Welcome Break reviews

3.9

70% would recommend to a friend

(590 total reviews)
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John Diviney

87% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Welcome Break has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 590 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Welcome Break employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Atacado e varejo industry (3.5 stars).

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590 reviews
3.0
Jan 10, 2024
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Friendly culture between staff! Bonus scheme and rewards to staff Events through the year and engagement

Cons

Changes to management… people put in roles they feel are suitable however have a negative impact on staff well being - making the place become not very nice to work and treated differently depending on how well they like you not what you are doing for the business! New management made this a toxic environment!!

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Welcome Break Response
2y
Thanks for taking the time to leave a review. It's great to hear that you worked with a good team and that you enjoyed some of the rewards that we offer. Thanks for sharing your experience of the management that you worked with, if you'd like to discuss this further please reach out to Recruitment.Admin@WelcomeBreak.co.uk. Kind Regards, Charlotte Hughes Resourcing Business Partner Welcome Break
1.0
Jan 6, 2024
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Lunch allowance provide up to £10

Cons

Unsupportive management poor training lone working

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Welcome Break Response
2y
Thanks for taking the time to leave a review. It's disappointing to hear about your experience and I'd like to help to resolve this, please reach out to Recruitment. Admin@WelcomeBreak.co.uk for a confidential conversation. Kind Regards, Charlotte Hughes Resourcing Business Partner Welcome Break
1.0
Dec 1, 2023

Middle management are monstrosities

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- mostly decent coworkers - managers have experience - customers tend to be nice - 50% off most meals

Cons

- as with all work places middle management destroys - consistently hire r*de, l*zy and *rrogant middle managers who usually have little to no English communication skills, team player abilities or good leadership qualities. - Despite this, upper management must always support middle management over ordinary workers - This structure means that middle management can, and are extremely willing to use their position however they like, and be believed, trusted and valued more. - reaching middle management takes maximum 2 months of training - Not a good feeling to know that you will not be supported, if someone with 1 month extra training determines so. - both MM+UM Violate GDPR by taking pictures of workers without their consent and send it to all coworkers to see, to deliberately bully, harass, intimidate + humiliate. - sexual harassment is absolutely rife in KFC - there are major sex pests written off as “party animals” instead of seriously told off or even fired… - constantly being bombarded + propositioned for sex by multiple male coworkers at KFC who have clearly been trained in sexual harassment - “it’s not sexual harassment because we don’t work together anymore” - constant threats of being sent home from MM - aka lose your source of income that day - for little things I.e dropping tongs, angry cook - this kind of unstable work environment is not sustainable: employees can lose more money coming into work than not - makes sure employees are hyperaware they are highly replaceable and largely unimportant - if the clearest message to all employees is: you are replaceable AND we can take your pay + put you in a deficit at will, does that leave motivation to remain? Knowing you are essentially working a 0 hour contract. - all MM decision is supported, so if they don’t like you (which they will not [having a b*d personality is MM req no.1] no matter how amiable, kind + blind to their faults you are) they can decide your income for that day based on whether they are happy that day… - middle management are stressed (despite doing less than ordinary workers, and heavily abusing delegation powers to sit on phone in office) because they are being pressurised by upper management -upper management told me this themself - top management is always on holiday, which makes upper management deliriously j*alous - abysmal pay for under 18’s! Have been paid more at the same age, from half a decade ago.

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Welcome Break Response
2y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. It's disappointing and worrying to read about your experience and I'd like to hear more from you to allow us to look into the serious accusations that you have made. Please reach out to Recruitment.Admin@WelcomeBreak.co.uk as soon as possible for a confidential conversation. Kind Regards, Charlotte Hughes Resourcing Business Partner Welcome Break
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