Boots Reviews

Pros

Best place to work with ..learnt a lot ..had a great team at both lupset and chimes.

Cons

- Didn't get enough salary hike and a package. -in 2010, I was told that company will sponsor me working visa (Tier 2) and because of that I didn't find a new job .. in 2011, I was told that they can't sponsor the visa due to frequent changes in government rules. I would be there by this time if the company had sponsored me the visa or they would have informed me earlier (I could have joined other organisations) and I didn't have to return to my home country after spending lot of money in completing master's.

Pros

Above minimum wage. Bi-yearly wage increases. €10.70 starting, €12.65 after two years. Holidays equivalent to 4 weeks of contracted hours.

Cons

Those who have disabilities struggle to get extra hours during the summer. Not being allowed to fulfill tasks due to fear of insurance claims. Full time staff prioritised for holidays. Bonus almost impossible to achieve for anyone working on tills and not on the floor. Anyone working part time or who isn't a 'favourite' or has a minor disability is put on tills all day with no assistance or cover at any times. Often locking up you end up staying back extra time due to alarm faults, customers refusing to leave the store etc. And don't get paid extra for holding keys overnight, sometimes even for a week.

Pros

Fairly straightforward jobs, once / twice a year double discount. No age band for pay rates.

Cons

- Lack of security in certain evening hours, I work in an area that experiences a lot of regular theft, aggressive thieves, a lot of understaffing. Customers have tried to report the regular theft and lack of security as its dangerous for the staff and customers, however, there is lack of HQ interest and support on this issue. -Management can be awful, this all depends on the store. however, there are often "mean girl" clicks. The management speaks down to the staff, a lot of occasions of making staff cry and no apology or understanding. Expected to complete huge amounts of tasks while management avoids the shop floor. We'd be incredibly under-staffed yet management would still expect a huge workload to be completed while they themselves don't step foot near the regular shop floor work. The experience can be very management dependent especially as the management changes VERY often. However, the lack of security funding shows that the company itself doesn't care about the safety of their own staff.

Pros

Money, work your way up the ladder.

Cons

Colleagues act like kids in school, memtal health gets affected by other colleagues and acpts, takes a month or 2 or years to sort a problem out, you are just a number to the management, acpts talk down to you, acpts pull you down unless in their group of favourites. Management and acpts have favourites they look after. Environment is awful especially if you have mental health.

Pros

fun, good pay, good people

Cons

working, not many cons, customers can scam u