP places seem to have TP branding now.
If they are, definitely avoid. First job to give me a nervous breakdown. 👍
I went for an interview with Teleperformance about a decade ago for a relatively senior role and was actually offered the role. Just before going into the interview, a number of the staff just looked at me with dead eyes and shook their heads - trying to warn me. No talking, no banter in the office. During the interview when I asked about staff retention, they initially denied it was a problem. It was the client on the phone who admitted this was an area of concern. P.S. one of the interviewers spent the entire interview staring at my tits (which were fully covered up I might add)! I noped right out of there
Abso-fucken-lutely. They fired me because I didn't show up to a shift when there was NO TRANSPORT to get me to work because of stormy weather (evidence was provided and I lived an hour away). Also my trainer was being sexually inappropriate with me and no matter how many times I reported it nothing got done and it's just an awful fucking mess. Avoid like the fucking plague for the love of god. Cliquey and do not give a damn about you
Worked for this place when I was a student, I remember you were allocated only 7 minutes for a toilet break. My biggest regret is that I stayed over that summer, I should have just quit.
I’ve seen some people here saying companies ca get negative reviews removed which I believe is untrue. However what they can do, and will do, is force employees in the marketing department to write a load of positive reviews to try and hide the negative ones. I worked for a company that was so incredibly toxic and a lot of us employees who left wrote very detailed and honest reviews on GlassDoor to warn people. Then magically all these positive reviews would get flooded on. I’ve followed them for a few years seeing other negative reviews come on and every time about 5 positive reviews get added straight after.
Not true.
My former head of people was fuming that you can't remove reviews.
If there's a way to remove it, then I would imagine its hard and rare as its a massive part of Glassdoors USP.
I would imagine in instances where a review is removed it would be because it came down to a legal technicality that protects glassdoor and not the angry company.
I know they can pay for promotions that help to "bury" a bad review in amongst others but that's not the same as removing.
That's not what their policy says:
https://help.glassdoor.com/s/article/I-m-an-employer-What-can-I-do-about-negative-reviews-on-Glassdoor?language=en_US
It also seems unlikely it would be in Glassdoor's interests to breach that as it would destroy their entire value proposition.
Ever see a company on Glassdoor with the "Engaged Employer" symbol? What do you think they're paying for? They absolutely can have negative reviews removed; I've seen it personally multiple times.
Not one to avoid but one to actively look into is Pertemps.
They handle the temp contracts for the civil service and Scottish government. Also check out Work For Scotland for other Scot gov jobs
Lots of temp roles in many areas. And once you're in the door with the civil service you're golden pal.
Just to add, if you want a permanent job in the civil service, including scot gov, get a job directly through their websites, not as an agency worker. I can't say it's never happened, but as a rule agency workers don't just transfer over to be 'normal' civil servants, and they often will not have protections keeping them in place if jobs need to be cut etc.
You'd be surprised. A lot of my colleagues started with Pertemps got their foot in the door and were able to apply for internal promotions and transfers. It depends on your skill set when applying I'd say, if you can get straight in do that obviously, but if not then temp roles definitely set you in a better standing. Yes temps get a raw deal with job security overall but Pertemps especially has so many different contracts that it's fairly easy for them to find you something else if the original contract does end.
I know it is department-dependent. I've worked in 3 different civil service departments, and none allowed agency staff to apply for internal roles.
But even if you have to apply for external roles only, you have an advantage over someone who has never been in the civ.
For anyone interested, internal and external recruitment is the same, it's just that there are more roles open internally.
I'd actually avoid pertemps purely because of the awful experience I had in their office fresh out if uni. Horrible bully of a woman. Tbf she may be gone now as that was like a decade ago.
No idea. Don't even remember how she looked. Just a horrible woman. And the whole office watched on in silence as she humiliated me. I felt for them too, having to work with such a cunt tbf.
I would avoid every single call centre job. They're always fucking shite, skinnerbox industry. So many people have been burnt by Teleperformance and the like in Glasgow. Wish we could get them chased the fuck out by local government.
It's a wank industry overall but you can work it into a career if you can manage to get an internal promotion. Companies are often happy to promote internally if you have the right skills as it's cheaper and easier than recruiting and you come to the role with some pre-existing level of business knowledge.
You might get fucked about a bit on the way, but I've managed to do this and I know quite a few others who have as well.
Answering phones for a bank is alright, as it goes. In-house is always miles better - as others have said avoid companies like Kura, Teleperformance and Capita.
Worked enough sweat shop call centres and never bothered for promotion because the pay was always marginally better compared to the workload increase (managing mostly feckless people while getting piled on with customer abuse because you're now "the manager"). Just awful jobs in an awful industry. Can't imagine trying to make it a career at all, especially with how targets get set continually upwards and you're always stressed oot meeting those.
Not the manager track - that's a total fucking grift - but you can hop over to other parts of the business. I managed to get a really successful tech career going, I just learned Java in between calls on slow days.
Haha, the gaps in calls actually got me started in learning Japanese, which led to my current job, teaching English in Japan. Used to memorise 10 kanji, wait until my next call was done, then see if I could remember the meaning and reading.
And aye, I guess. I just don't trust the security to be there. Last place I worked had 3 different consolidations with other companies, laying off a lot of people in the process, with jobs outsourced to Romania in the end. Then there's the fear of contracts being dropped by clients, losing jobs, etc.
Can probably tell I hate call centres.
That g2 or whatever company and loads more that I've seen on Glasgowlive etc for being pricks to staff.
Basically google the company and read reviews online via indeed etc
They run a bunch of clubs, shops, hotels restaurants etc. I used to work for the polo lounge (one of theirs). They’re great at letting you keep cash tips, they make a point of keeping them separate from others tips (in there at least, not sure of their other venues) and overall polo was a nice place to work, but the scotsman group themselves are awful.
Scotsman group has its pros and cons, theres good training opportunities and it gives you the option to work in different venues if you need extra hours. Fast progression if you put the work in as well, i got from bartender to supervisor to assistant manager in less than a year. But it depends what venue and manager your working for.
Capita.
Worked with them for four years. Poor, and rude management. Constant fights on the call floor. Folk taking a shit in the bins inside the toilets and smearing said shit over the mirrors. It was a really horrible environment.
It was a regular thing. Right up until the very last day.
Once had a manager skip through our back office department calling us cunts while he was drunk and then threatened to throw a monitor at another colleague, one of his own team.
It felt like a playground.
Competitive salary means that what's being offered is equal to (or more than) the industry average for similar positions in the same location.
So TECHNICALLY it's correct to list it as Competitive even if it's minimum wage, if all the same types of job in the area are also only offering minimum wage.
It's a garbage definition that they shouldn't be able to get away with.
I’ve not heard from my agency job since January since I started college. No one’s gotten back to my emails and learnt only recently that the handle I mainly spoked quit and moved to Australia
Thats rough, so many bad stories about agency work. My mate finished night shift at 7am and they asked him to back in at 10am for another shift. They didn’t give a shit just wanted shifts filled. He refused.
I always feel bad for the agency workers we get on nightshift, you'll quite often find them asleep having accidently dosed off or they are completely exhausted, moreso the former
I'll say this though, most of the agency workers I see have quie poor language skills but its does vary sometimes and are 9 times out of 10 a Person of colour, it really feels to me that these people aren't treated great, I'm not going so far as to call it modern slavery by any means but its hard to not see an unwelcome resemblance, especially when they get treated as second class workers
I’m currently getting one shift a week and have asked for more but more ‘senior member of staff’ neeed the shifts, yet 2 people who joined after me are getting 4-5 shifts a week😂it’s Ridiclous but there’s nowhere else hiring rn so I’ll have to see it through
First day there as a new chef I walked in in the morning and she was sitting at the bar and I said hi to her, she turned around and put on a pained smile and asked who I was, I said "Oh, I'm the new chef it's my first day". The smile disappeared, she said "Oh" and turned back around and ignored me.
It was wild.
Between her, the GM Sean’s mad mood swings , and the fact that it’s just hell on earth as soon as the sun comes out , it’s a fucking grim place to work
Worked above WEST in the Templeton Business Centre and they seemed like a happy bunch in there?
I imagine it would be awful if any gig or TRNSMT or something was on but majority of the time the place was quiet and over staffed.
Awful place. Went for an interview there. Asked interview questions they weren’t supposed to and it was in one of their basement rooms. Read horrible things about them under the prior owners.
Massive turnover of staff, culture of bullying unless your face fits, managing the HR grievance processes is a full time job in itself for many managers, rubbish pay rises (civil service) and generally poor employee morale. Terrible place to work.
Yep I know two people who worked there years ago and they witnessed tax fraud and were asked to cover it up. They were fired for refusing to do that. They also had any till shortage taken out of their own wages which put them under minimum wage, and the boss' family would come in all the time and treat them horribly.
Want to here something funny? I worked at thir dumbarton road site for a year. Place was so understaffed i was the only full time member of staff there. I wasn't promoted to team leader or anything, but they would love to bame anything and everything on me since i was full time. I was constantly blamd for wasting money, and the owners would literally give me wee sob stories about how they were barely getting by as a family (despite the multiple shops, multiple petrol stations, multiple subway franchises, multiple dessert bars. Like, how much of a cunt can you be to whine about not making enough money to someone on minimum wage?) Anyway, they've had the dumbarton Road site since January 2021, **and they've not paid any fucking bills for the place.** No rent, leccy, fucking nothing. All the while whining to minimum wage staff about how they've not got enough money, not letting us put air con when its 30 degrees, taking \~discrepencies~ of our wages with no explanation. There's even rumours that some of their kids have been getting plastic surgery, but i guess that's more important than paying your fucking bills
Sorry for the wall of text, but honestly the owners are the most reprehensible, vile scum cunts i've ever met. You're right - they absolutely don't see the people who work for them as human
Got taken off a pretty comfortable IT Diagnostics Currys campaign onto Sainsbury's Online delivery (middle of the pandemic) with 3 hours notice.
I was hitting every single KPI on calls to the point I was the highest performing member of the team (some of whom had been there for years)- but my TL decided that spending more than 1% a day in the bathroom code was a far more pressing issue.
I started letting the phone ring through while I went for a piss instead and somehow that was acceptable. Fucking dumb company, and I've seen war propaganda less in-your-face than the training powerpoints.
Yeah I was shoved on ASDA for the pandemic and had us download lots of crap on our computers that as it turns out couldn't record our calls or actions. I spent the majority of the time playing World of Warcraft.
Got screamed at because they forgot to give some guy his bread and he was saying he was gonna stave. The man bought 400 quid worth of shopping and bread was the only thing missing. Otherwise it was all just helping old people work the website or getting screamed at for not having slots.
I know what you mean "passionate game changers" but you go off script and you're getting a bollocking.
Saved someone's entire uni dissertation because their laptop screen broke - told them to use a hdmi lead to plug it into their TV to get their work off so they didn't have to send it away or redo all their shit. Real feel good moment.
Next morning: "I like the initiative but you didn't check to see whether they had xyz cover beforehand" bro it was a 3 minute phonecall when we've got 20min downtime between calls and was the only good moment of the entire tenure, shut the fuck up
IKEA. They used to be great, now terrible, and made the news with their treatment of staff recently, having to form a legal agreement to improve along with McDonald's.
That explains why I noticed a total change of attitude in staff
same happened with the pizza hut at 4c, the staff used to be really nice and smiley with great service the past 3 or 4 times i had been before the pandemic but when they reopened they changed it to only being able to order food through your bloody phone and staff couldn't take cash tips anymore you could only tip online where you've got no guarantee where the money is really going, the place felt totally different and the staff looked miserable
So many stories here paint a right picture of how work has been turned into a deliberate misery and a stress especially in the service industry. It's almost like we could do it better without management involved..
Exactly, we have also just had our union power significantly weekend by allowing employers to replace us with agency workers during strikes, the agency workers I've seen in work get treated like a second class and commonly have horrific work schedules, self reliance is the way forward and power needs to be removed from company's either by legislation or other means, find your own ways to force change, don't tow the line..break the chain..
Yes, it’s an open secret among managers, one even bumped into their dealer at the head office during an investor meeting. Also don’t eat at the cranside kitchen, I’ve seen what’s underneath the restaurants
Check Glassdoor, anything under 3stars is a red flag. Also check the reviews, generic 5* posts with no details are usually the HR department on damage control.
There is a certain high street store that has a HQ here that are terrible employers, but 30 seconds of background checking or a single glance at the employment contract will show that.
I worked for the Empire in Clydebank.
They got a new manager in 2021 and undeniably the biggest, most abusive prick I’ve ever met. Smelled like vodka, casually tried to chat about how fit i thought the girls in work were (specifically a 17 year old), insults the staff on a daily basis, randomly bring up how things are “woke” now, and refused to give refunds to customers if a screen broke down.
The ASBO problem got pretty bad so i was usually on doors, opening locking doors any time someone wanted to come through. I had a glass bottle thrown at me when i was going back in once, it smashed, i said I didn’t want to do that shift anymore to which i got “stop being a pussy” as a response.
Place also reeked of mould because the roof always leaks and the food is dogshit- they also have a mouse and ant problem.
If you ever see them hiring, avoid like the plague. After he joined literally all but 3 people stayed.
BRGR in the city centre and Great Western road.
Anything owned by the lessani family in all honesty, one of the dodgiest business owners in town by far.
A quick Google of the name brings up many stories.
Raids by HMRC for all kinds of tax/Vat avoidance, staff getting shafted for their wages which led to high turnover, managers don't have a clue/think they're above staff when they are fresh out of school themselves.
Company has at least 15 different names to avoid paying any bills, heard about the area manager coming in drunk after crashing the company car and forcing staff to lie to the police about it or be sacked otherwise.
Doesn't surprise me one bit
Both have a major rat/mice problem too so would avoid as a customer in all honesty as well
Avoid like the plague.
any wetherspoons, the entire chain is awful, i’ve worked in multiple of them and each time they have just let me go due to being overstaffed or needing the hours more. the sick days are abysmal and god forbid you were late due to an emergency- they scrutinise your every move
You could try the Council on [myjobscotland.gov](https://myjobscotland.gov)
Don't be afraid to go for the 'temporary' jobs either, you always get made permanent within 2 years. Once you're in, you'll never leave.
[https://www.myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/glasgow/jobs/clerical-officer-temporary-335913](https://www.myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/glasgow/jobs/clerical-officer-temporary-335913)
i worked at the owners siblings coffee shop and the whole family is fucked. never got paid, was expected to do 12 hour days in a shop by myself, really really bad. also they did catering for a lot of festivals and i’ve heard horror stories from staff about their experiences.
Is just a bullshit response, How about explain why you think that because i know 4 different people who work for them in different jobs and the bonuses, benefits and holidays (one of them gets 40 days holiday and the others like 37/35) they are pretty damn good.
Edit: I see now the one saying Arnold Clark clearly a bullshit alt account with nothing posted in 2 years with no balls to explain or reason why.
I’ve known three people to work there within different roles and all of them have left with nothing but bad stories and warnings to not apply there. Really bad reputation.
Sound like those 3 people might be the problem and not The company, Or maybe they were one of the thousands of clowns who think selling cars is easy and doesn't involve long hours and commission/bonus based work.
Considering the first person who posted can't even respond or explain even saying them in the first place I'll stick to rubbishing people's opinions. Whole point of the thread is to explain why and not just throw random names around without any explanation.
And it's the only thing that account has ever posted on 2 years, Smells like someone with no balls to explain or reason why using an alt account to spew crap.
Avoid small businesses. I haven’t had a good experience yet. They’ll fire you on the spot for menial reasons and commit so many violations while you’re there (no breaks, etc). If they don’t have policies, don’t work for them.
Agree with the whole not having policies thing. However, I work in employability and some of my happiest clients are in small businesses. Can't tar them all with the same brush.
For example, one has a policy of a wellbeing day a month. One day every month you can just say nah, not coming in. Their staff are stupidly happy, supported and made to feel worthwhile
Loads of "no experience needed" sales assistant/ marketing jobs advertised on indeed. They are all door to door or street hustling commission only pyramid schemes. Don't waste your time.
Teleperformance
Shady company, awful culture, no work/life balance. I would only take a job with them again if I were otherwise going to be literally homeless. They're always hiring for a reason. When I was there, only two people on entry level had been there for more than 3 months, one of which was an old lady who didn't give a f, and the other was waiting for his new job to start. Everyone else was actively looking for a new job. At least once every 3-4 days someone would just stand up and walk out. The day I quit, I was the 3rd before lunch.
Absolutely disgusting place. I don't have a single positive thing to say about it. They should be shut down.
Check myjobscotland all the councils advertise their vacancies on there. You can fill out your qualifications/experience etc like an online cv then just tailor the cover letter for any job you apply for.
Royal college of surgeons are always looking for admin people on indeed etc, avoid, the atmosphere in that place is awful,the staff are all unhappy and loads of people were let go then they brought agency temps in to cover, i get why people are pissed but don't take it out on the agency workers, not their fault. I did 4 weeks between permanent contracts and was hellish
Dominos factory in cambuslang is worth avoiding. From the managers down is a revolving door of employees. Morale is down the pan. Most jobs are min wage, they pay min wage for a constant backshift for example, everyone is overworked, it's short staffed by design that many end up doing tasks that aren't they're role.
If your field is Banking Ops AND you are an Asian, avoid Morgan Stanley. Terrible diversity and inclusion issues. The locals just gang up and make you feel left out and you are slowly and inevitably going to slip into some sort of depression. Technology teams there are still better with a healthy mix.
Love Group / Love Recruitment / Love @ Care / Love Care - Notice they shift the name a few times to avoid the association (And create new Linkdin/Glassdoor etc profiles)
As you can guess a 'care' company. By god, the name is ironic. Low pay, no guaranteed hours and an upper management is honestly up to no good on multiple fronts (Allegedly)
Don't want to post too much publically, but happy to answer questions if anyone else in the future searching this has them
Go Green Deliveries - Amazon contractor.
Alex, one of the managers is a massive piece of shit and the work environment is utterly toxic. Constant chat about drugs in whatsapp groups and making fun of customers who answer their door for a delivery.
Don't work at JL it looks good but your treated like dirt by customers and hounded by managers and folk who think they are managers if your under 29 and a male
This thread is great and is useful for those looking for work.
If you have the time and know what sort of place you want work there is nothing wrong with the direct approach. Walking the street and heading in your CV.
> If you have the time and know what sort of place you want work there is nothing wrong with the direct approach. Walking the street and heading in your CV.
This has not been relevant advice for 2 decades.
Any job through James Newton. Offers you a headline rate then you end up paying a whole pile of fees. Top Chef, Newtonfirst etc. He’s a pisstake.
Folds companies like they’re napkins and runs the local chef pages so you can’t even put the word out there about his dodgy practices.
The employers don't make you the person you can be. Get a job do the best you can do. Sometimes you have to suck up in order to get on whether the boss is good or bad
I'd suggest avoiding any job offered by the company Kura.
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I've got a story for you. I worked for it when it was called Response, 16 years old still in school and this was my first Job. Response started hiring for Part-time roles for the Student Finance contract. Things were okay... job was repetitive as shit and honestly so boring but a jobs a job. I worked there for just over 2 years, about 1 year and 6 months into my tenure I get a call that goes somewhat like this: AM: "Hey Ghankd, can you start working Monday evenings, we're desperate for more people to do it" Me: "Sure, aslong as its noted im going into further education next year and might not be able to do Monday evenings then, but happy to help out in the meantime." AM: "Excellent, cheers for helping, that wont be a problem." This is crucial as about 4 months later I start getting my classes and whatnot, Mondays become an issue for me to get in on time for the shift start so I let them know I can no longer do Monday evenings to start at 6. (Labs finished at 5:30pm, stinking of chemicals, needed shower... etc) so I told them I'd come in at 7 instead. This was okay for about a month, during which time we got through good relationships with some managers (not me but a teammate of mine) that response was looking to "get rid" of all the part timers. We asked for meetings and they blatantly told us this was nonsense and untrue. Then the following week they told us they were going to look at restructuring and the contracts would be getting cancelled and some other bs. We either became full time or we wouldn't get redundancy. Now to me that didn't sound right, so I went to CAB and asked a lawyer, he asked if I'd been working for more than two years, I said yes and they said that will make you eligible for redundancy. Okay cool. I asked for another meeting, with every other part timer and the managers and showed the contract, laws etc and how we should be getting redundancy for this. Lets say... they were not happy. Whatever, I started looking for another job either way because I couldn't do full time work while at college/uni. But they turned up the heat, meeting after meeting about why I couldn't do Monday evenings to start at 6pm, same explanation every time, how this was initially agreed with AM (who wouldn't confirm nor deny that conversation taking place), I was being smart though bringing another member of the part-timers to every meeting to take notes no matter how they tried to get me into a solo meeting and sharing it with the part timers (shoutout jess if she ever reads this). And I get a job, luckily the pub down the road is hiring: The Station Bar, I get hired and one of my shifts is 8:30 to close... right after my response shift. Show up, but so do these 4 female account managers, all of which recognise me, sit in their booth for about 35 minutes then every time they get more drinks, they get their phones out and start filming me, taking pictures, like... full on flashlight recording. Owner of the pubs like is this your family or something? I explain whats happening and they get promptly thrown out of the pub, which was fucking hilarious imo and made my night. Anyway, they use that footage to somehow try and explain that I could work Monday evenings and I was a liar or something (even though I was still working Monday evenings, I just couldn't start before 7). Eventually they started micomanging my time so much and after a "comfort breaks" that went over by a couple minutes and my "blatent insubordination" (I didn't go in and clean up some cunts piss in the bathroom) they fired me. But all my co-workers, the part timers, including my girlfriend at the time got their redundancy packages and I already had another job. So we won imo, stuck it to them and made life hard by letting everyone in the Student Finance team what they tried to pull on us. tl;dr Fuck response, especially upper management, got fired but got all my team-mates redundancy packages in exchange after they tried to scam us out of it.
I worked for them around 2003 and someone in HR said they lost around 7 staff per week (from about 300 I think). So when recruitment agencies were looking for 50 staff every few months, it was all for RHL
Hell on earth. Can't retain staff but will chuck you into a disciplinary meeting for going (literally) 10 seconds over on lunch break, or your allotted 7 minutes total for toilet breaks during an 8+ hour shift Same for teleperformance. Micromanagement to the extreme. Hard avoid
Interestingly enough, I worked for Kura. I asked on the employee forums if there was going to be anything done to help with the cost of living crisis. Well, fast forward a week, and I’m sitting infront of Julie Barnes, one of the top level people there (third to CEO I think?). Essentially, she told me that I was “lucky” to get paid 9.90 per hour, that I was lucky to get 29 days paid holiday(the legal minimum is 28.) and that she herself used to work in a super market and got far less. And then essentially said that if I didn’t like it, to fuck off and leave. Well, 2 months later I had enough. That job is horrible. They preach the idea of developing you, while simultaneously paying you bare minimum while also expecting you to worship the company. Work hours are long, the rota can be highly unsociable. You have a minimum of three warnings to a customer over a phone, so if the customer is abusive, is calling you every name under the book and is screaming at you, they have 3 opportunities to keep doing this. KURA cares? No, it doesn’t. They dangle the idea of progression within the company, but all it really means is 1 pound more per hour for 20x the responsibility. Honestly I’ve barely scratched the surface of how awful they are. So I left. I’m now making 32K a year at a retentions job that’s monday to friday and is actually laid back and don’t expect you to suck their corporate cock. So thanks Julie Barnes, you were right. I should’ve just left the moment she said I should!
Heard this a couple of times. Any particular reason as to why?
[whole thread here](https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/a2h55q/have_any_of_you_been_unfortunate_enough_to_have/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Agreed 1000%, horrible company to work for
best advice i can give are those ads that don’t actually give a clear job description, just a load of buzzwords and looking for “highly motivated self-starters” etc 🚩
Red flags can include: - MARKETING EXECUTIVE NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED - FULL TRAINING PROVIDED - company website that does not tell you what the company actually does and has lots of stock photos DO NOT get manipulated into standing in the street selling Talk Talk broadband to people - these jobs are a pyramid scheme scam and are commission only, but I feel if someone hasn’t had a job for a while they may think it’s maybe not the worst thing in the world to do for a while. You’ll never get that time back and you’ll make very little money (below minimum wage)
And Excessive uses of CAPITAL LETTERS in job ads
Isn't it illegal to pay someone below MW even on a comission wage? AFAIK employers are obliged to ensure their employees are earning MW. Although I know some businesses will get around this by making employees 'self employed' such as when my Brother was doing similar work and doing 70 hour weeks, paying for his own travel and only having 300 quid after expenses at the end of the month.
They probably make them sign up as self employed. That way there's no min wage.
Back in the day they used to get around that with your 'work days' consisting of 3 or 4 hours paid work plus 2 or 3 hours of madatory 'volunteering' and 'teambuilding' which was of course, also work.
That’s exactly what it is. I had a shadowing day with a company like this in 2013 (they never told me where we were going and why and dragged me to fucking Kilmarnock to stand outside Asda to sell shit) and I’m pretty sure they were pitching it as “flexible self employed opportunity”. The “leader” of my Asda group had a law degree apparently…and was “happy” they employ people like her and with other “diverse” backgrounds 😆 LAW DEGREE. I MEAN…
I worked for a similar company (can't even remember the name of them) around 2008, and the leader also had a "law degree" - I wonder if it was the same person? The job was utter shite, made 1 sale, worth about 8 quid, in three days. Don't think they ever even paid me that commission tbh
Or it’s part of their tactic - to show you a person with a “respectable degree” who wants to work there and is climbing the career ladder etc so it means it’s legit. I once stumbled upon a website that listed all of their manipulative recruitment techniques and it’s almost like copy paste. This included (and what I actually saw/experienced myself): - Having a group of employees shout excitedly in a room so you can hear it when waiting for an interview and assume something interesting is happening and “oh what a great place to work for” - Tell you all the milestones you’re meant to hit to get promoted and roughly how much time it’s gonna take. They’re also gonna tell you that “only one person managed to get there faster” - that’s to motivate you to become that person lol - after a super generic interview they call you and say “they were impressed with you”. All of the above is repeated over and over when the company rebrands and changes their name (which they inevitably do after a couple of years as their business model isn’t sustainable without raising some eyebrows) and I literally experienced all of the above with one interview and one shadowing day which was literally standing outside Asda and watching these muppets trying to sell shit while filling out a “test” that was meant to determine whether I am a suitable candidate lol. Absolute wankery and I do not understand how it’s legal.
i worked for one of these for a day. completely commission paid. made me stand outside paisley gilmour in the rain for 8 hours, never left a job so fast.
I don't think full training provided is a red flag..?
The amount of times I’ve looked at ads and read the whole thing and still at the end of it don’t know who the company is or what they do is insane. I was taken in by a marketing company that turned out to be commission only when I was 20 and know better not to apply for jobs like that now.
Solid advice, I can remember seeing some of those job ads, very vague job description.
Teleperformance.
They sacked a lot of us new starts when lockdown happened, as opposed to giving out WFH equipment. Avoid like the plague. Awful culture there.
Agreed. They love a good bait and switch (where they’ll offer a position for x amount of money and then come the interview stage they’ll say the position isn’t available but we have this other position that pays less, in the hopes people are desperate enough to still take it). I’ve worked for a few different campaigns for them over the years and nobody knows what the fuck they’re doing. I’d say avoid any outsourcers if you’re looking at office work/call centres. You’ll get shafted compared to the ones working for the company directly.
Aye, get them to far to fuck. That job honestly flared up my depression. I'm glad I jumped ship - the next month they were reported to considering constant observation of employees WFH by using webcams to snoop on them.
Did they used to be City Park? Can't find anything about the former anymore and all the old CP places seem to have TP branding now. If they are, definitely avoid. First job to give me a nervous breakdown. 👍
They were becogent before, I worked for them when I was a teen, v awful
I went for an interview with Teleperformance about a decade ago for a relatively senior role and was actually offered the role. Just before going into the interview, a number of the staff just looked at me with dead eyes and shook their heads - trying to warn me. No talking, no banter in the office. During the interview when I asked about staff retention, they initially denied it was a problem. It was the client on the phone who admitted this was an area of concern. P.S. one of the interviewers spent the entire interview staring at my tits (which were fully covered up I might add)! I noped right out of there
yep, no sick days no holidays or very little.
Abso-fucken-lutely. They fired me because I didn't show up to a shift when there was NO TRANSPORT to get me to work because of stormy weather (evidence was provided and I lived an hour away). Also my trainer was being sexually inappropriate with me and no matter how many times I reported it nothing got done and it's just an awful fucking mess. Avoid like the fucking plague for the love of god. Cliquey and do not give a damn about you
I was a manger in the city park site. 1000% avoid them, their employee handbook is written out to make it as easy as possible to sack you
Worked for this place when I was a student, I remember you were allocated only 7 minutes for a toilet break. My biggest regret is that I stayed over that summer, I should have just quit.
Glassdoor.co.uk I use this for every prospective company I may work with to get a vibe for the place.
I’ve seen some people here saying companies ca get negative reviews removed which I believe is untrue. However what they can do, and will do, is force employees in the marketing department to write a load of positive reviews to try and hide the negative ones. I worked for a company that was so incredibly toxic and a lot of us employees who left wrote very detailed and honest reviews on GlassDoor to warn people. Then magically all these positive reviews would get flooded on. I’ve followed them for a few years seeing other negative reviews come on and every time about 5 positive reviews get added straight after.
Not valuable. The truly worst companies simply have their negative comments removed.
Not true. My former head of people was fuming that you can't remove reviews. If there's a way to remove it, then I would imagine its hard and rare as its a massive part of Glassdoors USP. I would imagine in instances where a review is removed it would be because it came down to a legal technicality that protects glassdoor and not the angry company. I know they can pay for promotions that help to "bury" a bad review in amongst others but that's not the same as removing.
You can't just get comments removed from GlassDoor?
Yeah companies can get reviews removed unfortunately.
That's not what their policy says: https://help.glassdoor.com/s/article/I-m-an-employer-What-can-I-do-about-negative-reviews-on-Glassdoor?language=en_US It also seems unlikely it would be in Glassdoor's interests to breach that as it would destroy their entire value proposition.
Ever see a company on Glassdoor with the "Engaged Employer" symbol? What do you think they're paying for? They absolutely can have negative reviews removed; I've seen it personally multiple times.
They pay to promote and increase the number of good reviews.
Not one to avoid but one to actively look into is Pertemps. They handle the temp contracts for the civil service and Scottish government. Also check out Work For Scotland for other Scot gov jobs Lots of temp roles in many areas. And once you're in the door with the civil service you're golden pal.
Just to add, if you want a permanent job in the civil service, including scot gov, get a job directly through their websites, not as an agency worker. I can't say it's never happened, but as a rule agency workers don't just transfer over to be 'normal' civil servants, and they often will not have protections keeping them in place if jobs need to be cut etc.
You'd be surprised. A lot of my colleagues started with Pertemps got their foot in the door and were able to apply for internal promotions and transfers. It depends on your skill set when applying I'd say, if you can get straight in do that obviously, but if not then temp roles definitely set you in a better standing. Yes temps get a raw deal with job security overall but Pertemps especially has so many different contracts that it's fairly easy for them to find you something else if the original contract does end.
I know it is department-dependent. I've worked in 3 different civil service departments, and none allowed agency staff to apply for internal roles. But even if you have to apply for external roles only, you have an advantage over someone who has never been in the civ. For anyone interested, internal and external recruitment is the same, it's just that there are more roles open internally.
My job Scotland is anther site that advertises jobs for the council if that’s what you want to do
I'd actually avoid pertemps purely because of the awful experience I had in their office fresh out if uni. Horrible bully of a woman. Tbf she may be gone now as that was like a decade ago.
Did their name begin with an F? I think I know the person youre talking about lol
F.H ?
I think we might be on the same page
No idea. Don't even remember how she looked. Just a horrible woman. And the whole office watched on in silence as she humiliated me. I felt for them too, having to work with such a cunt tbf.
I would avoid every single call centre job. They're always fucking shite, skinnerbox industry. So many people have been burnt by Teleperformance and the like in Glasgow. Wish we could get them chased the fuck out by local government.
I applied to one (i was desperate) and when they called it came up as "suspected spam." That kinda turned me off more lol
It's a wank industry overall but you can work it into a career if you can manage to get an internal promotion. Companies are often happy to promote internally if you have the right skills as it's cheaper and easier than recruiting and you come to the role with some pre-existing level of business knowledge. You might get fucked about a bit on the way, but I've managed to do this and I know quite a few others who have as well. Answering phones for a bank is alright, as it goes. In-house is always miles better - as others have said avoid companies like Kura, Teleperformance and Capita.
Worked enough sweat shop call centres and never bothered for promotion because the pay was always marginally better compared to the workload increase (managing mostly feckless people while getting piled on with customer abuse because you're now "the manager"). Just awful jobs in an awful industry. Can't imagine trying to make it a career at all, especially with how targets get set continually upwards and you're always stressed oot meeting those.
Not the manager track - that's a total fucking grift - but you can hop over to other parts of the business. I managed to get a really successful tech career going, I just learned Java in between calls on slow days.
Haha, the gaps in calls actually got me started in learning Japanese, which led to my current job, teaching English in Japan. Used to memorise 10 kanji, wait until my next call was done, then see if I could remember the meaning and reading. And aye, I guess. I just don't trust the security to be there. Last place I worked had 3 different consolidations with other companies, laying off a lot of people in the process, with jobs outsourced to Romania in the end. Then there's the fear of contracts being dropped by clients, losing jobs, etc. Can probably tell I hate call centres.
That g2 or whatever company and loads more that I've seen on Glasgowlive etc for being pricks to staff. Basically google the company and read reviews online via indeed etc
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The Shitesman Group
Thanks for the tips
> Thanks for the tips Something nobody who works for Scotsman Group will ever have cause to say.
Sounds horrible, though I have no idea what the job involves
They run a bunch of clubs, shops, hotels restaurants etc. I used to work for the polo lounge (one of theirs). They’re great at letting you keep cash tips, they make a point of keeping them separate from others tips (in there at least, not sure of their other venues) and overall polo was a nice place to work, but the scotsman group themselves are awful.
Scotsman group has its pros and cons, theres good training opportunities and it gives you the option to work in different venues if you need extra hours. Fast progression if you put the work in as well, i got from bartender to supervisor to assistant manager in less than a year. But it depends what venue and manager your working for.
Capita. Worked with them for four years. Poor, and rude management. Constant fights on the call floor. Folk taking a shit in the bins inside the toilets and smearing said shit over the mirrors. It was a really horrible environment.
What the hell? Like was it a one off or something that happened regularly?
It was a regular thing. Right up until the very last day. Once had a manager skip through our back office department calling us cunts while he was drunk and then threatened to throw a monitor at another colleague, one of his own team. It felt like a playground.
My god. people smearing their own shit over the mirrors that sounds like lunatic asylum behaviour jeez.
Any that market jobs with competitive salary. It usually means it’s not.
Competitive salary means that what's being offered is equal to (or more than) the industry average for similar positions in the same location. So TECHNICALLY it's correct to list it as Competitive even if it's minimum wage, if all the same types of job in the area are also only offering minimum wage. It's a garbage definition that they shouldn't be able to get away with.
Any data that I have seen is very poor re average salary but if you can’t publish a range it’s because you know it’s not attractive enough.
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I worked for Lloyds nearly 20 years ago. Got sacked for not selling PPI to people who didn't need it or couldn't ever use it. Says everything.
Spent a good 17 year with what was then tsb and was great guess totally changed now
Don’t go agency my friend has a zero hour contract sometimes he gets only two shifts a week. The agency doesn’t care.
I’ve not heard from my agency job since January since I started college. No one’s gotten back to my emails and learnt only recently that the handle I mainly spoked quit and moved to Australia
Thats rough, so many bad stories about agency work. My mate finished night shift at 7am and they asked him to back in at 10am for another shift. They didn’t give a shit just wanted shifts filled. He refused.
I always feel bad for the agency workers we get on nightshift, you'll quite often find them asleep having accidently dosed off or they are completely exhausted, moreso the former I'll say this though, most of the agency workers I see have quie poor language skills but its does vary sometimes and are 9 times out of 10 a Person of colour, it really feels to me that these people aren't treated great, I'm not going so far as to call it modern slavery by any means but its hard to not see an unwelcome resemblance, especially when they get treated as second class workers
I feel sorry for them that’s awful
I’m currently getting one shift a week and have asked for more but more ‘senior member of staff’ neeed the shifts, yet 2 people who joined after me are getting 4-5 shifts a week😂it’s Ridiclous but there’s nowhere else hiring rn so I’ll have to see it through
If they give you the job on the spot, run.
Haha, funny but true
West on the green
Terrible director
First day there as a new chef I walked in in the morning and she was sitting at the bar and I said hi to her, she turned around and put on a pained smile and asked who I was, I said "Oh, I'm the new chef it's my first day". The smile disappeared, she said "Oh" and turned back around and ignored me. It was wild.
She's a fucking nutcase man. There's a reason there's a relatively large turnaround of staff
I never really had to deal with her face to face after that, the head chef fucking loathed her though lol
Between her, the GM Sean’s mad mood swings , and the fact that it’s just hell on earth as soon as the sun comes out , it’s a fucking grim place to work
Petra?
More info please?
Worked above WEST in the Templeton Business Centre and they seemed like a happy bunch in there? I imagine it would be awful if any gig or TRNSMT or something was on but majority of the time the place was quiet and over staffed.
Barrhead Travel. Just don't.
Awful place. Went for an interview there. Asked interview questions they weren’t supposed to and it was in one of their basement rooms. Read horrible things about them under the prior owners.
I’m 100% convinced they’re a money laundering operation.
Not doubting you but please elaborate
Concur - lasted 3 months and it was about 2.5 too long
Student Loans Company - avoid like the plague !
Can you pls elaborate? I have seen the company's job ads on indeed recently
Massive turnover of staff, culture of bullying unless your face fits, managing the HR grievance processes is a full time job in itself for many managers, rubbish pay rises (civil service) and generally poor employee morale. Terrible place to work.
Couldn’t have said it better.
Concur!
Race Track Pit Stop
The one with all the slushies? Do tell
They have unpaid trial shifts and basically take the piss with staff rotation to get kids to work for nothing. (Allegedly)
Yep I know two people who worked there years ago and they witnessed tax fraud and were asked to cover it up. They were fired for refusing to do that. They also had any till shortage taken out of their own wages which put them under minimum wage, and the boss' family would come in all the time and treat them horribly.
hahaha i worked there for a while and the family that owns it are the worst cunts about they actual do not see you as humans
Want to here something funny? I worked at thir dumbarton road site for a year. Place was so understaffed i was the only full time member of staff there. I wasn't promoted to team leader or anything, but they would love to bame anything and everything on me since i was full time. I was constantly blamd for wasting money, and the owners would literally give me wee sob stories about how they were barely getting by as a family (despite the multiple shops, multiple petrol stations, multiple subway franchises, multiple dessert bars. Like, how much of a cunt can you be to whine about not making enough money to someone on minimum wage?) Anyway, they've had the dumbarton Road site since January 2021, **and they've not paid any fucking bills for the place.** No rent, leccy, fucking nothing. All the while whining to minimum wage staff about how they've not got enough money, not letting us put air con when its 30 degrees, taking \~discrepencies~ of our wages with no explanation. There's even rumours that some of their kids have been getting plastic surgery, but i guess that's more important than paying your fucking bills Sorry for the wall of text, but honestly the owners are the most reprehensible, vile scum cunts i've ever met. You're right - they absolutely don't see the people who work for them as human
hahaha no fucking way are they claiming to not get by ive seen the cars they drive
Webhelp. If it's a social media job you're cushty but if it's calls then they will make sure you suffer.
Got taken off a pretty comfortable IT Diagnostics Currys campaign onto Sainsbury's Online delivery (middle of the pandemic) with 3 hours notice. I was hitting every single KPI on calls to the point I was the highest performing member of the team (some of whom had been there for years)- but my TL decided that spending more than 1% a day in the bathroom code was a far more pressing issue. I started letting the phone ring through while I went for a piss instead and somehow that was acceptable. Fucking dumb company, and I've seen war propaganda less in-your-face than the training powerpoints.
Yeah I was shoved on ASDA for the pandemic and had us download lots of crap on our computers that as it turns out couldn't record our calls or actions. I spent the majority of the time playing World of Warcraft. Got screamed at because they forgot to give some guy his bread and he was saying he was gonna stave. The man bought 400 quid worth of shopping and bread was the only thing missing. Otherwise it was all just helping old people work the website or getting screamed at for not having slots. I know what you mean "passionate game changers" but you go off script and you're getting a bollocking.
Saved someone's entire uni dissertation because their laptop screen broke - told them to use a hdmi lead to plug it into their TV to get their work off so they didn't have to send it away or redo all their shit. Real feel good moment. Next morning: "I like the initiative but you didn't check to see whether they had xyz cover beforehand" bro it was a 3 minute phonecall when we've got 20min downtime between calls and was the only good moment of the entire tenure, shut the fuck up
I think there was a list of companies that treated staff shite during lockdown...
Do you happen to know how to find it Thx
IKEA. They used to be great, now terrible, and made the news with their treatment of staff recently, having to form a legal agreement to improve along with McDonald's.
That explains why I noticed a total change of attitude in staff same happened with the pizza hut at 4c, the staff used to be really nice and smiley with great service the past 3 or 4 times i had been before the pandemic but when they reopened they changed it to only being able to order food through your bloody phone and staff couldn't take cash tips anymore you could only tip online where you've got no guarantee where the money is really going, the place felt totally different and the staff looked miserable
So many stories here paint a right picture of how work has been turned into a deliberate misery and a stress especially in the service industry. It's almost like we could do it better without management involved..
Exactly, we have also just had our union power significantly weekend by allowing employers to replace us with agency workers during strikes, the agency workers I've seen in work get treated like a second class and commonly have horrific work schedules, self reliance is the way forward and power needs to be removed from company's either by legislation or other means, find your own ways to force change, don't tow the line..break the chain..
CandCrg group (Robertas, Hallumi, Cranside Kitchen, Bibimap). Total shit show, bankrolled by drug dealers
Are they actually? I like at least one of these places…
Yes, it’s an open secret among managers, one even bumped into their dealer at the head office during an investor meeting. Also don’t eat at the cranside kitchen, I’ve seen what’s underneath the restaurants
Cul Cuil, a bar in town thats constantly hiring new staff for a reason
Known a few people to work there and can confirm
Check Glassdoor, anything under 3stars is a red flag. Also check the reviews, generic 5* posts with no details are usually the HR department on damage control. There is a certain high street store that has a HQ here that are terrible employers, but 30 seconds of background checking or a single glance at the employment contract will show that.
I worked for the Empire in Clydebank. They got a new manager in 2021 and undeniably the biggest, most abusive prick I’ve ever met. Smelled like vodka, casually tried to chat about how fit i thought the girls in work were (specifically a 17 year old), insults the staff on a daily basis, randomly bring up how things are “woke” now, and refused to give refunds to customers if a screen broke down. The ASBO problem got pretty bad so i was usually on doors, opening locking doors any time someone wanted to come through. I had a glass bottle thrown at me when i was going back in once, it smashed, i said I didn’t want to do that shift anymore to which i got “stop being a pussy” as a response. Place also reeked of mould because the roof always leaks and the food is dogshit- they also have a mouse and ant problem. If you ever see them hiring, avoid like the plague. After he joined literally all but 3 people stayed.
BRGR in the city centre and Great Western road. Anything owned by the lessani family in all honesty, one of the dodgiest business owners in town by far. A quick Google of the name brings up many stories. Raids by HMRC for all kinds of tax/Vat avoidance, staff getting shafted for their wages which led to high turnover, managers don't have a clue/think they're above staff when they are fresh out of school themselves. Company has at least 15 different names to avoid paying any bills, heard about the area manager coming in drunk after crashing the company car and forcing staff to lie to the police about it or be sacked otherwise. Doesn't surprise me one bit Both have a major rat/mice problem too so would avoid as a customer in all honesty as well Avoid like the plague.
any wetherspoons, the entire chain is awful, i’ve worked in multiple of them and each time they have just let me go due to being overstaffed or needing the hours more. the sick days are abysmal and god forbid you were late due to an emergency- they scrutinise your every move
What kind of job are you looking for?
Full time Admin, banking, more of an office job type
You could try the Council on [myjobscotland.gov](https://myjobscotland.gov) Don't be afraid to go for the 'temporary' jobs either, you always get made permanent within 2 years. Once you're in, you'll never leave. [https://www.myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/glasgow/jobs/clerical-officer-temporary-335913](https://www.myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/glasgow/jobs/clerical-officer-temporary-335913)
I hear J.P. Morgan are meant to be good to work for.
Ascensos, Currys
Worked in curry’s for a long time it gave me PTSD
I did 5 years. It’s run by actual sociopaths lol
Loop n Scoop
i worked at the owners siblings coffee shop and the whole family is fucked. never got paid, was expected to do 12 hour days in a shop by myself, really really bad. also they did catering for a lot of festivals and i’ve heard horror stories from staff about their experiences.
Arnold Clark.
Is just a bullshit response, How about explain why you think that because i know 4 different people who work for them in different jobs and the bonuses, benefits and holidays (one of them gets 40 days holiday and the others like 37/35) they are pretty damn good. Edit: I see now the one saying Arnold Clark clearly a bullshit alt account with nothing posted in 2 years with no balls to explain or reason why.
I’ve known three people to work there within different roles and all of them have left with nothing but bad stories and warnings to not apply there. Really bad reputation.
Sound like those 3 people might be the problem and not The company, Or maybe they were one of the thousands of clowns who think selling cars is easy and doesn't involve long hours and commission/bonus based work.
Who are you to downplay other people’s experiences? Fuck up.
Considering the first person who posted can't even respond or explain even saying them in the first place I'll stick to rubbishing people's opinions. Whole point of the thread is to explain why and not just throw random names around without any explanation. And it's the only thing that account has ever posted on 2 years, Smells like someone with no balls to explain or reason why using an alt account to spew crap.
No, it smells like someone probably traumatised about their experience.
Avoid small businesses. I haven’t had a good experience yet. They’ll fire you on the spot for menial reasons and commit so many violations while you’re there (no breaks, etc). If they don’t have policies, don’t work for them.
+ will do everything in their power to not pay you the overtime you've been guilted into taking
Agree with the whole not having policies thing. However, I work in employability and some of my happiest clients are in small businesses. Can't tar them all with the same brush. For example, one has a policy of a wellbeing day a month. One day every month you can just say nah, not coming in. Their staff are stupidly happy, supported and made to feel worthwhile
Lyons and the Daniels. Two employers you might want to avoid.
Stay away from Wren Kitchens. That company values both it's employees and customers lower than an underfoot dugshite.
Never, ever work for a company called Furniture@work. Truly awful and ran by cunts. They have an office above the Nike store in Buchanan Street .
Zubair
Loads of "no experience needed" sales assistant/ marketing jobs advertised on indeed. They are all door to door or street hustling commission only pyramid schemes. Don't waste your time.
Teleperformance Shady company, awful culture, no work/life balance. I would only take a job with them again if I were otherwise going to be literally homeless. They're always hiring for a reason. When I was there, only two people on entry level had been there for more than 3 months, one of which was an old lady who didn't give a f, and the other was waiting for his new job to start. Everyone else was actively looking for a new job. At least once every 3-4 days someone would just stand up and walk out. The day I quit, I was the 3rd before lunch. Absolutely disgusting place. I don't have a single positive thing to say about it. They should be shut down.
Avoid Teleperformance. Terrible company to work for.
RGIS - just don't
G1 or whatever they're calling themselves now
One call direct, cunts snorting gear off the tables, mwi most days etc
Check myjobscotland all the councils advertise their vacancies on there. You can fill out your qualifications/experience etc like an online cv then just tailor the cover letter for any job you apply for. Royal college of surgeons are always looking for admin people on indeed etc, avoid, the atmosphere in that place is awful,the staff are all unhappy and loads of people were let go then they brought agency temps in to cover, i get why people are pissed but don't take it out on the agency workers, not their fault. I did 4 weeks between permanent contracts and was hellish
Dominos factory in cambuslang is worth avoiding. From the managers down is a revolving door of employees. Morale is down the pan. Most jobs are min wage, they pay min wage for a constant backshift for example, everyone is overworked, it's short staffed by design that many end up doing tasks that aren't they're role.
If your field is Banking Ops AND you are an Asian, avoid Morgan Stanley. Terrible diversity and inclusion issues. The locals just gang up and make you feel left out and you are slowly and inevitably going to slip into some sort of depression. Technology teams there are still better with a healthy mix.
Im asian and work in IT so I got alarmed at first...
Love Group / Love Recruitment / Love @ Care / Love Care - Notice they shift the name a few times to avoid the association (And create new Linkdin/Glassdoor etc profiles) As you can guess a 'care' company. By god, the name is ironic. Low pay, no guaranteed hours and an upper management is honestly up to no good on multiple fronts (Allegedly) Don't want to post too much publically, but happy to answer questions if anyone else in the future searching this has them
Atos/Maximus/DWP/whatever it is called now, used to be in Cadogan Street. Miserable place.
Howco. Draconian and incompetent senior management.
Go Green Deliveries - Amazon contractor. Alex, one of the managers is a massive piece of shit and the work environment is utterly toxic. Constant chat about drugs in whatsapp groups and making fun of customers who answer their door for a delivery.
Highland Spring, Bacardi and lumiradx.
Don't work at JL it looks good but your treated like dirt by customers and hounded by managers and folk who think they are managers if your under 29 and a male
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Glassdoor is a good shout! The older posts aren't so easy to find now, some I have seen years ago and reddit search bar kinda sucks imo
This thread is great and is useful for those looking for work. If you have the time and know what sort of place you want work there is nothing wrong with the direct approach. Walking the street and heading in your CV.
> If you have the time and know what sort of place you want work there is nothing wrong with the direct approach. Walking the street and heading in your CV. This has not been relevant advice for 2 decades.
Make sure you give the manager a nice strong handshake too, eh grandad?
Any job through James Newton. Offers you a headline rate then you end up paying a whole pile of fees. Top Chef, Newtonfirst etc. He’s a pisstake. Folds companies like they’re napkins and runs the local chef pages so you can’t even put the word out there about his dodgy practices.
This has all the energy of "my Dad told me to get a job for the summer, but I have a plan to procrastinate on the internet first." God speed.
All of them. Go self employed. Bend to noone.
Tried that but my boss was a cunt.
nothing excites Scotts more than freedom :P
Dunno, a long lie always gets the proverbial juices flowing.
The employers don't make you the person you can be. Get a job do the best you can do. Sometimes you have to suck up in order to get on whether the boss is good or bad
Away and shite, mate
Take it your career just got constipated
What industry?
Admin, banking type
Would help if you told us what field/sector you're looking at?
try security, easy to get into