Not good firms to work for - Page 6

moonbyter · 09-04-2007, 15:06

Must be this shower of cowboys, they canvass door to door, over priced, low quality suites, with stupid, public insulting gimmics, and "special offers", dont pay their staff, use benefit people, ...........keep well away!

MargaretR · 09-04-2007, 15:59

I did one day as a chambermaid at the Dunkenhalgh. What I saw was a revelation. I have never dined there since and now always wash crockery in hotel rooms before use. I never got paid at all!!!!! - so they didnt get their uniform back.

maxwell silver · 09-04-2007, 20:15

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Originally Posted by margaret@rothwell5.f

I did one day as a chambermaid at the Dunkenhalgh. What I saw was a revelation. I have never dined there since and now always wash crockery in hotel rooms before use. I never got paid at all!!!!! - so they didnt get their uniform back.

I worked in the kitchens as a commi chef in 77,they would'nt tell me my rate of pay,insisting the experience would benefit me.I worked split shifts for 2 weeks,having to get back to Bash after work(no transport provided).When i finally got paid it was for the measly wage of 35p an hour.Never went back.

Riq · 09-04-2007, 20:28

I went for a job with MyTravel last year, surfice to say I didn't get it, but in hindsight, I'm quite glad I didn't!!

I worked for Express Gifts at weekend when I was at Sixth Form, that was bad, but I always knew it wasn't for long.

I've also worked for Natwest through university, been to allsorts of branches, I really enjoyed it there too, but the fulltimers weren't keen, it's changed beyond all recognition in the last few years I was told, Sales sales sales, you may have noticed if you have been in recently just to pay money in!!

Bagpuss · 10-04-2007, 18:51

There is a certain large company in Hyndburn that makes 50 British workers redundant because of a lack of work and then when they have gone brought in replacement Polish workers for less money.

lady loverocket · 26-04-2007, 00:10

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Originally Posted by niceone

hansons brickyard in huncoat, they have layed 100+ workers off for three weeks without pay!!!!!!!

your full of rubbish it was 75 workers 73 excluding you and your brother me and everyone else were quite happy to be paid 500 by hanson and recieve the dole as well it goes to show ur intelligence leaving a job like this i believe you got a mortgage on the strength of this place but guess what ur selling up already whats wrong cant afford your payments can u

Bagpuss · 26-04-2007, 00:14

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Originally Posted by lady loverocket

your full of rubbish it was 75 workers 73 excluding you and your brother me and everyone else were quite happy to be paid 500 by hanson and recieve the dole as well it goes to show ur intelligence leaving a job like this i believe you got a mortgage on the strength of this place but guess what ur selling up already whats wrong cant afford your payments can u

Someones got a chip on their shoulder, welcome to accyweb, you could have introduced yourself first.

maccawozzagod · 26-04-2007, 20:10

the place I just left was terrible

reduced my wage by 25% only 7 weeks after they headhunted me by saying that they couldn't justify my wage! Further to that they still expected me to do the hours that I had decided I would do when I opened their trade counter.

they wouldn't let anybody use the kettle as they hadn't been trained to do so and they installed a vending machine that they get a cut of.

They installed security cameras in my shop area that weren't watching the shop, had no roam facility and never showed me how to operate the playback. But still wanted to know if I knew anything about stock shortages!
Put phones in that were linked to the computer so they could instantly check how many calls you had made, received etc and how many to each number.

Made little or no effort to push the place (one advert in 8 months) and then wanted to know why the place was not doing as well as expected.
In 8 months as head of that department I was never invited to any of the twice weekly 'meetings' they had even though I was frequently on the agenda and every other department was represented.

Never took any notice of any of the ideas that I had

Never informed anybody of any decisions made whether relevant to that person or not. I found out three days after the event that the company had changed name! I only found that out when I happened to be in the admin office when they took an external call

They looked at me strangely when issuing me with my redundancy notice I whooped and hollered
"you can work your notice if you like"
"errm let me think a moment - NO"
"We can offer you a job driving, but it'll mean another 25% decrease"
"errm - NO"
"take as long as you like before you leave"
"open the door now"

lancsdave · 26-04-2007, 20:12

Makes you wonder how some people expect to make a profit in business Macca.

Bagpuss · 26-04-2007, 23:08

Name and shame Macca ???

Neal · 27-04-2007, 07:57

Peter Barrowcliffe and Gail Bould T/A Tipek Security Services based in Bacup and Bury was a bad company to work for.

They don't pay wages, i'm still waiting for the £200 of the court order they owe me. The interest is looking very nice though as it's been over 12 months so i'll wait for it to become a nicer figure before sending bailiffs in.