I will say things were not always this bad in H&M. It really used to be a fantastic place to work where people enjoyed coming to work and did not feel like they were just numbers.
A lot of the bad points have already been covered by previous reviews and are 100% true. It is like a one stop shop of things not to do, i.e. make people take holidays when they do not want to, spread your personal business around the country, completely disregard the law when it comes to your 11.5 rest break between shifts, favouritism...I could literally on forever.
H&M is a circus and the clowns are all the hard working teams all over Ireland who break there backs to try and do the impossible with no staff and ridiculous expectations set upon them. One common thing between all the reviews is the area team. Everything from them being rude , very little help and using scare tactics is true. This is the heart of the problem and the truly scary thing about all of this is that, when all of this comes to light they will simply say "we had no idea". These are the people who are entrusted with running this organisation within the north and south of Ireland and are clueless as to whats going on. Even when staff leaver rates have to be off the charts, as the majority of the experienced team members have all jumped ship leaving very very few long standing staff behind. They will still continue to do nothing.
My Advice to anyone reading this who is thinking about a job here is DO NOT!!!
Honestly its not worth it what so ever. It will crush you inside slowly and make you start to question the person you really are. My advice to any staff who might be reading this- GET OUT!! Yes its a scary prospect looking for another job but once you are free you will kill yourself for not doing it sooner.
As of the day I a writing this review there are 2 reviews below me that stand out as positive in a ocean of negativity. It would not surprise me if this was someone from the area team trying to do damage control.
