Please note: this is about the London location only.
-absolutely abysmal work/life balance. Hourly are regularly mandated to work overtime (12 hours). Salary are not safe either: 9 hours a day minimum and there is work almost every weekend (Sat and Sun). Your schedule will change in short notice especially if your department runs more than one shift. Planning life outside work is difficult because of these.
-a lot of the hourly are jaded against management and the company. They only work here because they can't find this salary anywhere else growing discontent by the day. This can lead to a toxic work environment.
-there is a glut in salaried staff that do little to seemingly nothing. You will often wonder "what does this person do?" and "who do I actually go to for a decision?".
-meetings upon useless meetings where people just talk about how they feel about issues and come up with surface level corrective actions.
-Decision making and management is frustrating. Management appear afraid to make mistakes, defer to others to do it for them and delay making crucial decisions.
-if you are not friends with the right people, don't expect a promotion or movement.
-Communication is often not effective. This is partly because of last minute decision making leading to last minute changes where the information doesn't get dispersed to the correct people.
-Supervisors are not appreciated. These leaders do a lot of hard work and are stuck in the middle of a jaded staff who don't like change and management who often disregard feedback.
-At the end of the day, the overall goal is to slaughter thousands and thousands of chickens to make fried chicken product for fast food. Not only are you contributing to climate change but you are contributing an unhealthy lifestyle. If you can get past this- go for it.
