If you value your mental health, stay away! - Anonymous employee Veolia Employee Review

1.0
7 Sept 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- The pay was good. - Some people are good to work with, but depends on luck sometimes.

Cons

- No work/life balance - The volume of work was too much with tight deadlines which aren't achievable unless I worked more than my contracted hours. But if I did, I wasn't paid overtime. - Felt like a 'Big brother' environment, as you had to on a weekly basis go over your projects and talk about everything you did and did not do, which itself was time consuming. - I was expected to be assertive, however I think managerial definition of assertive was unprofessional and very much 'throw your toys out the pram' attitude. I found this very unprofessional. - No flexible working hours - Had to be in 2 days at the office or at a depot - Strictly limited to a 30 minute lunch only - Bullying culture - No onboarding process - A lot of office grapevine - I would never recommend any of my friends or colleagues that I know of, past or present to work here.

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Veolia Response
3y
Hi, thank you for your review. We're really disappointed to hear that your experience working with us was not a positive one. Thank you also for your honesty, we are concerned by some of your comments as we want to ensure that everybody feels valued and respected working at Veolia. If you would like to discuss this in further detail as well we'd love to hear from you so that we can better listen to you and address these issues, you can email us at uki.HRhelpdesk@veolia.com. May we wish you all the best in your future employment. Kind regards, Veolia Resourcing Team.

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