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Housing Officer (Former Employee) - South Yorkshire - 28 November 2021
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The most useful review selected by IndeedFour managers in four years due to unrealistic unachievable workload. No progression, no pay increases with inconsistent pay scale old employees paid 28,000 new paid 19,500 with no way of achieving a higher pay scale. Expectations to upskill yourself in your own time. No acknowledgement of the extra mile staff voluntarily went to during Covid. Told by management, if you don't like it leave. Extremely high staff turnover and management don't care
Pros
Love the people I work with
Cons
Undervalued, poor pay, no progression
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Avoid!
Fitness Manager (Former Employee) - Wokingham, Berkshire - 1 January 2022
Useless management. No help or support. No uniform. Shifts all over the place. Impossible to get annual leave. Don't provide the right tools to do the job properly.
Pros
None.
Cons
Everything.
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avoid working there
Lifeguard (Former Employee) - Putney, Greater London - 2 December 2021
Management is a joke, they don't care about staff and always are and will be short-staffed.Very poor work experience.You are required to do your regular jobs everyday which mostly involves cleaning. so you are a Cleaner rather then a lifeguard.Although you don't get paid enough for the responsibilities you have and what you are required to do .
Pros
nope
Cons
very long
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Interesting, good communication amongst team.
Accounts Admin Assistant- P/Time (Former Employee) - Wolverton, Buckinghamshire - 12 November 2021
I liked the post, I had a great manager who listened. It was a busy post with varied tasks. The company encouraged the staff to keep up to date with current legislation and a training course to teach the latest was insisted upon.
Pros
My manager encouraged good communication within the team.
Cons
Staff development could be better.
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Not a good place to work
Electrician (Former Employee) - Preston - 10 November 2021
Don’t work here. Management are very poor with a bullying attitude and a level of incompetence you have to see to believe. They waste thousands on stupid ideas but would discipline you for the slightest reason.
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low staff morale
Telecare operator (Current Employee) - Bamber Bridge, Lancashire - 12 September 2021
Company has stopped valuing staff and waste money at the detriment of staff.Lack of progression, no training to help with job opportunities.Too many team leaders.
Pros
Colleagues are amazing
Cons
Expectation to drop what you are doing to cover shifts at short notice
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caring management team and very understanding
Assistant services Manager (Current Employee) - South Shields - 22 August 2021
no 2 days the same ,gained vast experience through training and self development.Managers are very accommodating when you most need them.no cliques allowed to develop if they do they are resolved as soon as possible. Leaving at the end of your shift you feel like you are leaving family.Working as part of a team valued by your managers
Pros
excellent staff benefits
Cons
none
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Quite and slow
Gas Engineer (Former Employee) - Southern england - 16 August 2021
Have worked twice for PfP Gas team. This is a corporate company and you must follow all regulations, guidelines and all company procedures. If you can do this we'll expect to have a relaxed working life. Be prepared for a van tracker, personal tracker and all paperwork to be inspected every day.No personal use of van, and if you have 2 yrs experience or 35 yrs you will be paid the same.This is the reason I left, you are a number!!!If you can change you work ethics to not doing muck physical work and paid to drive around all day listening to music in the van then this is the job for you. I like working hard and pushing myself, so it wasn't for me. Left in 2021
Pros
Not a hard job, good holiday and sick cover
Cons
Schedule team that cant Schedule
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Not enough hours to complete job. Being monitored during your work
Cleaner (Current Employee) - Bamber Bridge, Lancashire - 15 July 2021
Should be an easy job to complete, unfortunately someone coming behind you to monitor you is very demeaning Hourly rate poor. Expecting results that's 100% even when you are down 75% of staff I.e 2 out of 6 workers. Left within 4 weeks. Good luckMaybe this job is for you, but unfortunately not for me
Pros
Free drinks
Cons
Everything
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Amazing company to work for
Head of Department (Current Employee) - Kidderminster, Worcestershire - 1 June 2021
A great company to work for that has been exceptionally supportive during the pandemic. There's a great sense of teamwork on site with opportunities to progress. The atmosphere is friendly and welcoming for staff and customers.
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Terrible management
Fitness Instructor (Former Employee) - Ferndown, Dorset - 17 May 2021
Dont work here if you have any ambition as they don’t like ideas from any staff that aren’t general managers. They lie about pay, don’t pay staff correctly and then become offended when challenged on their mistakes. Worst company.
Pros
Customers are nice
Cons
Management are terrible
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It is probably exactly like you’re expecting it to be!
Customer Support Co-ordinator (Former Employee) - United Kingdom - 7 April 2021
It’s your usual big company experience. Glossy and promising from the outside, peel back the veneer and you’re usual management issues, colleague politics etcI needed a job, they gave me a job.
Cons
‘Perks’ are dreadful. Expected to do a lot of things not in your job description, some pushing the boundaries of ‘questionable’
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Places for people? Do you mean faces for Places?
PMD (Former Employee) - Preston - 24 March 2021
Where do I begin...If you like working in a micromanaged, autocratic, and toxic environment this is the place for you!Having worked for this company for many years and it being an utter joke from the start, I kept telling myself it would get better and to stick it out. The office environment is toxic. There is a large conflict of interest. A large number of staff are either siblings or in a relationship. If you ever want to progress here, you better hope your face fits because otherwise you’re not moving anywhere. I really feel for the staff working in the PMD department they are expected to carry out their day to tasks while their phones ring off the hook all day meaning they physically do not get a chance to carry out these tasks. Don’t even think about putting yourself on bulletin to wrap up a call because you will get a warning!You’re timed for going for a wee. Your time in the lavatory while doing your business is added up and sent out as a stat for you whole team to see followed by a stern talking to by your manager if you go over a certain amount of minutes. Oh but they’re adamant it’s NOT a call centre even though all the call stats are up on giant TVs for everyone to view like you get in a call centre. You could work as hard as you like and think you’ll be appreciated for this but you won’t. But the smallest mistake you make because we’re all human and you’ll be pulled apart and most likely slagged off. 0 career progression unless you’re part of the clique. Unrealistic expectations this last year while working from home and home schooling children. Constant -
Pros
I’m no longer working there
Cons
Everything
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Ill managed, NO C.P.D, NO real Career progression
Employee (Former Employee) - West Sussex - 18 February 2021
Poor Management ComsNo CPD offeredNo on Site Career Progression No Pay Rise, EVER25 Min Paid BreakNo empathy or real care towards Staff£8.72p/h
Pros
25 min Break! No stress after work is done.
Cons
Long hours to get a good wage. (70 hour weeks)
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Awful.
Admin (Former Employee) - Bamber Bridge, Lancashire - 10 February 2021
No job security. Poor management. Poor team culture. Poor senior management. I don't know how this company is even still going. Awful to work for. Would be awful being a customer too.
Pros
You get paid
Cons
Barely
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Miserable job for miserable people
Call Centre Agent (Current Employee) - Preston, Lancashire - 31 January 2021
18 months working here and we are desperately looking for other work. No appreciation for going above and beyond while colleagues who do less hours and spend more time walking around get the praise. Little to no support for home working with kids in the house, expected to carry on as usual. Tenants are as fed up with the company as we are. Managers all in one big clique constantly making snide comments about staff and other managers. HR cant be trusted at all, nothing can be said in confidence here. Some staff take every type of call with no training while some are just taking one skill. Hate this place.
Pros
None
Cons
Everything
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Bitchiness
Admin Officer (Former Employee) - Bamber Bridge, Lancashire - 27 January 2021
Terrible place to work the worst place I have ever worked in!! I experienced two faced colleagues at their worst would not recommend anyone to work here. A lot of favouritism too!! Beware!!
Pros
Decent pay
Cons
Bitchiness
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Cliquey and hypocritical
Repairs Scheduler, Property Maintenance, Places (Former Employee) - Bamber Bridge, Lancashire - 3 January 2021
Constant monitoring of your time, SPIRIT values rammed down your throat and aggressive team leaders who have little management skills have created a culture whereby people do not feel valued or appreciated.
Pros
Nice people who deserve better treatment
Cons
Terrible management/favouritism
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Supposed to be people first (only applies if your a senior manager)
Place manager (Current Employee) - Preston, Lancashire - 6 November 2020
Supposed to put people first, the company is a joke, they’ve just announced 40+ staff in affordable housing are to lose their jobs in another restructure (the 3rd in 5 years) unless they want to take a £4K pay cut to become a neighbourhood assistant, those that remain get their patch size doubled, have to manage other staff and get lettings added as well, to say that the majority of people feel let down by this lot is an understatement. The director was quoted as saying that staff had previously been “cut into the bone” well now the same manager is carrying out an amputation! They have no compassion towards staff unless you earn megabucks, which is a shame because the lower management are really supportive, but they are likely for the chop too, whilst the senior team end up bloated with manager after manager,
Pros
Good supportive team managers
Cons
Constant restructures, pay freezes, and demoralisation
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Soul destroying
Joiner (Former Employee) - Preston, Lancashire - 3 September 2020
If your face fits you’ll do well but if want to progress in your career then work somewhere else It’s jobs for the boys plenty of jobs come up but there’s always someone’s mate ear marked for the job even though it’s advertised externally If you just want a wage and to never be noticed or appreciated with no prospects of advancement then PFP is perfect for you
Pros
Wages paid in bank every month
Cons
Clicky non progressive blame culture
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Management are useless
Dog’s body (Former Employee) - Midland - 22 July 2020
To say this company is run by clowns is unfair to clowns. The management are totally out of their depth, as it gets higher it gets worse to the point where you wondered how they manage to get dressed in a morning.
The HR staff to run concentration camps in WW2 and are so far up the managements backsides you can see their heads pop out when they open their mouths.
Pros
Good lads doing the actual work
Cons
Anyone not on the tools is useless
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