DPD Employee Reviews in Oldbury

Very physical you were supposed to have had help loading but hardly got it. Time restraints management had their favourites and you could waste an hour waiting in the high value queue.

Pros

Free food occasionally

Cons

Long hours

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nightmeare

HGV Class 1 Driver (Former Employee) - Oldbury - 6 November 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?nothing good to say abut this company What is the most stressful part about working at the company?meting some nice customer floor level stafe are ok manager think and act like there military comanderWhat is the work environment and culture like at the company?horribole bad for meanthal and evrethingWhat is a typical day like for you at the company?just want to get out and save my life

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Its ok, but a boring

HGV Class 1 Driver (Current Employee) - Oldbury - 25 September 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?Its ok at DPD, but you had better avoid getting any tacho infringements! What is the most stressful part about working at the company?No real stress unless you let it get to you. What is the work environment and culture like at the company?Its a very routine job - can be boringWhat is a typical day like for you at the company?Taking a trailer to another dpd depot, bring an empty back

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Fast Paced and Well Paid

Shift Manager (Current Employee) - Oldbury - 6 July 2023

Fast paced, well paid and never a dull day. Not for everyone. High staff turnover (especially in the warehouse, as not everyone is adapatable as is required for this environment)

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Nice place but there is a culture of a tight groups

Data/Admin Clerk (Former Employee) - Oldbury - 7 July 2022

Some of the people are to clicked together and most are close friends or relatives. I temped there and some people there like to remind you of that power as gone to there heads. Free lunches sometimes if they included you. Don't get me wrong there is some nice people there

Pros

Free lunches sometimes

Cons

Ease going

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Good clean workplace

Loader/Unloader (Current Employee) - Oldbury - 16 February 2022

Good job wicked hours over the Christmas period and new year can earn some good money here great managers and staff everybody treats you fair do get your perks now and then with the free food drinks sometimes

Cons

Long hours

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Good job

StaffCo Agency (Current Employee) - Oldbury - 5 January 2022

Been at DPD through the agency. Easiest HGV job about. Relaxed and just trunking work. Most 1 collection a day. Old trucks but that never bothered me.

Pros

Good crew of people, relaxed. Not stressful at all

Cons

Really strict on some silly rules

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Productive

Linehaul driver (agency worker) (Former Employee) - Oldbury - 4 January 2022

Shift management is very poor as concerns agency workers. Shifts cancellations without notifying neither agencies or drivers who end up return home unpaid for the day.

Pros

Good driving hours

Cons

Unstable shift patterns

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Stressful don't bother no respect for you

Industrial Cleaner (Former Employee) - Oldbury - 28 September 2021

Very stressful job don't care about your illness treat u like rubbish I'm glad that I left. Had PTSD after motorbike accident they need to be trained about ppl having mental health issues specially. Sodexo

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Cons

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Hub 3 Oldbury

HGV Class 1 Driver (Former Employee) - Hub3 Oldbury - 30 May 2021

No job security at all, I had to stop in a service being solo and trying to call to get a permission to stop and off course nobody answered, I had to go at toilet and I was suspended 1 month and after that they sacked me for this, if you looking for a good job avoid DPD,I understand they sacked drivers for any stupid reasons,one of the manager's it was a stobart driver before and planner's are the worst like their filthy stinky truck's.

Pros

Money, uniform

Cons

Long hours, bad attitude from planner's and manager's1.000.0000 km truck's.

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Warehouse Operative (Former Employee) - Oldbury - 13 April 2021

When worked with them i feel energetic cus my sortation manager was very good. I myself Allways think to try to learn something to make futuer will be batter. And i think if i gain some of experence i will be ok.

Pros

Free drinks

Cons

Long hour

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Great company

Linehaul Driver (Current Employee) - Oldbury - 13 March 2021

Very nice company to work for. They look after you. Only thing they dislike is accidents and infringements. So if you are good you will love the company.

Pros

Company offers plenty benefits and perks. Good overtime pay.

Cons

Nothing

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Productive

Customer Service (Former Employee) - Oldbury - 10 December 2019

save, secure and favorable work environment, well-organized process, young and energetic team, company uniform and supplies, on-time payment of monthly remuneration,

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Great company

Courier Parcel Driver (Current Employee) - Oldbury - 4 December 2019

Good fast pace and active job, the more you do the more you benefit, very interactive, great training clear and precise, best training Is on the job and in depo

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Bad management

Deckhand / Supervisor (Former Employee) - Oldbury - 26 August 2019

Bad management, they single out certain employees by putting them on a job where it required more than one person, good and loyal employees are leaving or getting dismissed which I think is very unfair.... Furthermore the management are having relationships with employees and promoting them e even though they have no experience.

Pros

Some where you can use the facilities to wash and eat

Cons

Not issued ppe when needed

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Good money, but Stressful work

Owner Driver Franchisee (Former Employee) - Oldbury - 8 April 2019

you can earn good enough money if you can work hard. but no matter what and how you try to do it this job with definitely give you stress such is the nature of parcel distribution business. but if you have decided to go into parcel delivery business the DPD is not a very bad choice. For a person who wants to have a good time with a franchise and looking for lovely hard work you gona love while earning, you got to be careful. people are always there to pull you down, you will see very less compassion and loads of politics and hypocrisy. though it may not be obvious to see but there is a big favoritism in company. DPD provides opportunity to up to different and better ranks in company but, even if you have a Master Degree you may not become a Shift Manager, rather they would just randomly make a part time warehouse operative, helper or cleaner a shift manager in a day, because it wouldn't hurt a Ego of the higher management. But, you can earn good money, you don't need and college or university degrees to work here, without ever been to college you can earn about £30,000 you don't need any special skills, only a clean Driving Licence and have to be good at delivering parcels with company standards. and sometimes you have to be able to carry 30 plus Kg parcels too. Verdict: not one of the best jobs, but for some people its could be just amazing Good Luck

Pros

Earning potential.

Cons

mornings full of stress, very bad management, earning potential leading to hypocrisy at work place in many different ways, very bad work place politics leading to favoritism.

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Alright

Parcel Sorter (Former Employee) - Oldbury - 7 December 2017

Jobs their included heavy lifting, Moving and Sorting parcel, Loading all trailers and the cages within deadlines, Sorting parcels coming off the delivery and following procedure to organize them to the correct departments

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Good

warehouse operative (Former Employee) - Oldbury - 2 October 2017

This job is hard work however the staff are supportive and help you out when they see your struggling. Nearly, everyone was friendly. this job offers over-time work.

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Racist management structure.

Deckhand (Former Employee) - Smethwick and oldbury - 7 July 2017

Even though there are a couple of lower level Asian managers on the night shift now, they are puppets and were only appointed because potential customers asked the question why all the management were white middle class. When I worked on the shop floor there were Asian and black deckhands who has degrees, yet they were overlooked and for management positions and progression In favour of outside applicants simply because the outside applicants were white. Some of the outside applicants didn't have a clue what they were doing and their appointment was an absolute joke. Most of the managers are only working here because of who they know (somebody's godson etc.) or have usually been management failures at other companies.

Pros

What pros?

Cons

Racist management structure

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Very Hard Work

Parcel Sorter (Former Employee) - Oldbury - 6 July 2017

Most nights I worked 10-14 hours a night. Throw you from different job roles, need to be very versatile and fit to work there. Management isn't the best as they just want you to break your back to clear the lorry's.

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Productive Work enviroment

Admin (Former Employee) - Oldbury - 26 June 2017

the work place was great, the department always works as a team to ensure that the jobs done. I only did work experience there but they didn't leave me with nothing the people that work always gave me something to do, I highly cant recommend a better work place to work in.

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