From the Sales side it was awful after a week there I knew I made a big mistake and was completely mis sold the role. But all departments and staff are dissatisfied with their role and the company which equates to the high turnover of staff.
- Micromanagement from all the senior staff, this makes it such a nasty and dissatisfying place to work.
- Employees get shouted and sworn at
- Lots of closed door conversations with staff talking about other employees.
- Inaccurate job description
- Management only care about perception not results
- Some employees were too scared into leaving because they had been threatened by management.
- Certain people should be removed from their role as they force all the sales staff to leave if they don’t make 150 cold calls a day- but when you do get on the phone either Skype doesn’t work OR you get told off for talking too loud on the phone because the office is silent.
- Management have no respect for their staff, that rude where they don’t even say ‘hi’ when coming in or have the decency to reply to an email.
- No budget to spend on marketing or events, but one of the Management will go to America for 6 weeks in posh hotels and come back without generating a single piece of business and would of spent £4K on expenses and £10k on talking at an event, these ‘work trips’ would happen after only being in UK for 2 weeks.
- No support from line management.
- HR team are ‘out of the box’ and very inexperienced they don’t actually understand the processes that need to be followed to adhere to company policies.
- Encouraged to play pool or table tennis at any point in the day if you need to de stress but then if you do step away from your desk certain ‘snakey’ staff with report you to your line management.
- IT department are very incompetent and cannot deal with simple laptop issues.
- Management have favourite employees who get to do nice things or get sales leads to pursue.
- Pay is never correct and some employees don’t get paid at all.
- Terrible lighting conditions to work in - great if you actually enjoy getting a headache but be prepared to sit there with all the blinds shut so it replicates a basement.
- Office is dated, stuffy and not nice to work in
- Brew facilities are awful it’s like being at a ‘butty van’ with random sachets everywhere and there isn’t even a fridge for the milk.
All in all it’s been an awful experience here, myself and the rest of the sales team managed to get out. There is still some people that are trapped there and my thoughts go out to them.
