Culina Group Pay & benefits reviews

Long hours, decent pay. Wouldn't really recommend working here long term. If there was reduced shifts I would have likely stayed. Training was easy enough to follow and understand.

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Ok place if you are used to the cold and labor intensive jobs

Warehouse Operative (Current Employee) - Tilbury, Essex - 29 October 2023

Pay is relatively ok... You have to meet hourly targets. ... They'll literally hound you for that. Team leaders and co-workers are also relatively friendly. good opportunities for overtime.

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Pretty good job overall

Picker (Current Employee) - Tilbury, Essex - 29 October 2023

3 months into this job and i like it the pickrates are abit hard to reach but the pay is worth it and the management is generally okay, the cold is probably the worst part, there are some great benefits like hot drinks , leftover stock giveaways every other week and high overtime rate but the work is so demanding on your back that you will find it hard to accept that overtime

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Fair

Driver (Current Employee) - Stafford, Staffordshire - 25 October 2023

Decent work clean rolling stock decent pay for what you do, some long days some short days, getting holidays aurthorized can be problematic. Most office staff are good

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Friendly staff , good fleet, poor managment

Class 1 Driver (Current Employee) - Bristol - 30 September 2023

Bad side: As a driver you are not treated same as the other drivers(some getting same routes and shorter hours) , bad route planing, poor management, hours getting longer.Good side: Good fleet, not bad salary, easy job, friendly and helpful drivers, in general not bad company as the others.

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Bad atmosphere, stressful

Order Picker (Former Employee) - Haverhill, Suffolk - 22 September 2023

Long hours, not enough breaks, the picking rate and supervisors are stressful.Usually, to hit your picking rate you have to have 24 pallets for the day which is 2 per hour roughly.Each pallet is with an approximate weight of 1000 kg.

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Place to work while you look for another job

Warehouse Operative (Current Employee) - Tilbury - 2 August 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?Convenient if you live locally What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Lack of hygiene. Foul toilets.Messy.What is the work environment and culture like at the company?Manager s only care about rates.No sick pay.Minimum possible holiday. Canteen and toilets filthy.Penny pinching. Huge waste of food.Nobody stays long.

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Repetitive task

Warehouse Operative/FLT Driver (Current Employee) - Salford - 25 June 2023

Fairly Ok place to work but slow about one's personal career development.Lots of overtime availability if you are interestedflexible shifts availableIn the invent of a fatal accident leading to death, a specific amount will be paid to NOK.

Pros

A bit flexible with the working hours

Cons

Even when you are obviously sick, they still would want you to go in working

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Place to go to earn money

Order Picker (Current Employee) - Bristol - 14 June 2023

You get paid to pick. No feedback on your performance unless they’re not happy with pick rate.No sick pay.If it’s quiet you may get sent home early not paid unless you bank hours or use up your holiday entitlement.

Pros

Free tea an coffee, Xmas hamper

Cons

Chilled environment, no real encouragement

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Easy Work , Start time can vary

HGV Class 1 Driver (Current Employee) - Market Drayton - 16 May 2023

As long as you can get used to varied start time and can put up with working for the culina culture youll be ok . Paid Cpc during work time , company discount scheme .

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Jobs at Culina Group

Warehouse Order Picker - Nights

Stafford

8 days ago

Warehouse Operative - Nights

Tilbury

14 days ago

Warehouse Order Picker - Rotating

Great place to work.

Warehouse Operative/Reach Truck Driver (Former Employee) - Stafford, Staffordshire - 10 April 2023

The managers are excellent, loads of benefits and freebies easy to book holidays, can feel a bit daunting at first but you pick it up very quickly, the on site training is very good and a decent pay.

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very busy targets bit high to acheive

Warehouse Operative (Former Employee) - Stafford, Staffordshire - 25 March 2023

got targets a bit rushed to hit them free coffee or tea wrap up well very cold work on trucks very fast paced not much training before they want you to hit targets

Pros

free tea or coffee

Cons

cold warehouse wrap up well

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Avoid like the Plague

Class 1 LGV Driver (Former Employee) - Stafford - 24 March 2023

If you want to wait 2-3 hours for a vehicle or trailer that is roadworthy, do 15-hour days, and have poor standards, then you will fit in perfectly. If you do your job correctly and report all defects to protect your license, you will become subject to a clandestine witch hunt. That's what happened to me, and they fired me a day before I was due to hand in my notice (it was common knowledge that I wasn't happy with the total lack of standards) I could have appealed, but I received the written notice of my dismissal 4 weeks after the hearing, and therefore I had missed my opportunity to appeal because Culina have an appeal time scale of just 5 days from the date of the official written notice...and that had long since lapsed, as the notice was dated from the date of my hearing. In short, do not trust them. They will draw you in with tales of how fantastic they are, but you will soon see their true colors. They could offer me 3 times my salary to go back there, and I would not hesitate...I would turn them down in a heartbeat. I have standards, and they are way above Culina.

Pros

They fired me

Cons

They took me on in the first place.

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Poor

IT Technician (Current Employee) - Lutterworth, Leicestershire - 7 March 2023

not good to work for, long hours for minimum pay, no sick pay, horrible management, no progression, feel forced out, only good thing is the hybrid working, but that feels restricted

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Nie polecam

Picker/Packer (Former Employee) - Bristol - 5 March 2023

Długie godziny pracy ,zimne środowisko, problemy z każdą wypłata w samym opisie jak pomnożymy każdą godzinę przez dzień w roku to wychodzi inna stawka inna pensja niż podają,banda oszustów,nie polecam.

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Do not work in IT for this company

IT Support (Current Employee) - Minworth, Warwickshire - 20 February 2023

If you're thinking of applying for a role in IT for this company, please think twice before making the biggest mistake of your life. They lie about staff getting new contracts, they give you the bare minimum days working from home, the salary IS NOT competitive, and they hire managers who openly bully their staff Infront of the office. If you're looking for a social life forget it. As they've brought out other companies, they expect you to do your own work load, plus the work of three other companies, for the same pay.Also , you have to be invited into their benefits scheme which means you're practically not getting a bonus. You only have to look at the amount of staff leaving.

Pros

Nothing

Cons

Everything

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It’s okay

Warehouse Operative (Current Employee) - Tilbury, Essex - 3 February 2023

Work is easy rates are fair but sometimes you will get bad picks which is down to luck but if your hitting your rates your good but team leaders can be harsh if your not hitting rates

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Good staff poor management.

Warehouse Operative (Former Employee) - Market Drayton - 17 January 2023

Very Cold place to work really hard work long hours. No thanks from management no people skills at all. Good staff that’s what’s keeps the place going

Pros

Always paid on time

Cons

Long hours very cold work place

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Don’t go to this work place

Order Picker/Packer (Current Employee) - Bristol - 12 January 2023

This place is like Auschwitz. It’s better if you don’t have an opinion of your own. Payouts every month do not match. Overall I do not recommend.

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Easy work. But long shifts.

HGV Class 1 Driver (Current Employee) - Milton Keynes - 10 January 2023

+Clean and easy work +Nice and comfortable trucks +Raported defects are done very fast.+Family atmosphere in office-A lot of driving long days many drops/stops. -Extra pay over 12h and less then hour rate. -Hard to book holidays -Problems underpayments, mistakes.-No sick pay -Lot of useless paperwork. -company stops in 90s

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Super

Picker/Packer (Former Employee) - Bristol - 30 December 2022

Super miejsce pracy. Jest dużo czasu na naukę oraz miła atmosfera. Nie ma problemu z urlopem czy jakimi kolejek problemami osobistymi. Życze dużo udanych kontraktów.

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