Creed Foodservice Employee Reviews

When headsets work and cages roll everything is fine. But when the good cages have all been used and the headsets fail to understand what you're saying over and over, it gets stressful fast. Depending on who is in, management can be of no use and nothing is done about health and safety violations with people even being penalised and threatened with being fired for having (not causing) accidents.

Pros

Above min wage

Cons

H&s, Management, Equipment, Mandatory overtime

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Toxic - Another Knock of a Good Workers Confidence

Customer Service Executive (Former Employee) - Ilkeston - 21 August 2023

Not interested in people who can see that things could work better and have suggestions. Very school girl like environment where if your face doesn't fit, no matter how good you are at your job, they will make sure you're gone. Pull the rug out from under you so easily after promising to work with you. Also offer you so many holiday days with no option to use then due to staffing levels.

Pros

The overall company seemed interested in how customer service/telesales were doing, unlike most similar companies.

Cons

Toxic work environment

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Insights into Creed Foodservice

Based on 35 survey responses

What people like

Ability to meet personal goals
Fair pay for job

Areas for improvement

Support from manager
Supportive environment
Ability to learn new things

I felt bullied and my confidence was majorly knocked.

Admin (Former Employee) - Ilkeston, Derbyshire - 25 July 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?How close it was to where I lived What is the most stressful part about working at the company?The lack of training and how if they don't like you they make it well know. I especially hated how unprofessional they were.What is the work environment and culture like at the company?Very school girl, mean girls like.What is a typical day like for you at the company?Stressful. Always felt judged and pressurised, like my best wasn't enough.

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A nightmare

Warehouse Operative (Nights) and driver (Former Employee) - Gloucester - 1 June 2023

If your good at your job they reward you by letting you do somebody else’s Miserable management that make it clear they don’t care about your mental health or your personal life And they rob you of your overtime

Pros

None

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Ok

Warehouse Operative (Former Employee) - Staverton, Gloucestershire - 6 April 2023

Avoid if you can, manager is not fair to all employees. Long hours, don’t get paid for over time.

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Toxic environment

Warehouse Operative (Nights) (Former Employee) - High Wycombe - 9 February 2023

Creed nights wooburn green very toxic environment not a good place to work and management makes promises but never delivers. Some workers there are extremely toxic

Pros

Some free food

Cons

Stay until finished job

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Hard graft but money is ok.

HGV Class 2 Driver (Current Employee) - Ilkeston, Derbyshire - 22 September 2022

Lots of handball, early starts. Pay is decent and a good team there. Good for newly passed drivers

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Toxic

Customer Service (Former Employee) - Ilkeston - 4 September 2022

Horrible company to work for unless your 'face fits ' There is a toxic culture in the office , a clique that unless you are part of it they do not want to know , don't care about you're ideas , don't care about you and how dare you have a personality !! Only they are allowed personalities , they choose their favourites who get away with everything . Steer clear from this company . If you're face does not fit they WILL make sure they get rid of you and will collude with each other on how to do this . hence the high turnover of staff

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Bad management

HGV class 2 (Current Employee) - Ilkeston, Derbyshire - 9 August 2022

Been at creed for quite a few years and worked in a few departments, but on the whole management couldn’t care less, only want to hear good feedback and not prepared to do anything when you complain about things, on the whole the more people you talk to the more you find want to leave, me included, this used to be a place I could see me retiring at but not now, very sole destroying

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Fast paced

Warehouse Operative/Packer (Former Employee) - Cheltenham - 16 February 2022

Fast paced environment work life balance was good hygiene standards are very high as you are working with food good team always happy to answer any questions you havecor if you need help with anything

Pros

Good team

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Sales Manager (Former Employee) - Cheltenham - 25 January 2022

Hard work to get good ideas taken on board. Managers focus on a few and largely ignore others.No real progression unless they like you. Some Mangers can’t manage and do bat way above their station.Some good people though

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Productive and fun place to work

HGV 2 Driver (Current Employee) - Wooburn - 13 January 2022

I work at other food companies this by far the best one I've worked for great work life balance your actually a person and they take on your views not like other companies where your just a number

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Really disappointed

HGV Class 2 Driver (Former Employee) - Wooburn Green, Buckinghamshire - 14 December 2021

After a really good interview and a few weeks in the cab with other drivers it seemed really promising that was until I got my own route, the locations you're expected to deliver to are sometimes down single track roads that make driving an 18 tonne lorry incredibly stressful.The lorries are poorly looked after and management try to get you to fix the truck when it breaks down! the routing is awful and you're always loaded with more cages than when you asked.Really put me off working as food carrier.

Pros

discounts on fresh food

Cons

poorly maintained trucks, awful routing, long hours

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Respect and appreciation

Manager (Current Employee) - Staverton, Gloucestershire - 3 November 2021

Having worked at Creed for nearly 11 years it’s safe to say We’ve never experienced a time like this with constant struggles and a worldwide pandemic but what has been consistent is the support and respect from the entire company.Creed set their standards high and live their values promoting within offering training and compassion from the shop floor right up to the CEO.My manager has helped me go from strength to strength having open and transparent conversation that helps build a culture of trust and integrity.Would I recommend Creed Foodservice absolutely because they believe in their values,Customers and Staff because People always come first.

Pros

Fantastic staff benefits/Not micro managed/People culture

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Excellent place to work

Manager (Current Employee) - Staverton, Gloucestershire - 28 October 2021

The work at Creed is extremely varied, you have opportunities to get involved in different projects and people of all levels are involved in crucial decision making through working groups (e.g Sustainability, SharePoint, Creed Exceed, Insights workshops).Other managers, HR and directors are really supportive and helpful, they are always willing to make time to talk to you about anything and want to know about your ideas on how to improve the business. Listening, coaching and mentoring are key approaches of senior management who believe that the people employed to do the job are the best people to make decisions about how to improve the work and the environment.Really proactive positive approach, focus on investing in the future and a continuous improvement culture where you are empowered to make decisions, improvements and to shape the next step for your career.

Pros

People listen, are willing to help and are supportive, great benefits

Cons

Statutory pension, family leave and sick pay only

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Stressful and demanding

HGV Class 2 Driver (Current Employee) - High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire - 18 October 2021

You will get given 9 hours to do 10 drops that is 2 hours away from base, impossible. Loading is extremely poor and most cages have no breaks or doors delivering to a sloped drive meaning the cages will run away and if you try to catch them your will injure yourself, no help and support but when your finished early you will be expected to go and help others which then leaves you finishing later then your finish time. Not much support from management but maybe the job is just not for me.

Pros

Occasionaly free food

Cons

Very long hours with no support

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Poor pay for busting a ******* everyday

Class 2 Driver (Current Employee) - Ilkeston, Derbyshire - 11 October 2021

Never any thanks poor routing and management skills get what you want if your face fits other than that prepare for a long day no help and very old cages or overloaded pallets and then lots of damages also most trucks are reliable but others need scrapping but still get used

Pros

Free food close to sell by date

Cons

Long hours poor pay

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Great place to work

Class 2 18 tonne driver (Current Employee) - Cheltenham, Gloucestershire - 1 September 2021

Very good company with a good ethos, hoot to employees can be hard work but that’s same at most places, early starts, good team. Not much else to say

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Stressful

HGV Class 2 Driver (Current Employee) - Staverton, Gloucestershire - 22 July 2021

Vehicles not looked after. Routes not planned well and loads can be too much for one person. Drivers are constantly complaining about routes and lack of communication between departments.

Pros

None

Cons

Long hours, stressful job.

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Challenging but fun

Telesales Executive (Current Employee) - Ilkeston, Derbyshire - 8 June 2021

Working in a small but very busy office it can be very challenging, but no trouble for hard workers.The team are close and bring fun into your working day. There are plenty of opportunities for internal progression for people who earn it and show an eagerness to push themselves. Having worked for various large corporations its refreshing to work for a family company that cares for its employees and this shows in the recently awarded Sunday Times Best Companies to work for 2020.

Pros

Development Chefs provide hands on lunch demos, freebies from suppliers on promotions, cycle to work, Employee reward gateway, best companies to work for, living wage foundation

Cons

Very fast paced office not for everyone depending on their IT skills

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I really enjoyed this job

Accounts Clerk (Former Employee) - staverton - 25 May 2021

This job that I came to was for 5 years and a real pleasure to enjoy. Hard Graft, challenging, but they let you handle it within parameters.There were certainly "let your hair down" days, but you were there to do a job. There were evening events that were quite fun, and great to meet our contacts, though it was obligatory.We also received occasional perks of food, wrong labels etc at cost price.Finally they decided to restructure which I think added work to my job, I was already at stretching point.One sad reason for leaving was,personal circumstances demands, clashing with work demands saw me take the redundancy option