Currys reviews

The work and life balance is poor. To progress up the ranks takes far to long, despite being a colleague who could do everything in store from sales to customer service, warehouse etc.... I only got a remotely significant pay rise £0.30 per hour extra 2 weeks before I left after 6 years... store management seem to have no control over payrole in there own store. The way to get paid was to complete training and go to workshops but the workshops were few and far between and very hard to get a place on. Pressure - of course there is pressure on sales staff, it retail, however the quantity of targets is just silly and far to much to think about when your having a conversation with a customer. colleagues will give stuff away just to hit random targets, the amount of different ways stores and colleagues would play the numbers just so they don't get in trouble with senior management. For example store hits targets but has low margin, this store and manager are praised for making less money. Store exceeds its margin and sales target but doesn't hit all its figures - there told its unacceptable. It gets to the point where most colleagues will just send customers to other stores even though they have stock, just to avoid a bad sale. - this happens a lot.

The company continues to treat staff badly by increasing targets and expecting more from their employees without reflecting this in the wage that is paid. every year they change their bonus structure and in doing so make it more difficult for employees to achieve. Morale is very low in stores and every sale you make is criticized if you haven't sold all the add ons as well as the product. There are no opportunities for progression either which means experience is rewarded with people being given additional, but unofficial, responsibilities without any further remuneration.