H&M reviews

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.

I'd give 0 stars if I could Unsafe work environment (this is illegal and completely unacceptable) Unfair rosters - store manager works 8-5 most days with weekends off. Completely unfair to other management and also we need two managers closing at the weekends. The store is in such a bad way, we need the extra help Level of workload expected without proper staffing - staff constantly call in sick because they can't face working. Recently 3 were off sick due to stress leave. There's no leadership from the store manager. We're all left fending for ourselves and half the staff are new or are not trained properly Store management lacking in leadership - allowing inexperienced staff to run a store is just unintelligent. The store is the worst I've ever seen. Unless we have a strong and motivational leader at the helm we will never get out of the pit we're in The store is filthy- on a daily basis customers complain about the dirt and dust everywhere (fitting rooms, tills, floors, shelves and even on clothes) and staff have to listen to angry customers when the standard of cleaning is out of our control. We've mentioned this several times to management and nothing is done. Half the staff are getting sick due to the dirt in the store. There's a big hole in th floor of the stockroom which all of us constantly fall over. This is seriously going to hurt someone some day. Irish area team covering each others backs while the staff in store are struggling - excuses always given and no real action taken. This review isn't just to complain or give out this is a genuine concern for the welfare of the staff in this store. Get the store in a safe condition before someone really hurts themselves. All observed in H&M Mary Street