Head office management are stuck in their ways
Some store managers are far from professional. Swearing and and belittling employees.
Not very flexible
Favouritism towards some staff which sees them being given more profitable sales leads rather than shared more fairly with the team
High school feeling being at work. Feeling like you get in trouble for everything. When you've cleaned a display kitchen for example, it's inspected like you're a child.
Some store managers are bad but then so much is restricted from head office too. It's a totally dictorial type of company to work for. They talk the talk but don't walk the walk.
Lots of negatives with a large amount of my colleagues currently looking for a way out of the company, including me!
The reason Wren scores high on employee satisfaction is because within your training week (as a designer anyway), as part of one of your modules, there is a review that you have to leave. Being new to the company you can't really give a negative review at that point...hence the high score!
Employees are dropped often and often seem without great justification.
Can easily go over your weekly hours without much thanks or offer to give you your time back. If you're a moment late in though, you definitely know about it!
Director level management have suggested to store managers that they need to hire more of a certain race and sex of employee, stating that a store has too many of a certain ethnic group in store. This does not seem acceptable instruction to come from top management, talk about discrimination
Some management just have a lack of respect and professionalism towards employees.
If you don't have a thick skin, don't apply to be a designer, the money won't be worth it.
The basic pay is rubbish and usually takes a good 6-9 months to earn regular decent income. When you have holidays, that'll reduce your pay too.
