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Do the Benefits beat the general monotony?

Advantages: Great pay and benefits, fantastic flexibility, new uniform better, promotion opportunities
Disadvantages: Monotony of a job at Tesco, antisocial/rude customers

I have worked at Tesco for the past two and a half years since I left school in order to fund my uni life. I have continued to stick with the company because it suits my student lifestyle. Reasons for this are as follows... *~Pay~* In comparison to other part-time jobs the pay is very good. As a checkout operator who has worked there for more than a year I am paid £6.94 an hour. This is slightly more than the normal wage (which is still over £6) ...
...benefits and childcare vouchers. Basically, Tesco seem to offer probably the best pay and benefits for supermarket workers on the whole in Britain. *~Flexibility~* As a student, I really value flexibility in my life. I currently work 9 hours a week and can do overtime if I feel I have to. Checkout operators and customer assistants usually work anywhere between 8 hours and 35 hours a week. Tesco have been superb at catering for my needs. When I ...

Renza 23.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Tesco

Waitrose woooooo

Advantages: Good benefits
Disadvantages: Boring if you don't do many jobs

...work for the Partnership (which Waitrose is included in for those who don't know). As I was a bit depressed and lost it wasn't in my interest to find work, so I remember my mum taking me to our local Waitrose to get an application form. It was a Friday afternoon and seeing the big queues was very daunting, I think i had tears in my eyes! I was definitely not very happy.. As a Partner Interview I had an interview in a tiny office, ...
...whether this applies to all Waitrose branches, but I feel mine is quite bad at communication, lots of my colleagues would agree on this one, it's hard not to feel unnoticed sometimes. I guess it's what you make of it though. For the past two years I've been asking to be trained on the Home Delivery section, only to be told a different reason each time why I couldn't. I went on and on about it, I was trained for about an hour, a year ago or more ...

fg4f 27.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Waitrose

WhSmiths

Advantages: Its a job, that provides money
Disadvantages: The time that you waste at the start and end of the day without pay

WHSmiths is one of the most well known high street stores. As a current employee i intend to give you all of the information that i can think of about it. ***How Much Do You Get Paid?*** This will be the question that most peope are interested in. It currently is above the minimum wage, but with the minimum age rising, it wont be that much above it. For somebody starting off as a probationer the pay is £4.28 perhour, then hopefully after three ...
...are between 16 and 18 you get £4.81 per hour. If you are 18, you get £5.13 per hour The only way that you could more than this would be to get promoted, however the chances of this happening are very rare, as there always seems to be people with more experience than you. Payment is made by BACS on the last day of every month usually, unless it's a bank holiday in which you could get payed even earlier, hardly ever later. Also overtime from one ...

myotherone 02.07.2008 · Read full review
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Review of WHSmiths

Made me ill! Don't work at Toys r Us

Advantages: get to work with toys
Disadvantages: treated badly by some managers

I worked for toys r us for a couple of months as a shop floor assistant. I do not recommend working for them at all. I will start at the beginning. After applying I was invited for a group interview. I was absolutely petrified as I am quite a shy person but I went along anyway. Luckily for me lots of people didn’t turn up, so instead of having a group interview with about 12 people, there were only five of us. Basically we all had to introduce someone ...
...it is fun working with toys and you never get bored of the products because there is so many. You don’t get to play with them though obviously! The stock room is huge and I was always struggling to find things, which were supposedly well labelled and well organised. It was not! Another good point is that they did pay me correct amounts and it was quite a good wage apparently compared to other stores. I think the key thing is it depends on the managers ...

lazysplodge 26.04.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Toys R Us

Employer of monkeys.

Advantages: I met my future husband while working there
Disadvantages: See review

This review is based on my personal experience at one Wetherspoon pub, and on other viewpoints from friends who have been employed by J D Wetherspoons. WHAT IS J D WETHERSPOON? J D Wetherspoon is a chain of restaurant/pubs in almost every city and large town around the UK. J D Wetherspoon also has 10 lodges covering the UK. They have separate smoking, non-smoking and family sections. There is a menu of around 50 meals from fish and chips to lasagne, ...
...the week. They cater for almost every drinker; they have a variety of guest ales, alcho-pops, spirits, cocktails and soft drinks. Again, these are cheaply priced and there are offers on throughout the week. Most of the J D Wetherspoon pubs are in old buildings of historic interest, normally with contemporary interior design. J D Wetherspoon has a reputation for having odd toilets! Usually with sofas and chairs, or barricades of mirrors. WHO ARE ...

treley 03.04.2004 · Read full review
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Review of JD Wetherspoon